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Your Top 7 Questions Answered About Team Retreats
Your life is a spinning circus. The bank website wouldn’t let you log in this morning, you lost an hour on the phone troubleshooting the new CRM, and a colleague from way back emailed to say they just saw your teenager on YouTube streaming…

Conversations With Roy: The Three Keys to Unlocking Exponential Impact
Every now and then, a leader’s candid insight makes our hearts skip a beat. This month, we bring you an in-depth conversation with Margo Long, one of the most perceptive and unguarded humans we know. (She’s also ultra-competent, having steered…

4 Reasons Why You Need a Chief of Staff
Back in January, Chiz noticed a red-hot thread running through his conversations with other leaders: burnout.
People were arriving back at their desks feeling even more drained than before the holidays began. Nobody was ready to return. Nobody…
Photo by Dave Contreras on Unsplash Five Tips For Showing Up As Your Finest Self
It takes practice to occupy the ground well.
Practice underpins our why. When people embed the tools and practices we teach, and commit to learning from their application, they make progress toward mastery of their conduct — a prerequisite…

Conversations With Roy: Love Your People. Lead With Purpose.
We know exceptional leadership when we see it. And in the coming months, we’re inviting the voices of more exceptional leaders onto our blog, to share what they think is important to focus on now.
In this edition of Conversations with Roy,…

The Way You Choose To Conduct Yourself When Your World Burns
It was mid-July when the fires started in our part of the province.
We live near Vernon, in central British Columbia. Prime wildfire territory: semi-desert, low precipitation, high summer temperatures.
As we live in a more rural area,…

Steps To Building A Coaching Culture
There’s a lot of talk about the shift toward coaching cultures in organizations. This is a good thing. Roy Group has been ready for this for a long time. But what does “a coaching approach” really mean?
Our definition of coaching…

Start. Again. A Practice Of Accountability
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By Ian Chisholm
If you’ve known me for any length of time, you’ll know I like the idea of new starts. I like early mornings. I like September for the new start it represents. I like January for the same…

When Your Chief Of Staff Passes The Baton
Formerly titled “What is it time for? Continuing the evolution,” this post originally took the form of a personal letter from our then Chief of Staff, Jonny Schwartz, to the whole Roy Group team. Jonny wrote his letter early in the summer…
