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How I Learned To Bake Bread With A New Set Of Tools (Or: Exploring My Dread Of Virtual Learning)

By Donna Horn Great bakers bake great bread. That’s one of Robert Henderson’s lines. It means even when you’ve learned your craft, you keep honing and advancing and growing in mastery. You don’t worry about “being great”. All…

How to Listen Like a Leader…Not a Know-It-All (and other great tips on how to earn the title of “Mentor”)

What qualities do we look for in a leader? What does it mean to create good in the world? Why is Mentor such a powerful word, and why do we treat it as a gift? What is it that jumps us to judgment instead of truly seeing the layered, gifted,…
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Why Would Anyone Write A Book?

By Ian Chisholm I remember very clearly the moment when I first understood why someone would want to write a book. I was sitting in the audience at a lecture given by Dr. Gabor Maté at the University of Victoria. He had just finished writing…
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Bend An Ear, But Don’t Bend The Truth: A Critical Look At Storytelling In The Nonprofit Sector

By Iain Duncan Nonprofit storytelling is broken. It no longer tells the truth, and I think it might be my fault. I think it might be yours, too. It is both broken AND our fault because of how we as an audience engage with the complex…
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What Nature Can Teach Business About Strategy In The Face of Big Change

By Anne-Marie Daniel I was arriving late to a Roy Group strategy session. Cozy and small, our session was situated in a fishing hut by the beach in Port Renfrew. I found myself wanting to get my head in the game, but I was feeling overwhelmed…

The High Cost Of Avoiding Conflict: Six Tips For Handling Disharmony

By Anne-Marie Daniel A few years ago, the executive director of a well-known social impact organization called me for a coaching session. This individual had received an email from a loyal volunteer of 20 years who was quite upset about recent…
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Five Rules For Running Big Rapids

By Heather Lehmann You’re paddling the Kicking Horse close to the BC border. Group of 30. Things change quickly up here: Class III, IV rapids around every bend. Sometimes you have to eddy out and discuss how to approach the next set. Now…

Critical Traction In Culture

Leadership development is an investment—and you want to trust that your investment will pay dividends. Knowing that decision-makers are actively engaged in researching their options, Roy Group is producing a series of case studies to share…
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Roy Group Call To Action

Don't Underestimate Just How Much the World Needs Us For everyone at Roy Group, Christmas 2020 feels a bit like the break after a first period of a hockey game. We sense we are 1/3 of our way into this challenge and that there are 2/3 of this…

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