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Announcing Roy Group’s 2020 MacGregor Cup Recipient

At a time when many leaders, teams and organizations are emerging from a disorienting few months, Roy Group has found an opportunity to celebrate by announcing our 2020 recipient of the MacGregor Cup. The MacGregor Cup is inscribed with the…
July 22, 2020 by Roy Group
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The Value of Rich Feedback

When a chef creates a new dish, she samples it several times along the way to ensure it’s turning out the way she envisioned. This is a simple example of seeking and receiving feedback. When a teacher works with a student to improve his essay…
July 15, 2020 by Roy Group

It’s Time To Question Everything

This whole dilemma has exposed a lot of things that are not acceptable in our community, in our province, in the world. It is time for smart people to question everything, and really see if we can extract as much significant change from the…
June 15, 2020 by Roy Group

Readying And Steadying For Business Recovery

By Ian Chisholm This April, Douglas magazine reached out to Chiz for some wisdom around leading during the massively disruptive COVID-19 pandemic. With most businesses and non-profits finding their workflow, operations and sources of revenue…
April 22, 2020 by Roy Group

Communicating Clearly Through a Crisis

“In a time of crisis, it’s very important to communicate authentically and responsibly. And right now, organizations are really conflicted as to what is the right thing.” COVID has thrown everybody a curveball. As an organizational leader,…
March 20, 2020 by Roy Group

Making Some Meaning From COVID-19

By Ian Chisholm The last time I sensed such a global whisper of “what does this all mean?” was the afternoon of September 11, 2001. I say afternoon (not morning), because Anne-Marie and I were in Scotland at the time — four hours…
March 20, 2020 by Roy Group
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You Can Win From Anywhere: What Golf Taught Me About Leadership

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at the place we started and know that place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot I was reminded of this line from T.S. Eliot’s poem, Little Gidding, upon…
March 13, 2020 by Roy Group

Lessons From My Time In The Public Service: Hard truths born of lived experience

I was standing at a podium in front of a room full of people. My stomach was churning, my heart was pounding and the survival part of my brain was focused on getting off that stage. I had been in my new role as Road Ahead Champion for about…
February 11, 2020 by Roy Group

From Workaholic To Working Holistic: Ian Chisholm In Conversation

You’ve heard of Fuckup Nights? Of course you have. It’s vulnerable, it’s raw, it’s funny, it’s a gift of learning from someone else’s screw-ups. In Episode XLVII of Obstacle Course, our co-founder and president, Ian Chisholm,…
January 29, 2020 by Roy Group