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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…
May 30, 2022 by Roy Group
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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…
May 5, 2022 by Roy Group

The Journey

By Jared Smith Hang on, because the path to grow your business can be fraught with peril. This is just not a journey for the weak of heart. Last August, my executive team met with Roy Group for a two-day retreat. The purpose was to focus…
April 12, 2013 by Roy Group
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Conduct: Culture or Character?

By Mark Bell Recently, for whatever reason, I have been acutely tuned into and moved by small but big acts of compassion from people who have put themselves at the heart of a situation and offered their best to lead. These seem to be individuals…
March 1, 2013 by Roy Group
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Missed Opportunity: A Coaching Approach to Conflict

By Bradley Chisholm I think it is only human to look back on past experiences and feel regret about missed opportunities. I am pretty hard on myself, so I feel this way at times. I have also been able to see a common thread that binds many…
February 1, 2013 by Roy Group
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Practice: Letting Go Is Hard to Do – Shifting your professional practice to a practice of leadership

By Bradley Chisholm Imagine walking into the dressing room of the Team Canada Olympic hockey team, dragging Sidney Crosby out to the luge track, throwing him onto a sled and expecting him to win gold. We would never do it. We would never…
December 1, 2012 by Roy Group
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Belief: A Lesson from a Premier

By Bradley Chisholm A client recently asked me to help him ‘hone his listening skills’ – an action item from a tough 360 feedback report. I didn’t like this assignment; it felt superficial for some reason. Paying attention, eye contact,…
September 1, 2012 by Roy Group
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Mastery in Stereo

By Bradley Chisholm My business partner graciously arranged for my wife and I to take in a Lyle Lovett show in Victoria. There were no visual distractions, no opening band and no gimics. After an 8 word introduction on the microphone - Lyle…
July 29, 2012 by Roy Group
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Forcing It: Does It Always Have to Be Difficult?

By Bradley Chisholm I love watching the Olympics – mastery, commitment and human potential on international display.  It was not the typical events that caught my attention this year, however.  I watched the Women’s Canoe Slalom –…
July 1, 2012 by Roy Group

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