Answer: They were all at the Royal Agricultural Show in Toronto today! I took the day off to take the family to The Royal – as its known. This is an annual agricultural extravaganza that has now become the biggest in North America. The kids love the day and last year we came across a stall selling hermit crabs! I guess if you cannot take home a pig a hermit… Read More »What Do Cows, Pigs, Horses & Hermit Crabs Have in Common?
These last 3 days have been a great opportunity to stop for a moment and take the time to check where I am heading with my business, – and beyond that my life – my personal brand. I am on a retreat with a great group of like minded coaches with our facilittator / coach Chris Barrow and the ideas and input we all give each other is just priceless.… Read More »Review, Revise, Refine
The next 60 hours are being spent at a great learning retreat the Kingbridge Centre, just north of Toronto with half a dozen like minded coaches/consultants who are here with Chris Barrow our facilitator and coach for the next 3 days and he is blogging about the days as well. Last nights conversation really did turn a tad insane – see Chris' summary of it here As for this bog… Read More »Leave Your Ego Here
We had a great Halloween, the kids enjoyed the whole evening, we 'scared' lots of the locals with the haunted house and the whole neighbourhood turned out to view each others creations and generally mix and mingle.
Growing up in the UK Halloween was a big NON-event, although my Dad tells me that over the last few years the trick or treaters have started to come out with greater conviction. Here in North America of course its huge! A I am one of the biggest kids out there. We have local neighbourhood Scariest House and Best Carved Pumpkin competitions, with funds going to a charity and a… Read More »Happy Halloween
William Arruda the founder of Reach was interviewed this week for Time magazine about personal branding and specifically about the unique 360 Reach assessment that all of the Reach trained personal brand strategists use with thier clients. It is a well written article and the journalist had gone to a number of sources to get input and perspective – she seemd to be living up to her brand skills that… Read More »Personal Branding Hits Time Magazine
On calling a potential coporate client the other day I was greeted with what now seems to be the standard automated reception. "Thank you for calling XYZ Company, please listen carefully to ALL the options before selecting. 1. If you know the extension number of the person you are calling enter it NOW. Does that mean I do not have to wait for all the options then? ……….I guess so.… Read More »Is Your Message Clear?
People have been asking how I felt about the results and feedback from my own 360. To be honest I felt really good, there were a few home truths, but fair comments based on where my head is at and it was a great exercise to do again with the new version of the tool. To see my results click here Equally interesting was the comparison of my results now… Read More »Personal Branding Transparency?
I was one of the speakers today at the Professional Women's Symposium Association in Toronto and was very warmly received by an enthusiastic group of professionals. It was interesting to hear about some of the many challenges that women face, particularly in the professionals and how many of them had overcome huge obstacles to build their careers. The theme for the day was 'Defining Professionalism for Yourself' so many of… Read More »Women Being On Brand
The technology industry in Canada is booming – its now 2nd only to Silicon Valley in the world! This was one of the messages I heard at the Wired Woman meeting this week from Mia Wedgbury the President of a specialist technology PR firm – High Road Communications – a firm she started just 10 years ago at the age of 29. Mia jokingly commented on the fact that I… Read More »The Token Male