by Stan Peake | Nov 5, 2016 | Business, Culture, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development
“This changes everything!” “I can’t wait to get back to work!” “When can we get started?!” As a business and performance coach, I LOVE the energy and newfound enthusiasm that clients find after a transformative session, after they are reminded and re-energized with...
by Stan Peake | Oct 14, 2016 | Business, Culture, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development
I write this post both as a resource for my business coaching clients looking to expand their teams, but also to the 2 different laid off workers support groups I help, so that the candidates (real people with mortgages, bills, children, and dreams) might ‘show...
by Stan Peake | Jun 25, 2016 | Culture, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development
Losing sucks. I don’t want to spend time with anyone who enjoys losing, and I can’t say I would want to spend much time with someone who tolerates losing either. Failing, losing, sucking at something (be it golf, tennis, or baking; all of which I do suck at) – I hate...
by Stan Peake | Jun 16, 2016 | Business, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sales
We’ve all heard the term ‘elevator pitch’. Just 17 years ago, Tom Peters described the ‘elevator spiel’ as your 2-minute opportunity to pitch your company’s CEO on why your project matters as you rode to the top floor. By 2015, according to Business News Daily that...
by Stan Peake | May 25, 2016 | Business, Personal Development, Professional Development
Have you ever felt that you’d be lost without your current job? Have you ever heard yourself say “this is all I’ve ever been good at?” I hear those sentiments a lot, especially in today’s tough economic times. The great news, and the hope, that I have to share today;...
by Stan Peake | May 17, 2016 | Business, Finance, Leadership, Professional Development
It’s no secret in late May, 2016 that Calgary’s, Alberta’s, and even Canada’s economy is not doing all that well. Beyond typical ‘feast or famine’ economic cycles that accompany a resource-based economy like Alberta’s, this is as bad as we’ve seen it in more...
