Lorna's Blog
How to Delegate More Effectively and Increase Your Productivity
Delegation is one of the most important skills any leader, from CEO down to shop floor manager, can master. Unfortunately it is one of the more difficult skills to learn. You need to know how to delegate. You need to know when to delegate and you need to know how to...
Delegation – How To Stop Doing and Start Leading
You’ve made a difficult discovery - there's not enough time left at the end of the day no matter how much you work. And of course, your bucket list of things for you to accomplish never gets shorter either. Anytime you wish your days were longer, it's probably a sign...
The Benefits of Coaching: 9 Ways It Makes Your Organization Excel
Does your business need a boost? Is there a lack of good communication or does your company's culture need uplifting? Leadership coaching may well help get things back on track. This type of training helps employees develop their leadership skills which in turn helps...
Strategic Change Management: Leading Change in Your Organization
Managing change in an organization is a tricky process. Our culture and our working practices are often deeply embedded into our organizational DNA. We are all creatures of habit. We like what we like. We have a routine that we are comfortable with and we avoid change...
The Secret is Out: Organizations That Grow Leaders Grow
Leaders are responsible for allocating company resources. These resources include money, people and other resources. However, the most important resource is people. Organizations with leadership development programs for their people can't help but grow. Outstanding...
Leaders Do the Difficult Work of Keeping It Simple
A Medieval English philosopher and excommunicated Franciscan friar can help you markedly with your leadership communication today. William of Ockham (1295-1349) is credited with the concept of Occam's razor, a heuristic that is used in many disciplines but somewhat...
Successful Strategies For Building A High Performance Team
I have found that there are many strategies leaders and business owners use to build their team that don't get them the high performance team they are looking for. Sometimes it is because they do not know any other way. Other times it just is because they are treating...
The Art of Leadership is Found in the Application
Virtually everyone, or just about everyone seeks to better understand the art of leadership. Many claim it as a title or position. It is clearly defined by a few, and yet often exercised by the unheralded. In fact, although we believe we know a lot about leadership;...
Exceeding Expectations
Durham Executive Coach Exceeds Expectations at International Conference Ajax, ON: Executive coach Lorna Weston-Smyth recently received two awards including Overall JMT DNA Culture Award, and the Culture Award for Exceeding Expectations at the International Maxwell...
The way you play the GAME is how you win the GAME
Things that used to take a generation to change are now happening in the blink of an eye. So, how do you keep up with this ever-increasing pace of change? You do it by increasing your capacity for growth.