Lorna's Blog
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.
The Other Name for Leadership
There are numerous definitions of leadership. You can ask a dozen different people and get a dozen different answers– everything from being the head of a company, organization or country, to a leader is someone who makes things better for everyone through their...
Renew Your Mind for Real Transformation
Decorations are down and the poinsettia is looking more like Charlie’s Brown’s Christmas tree than it did in all its glory when I first brought it home in early December. In fact Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree probably looks better than my poinsettia right about now....
Becoming World-Class
The eyes of the world are on Toronto for the next several days as we host the Pan Am Games. Despite the grumbling of the locals about the traffic congestion headaches they have caused, this is a spectacle only to be rivalled by the Olympics themselves. We have been...
When do you think?
With today’s hectic pace of life it is often difficult to keep up. Our brains frequently feel like they are going to explode with the massive amounts of information bombarding us. We suffer from over stimulation unlike any generation before us. We have cell phones...
Your imagination muscle
Imagination is defined as the act of forming a mental picture of something that is not present to the sense or has never been completely perceived in reality. Everything around us started as an idea stemming from someone’s imagination. Think about the computer, cell...