Next Wednesday January 23 marks a very special day for me – exactly five years ago on this date, my very first column for The Globe & Mail published that morning. In How to be the boss when your co-workers are your friends, I laid out seven steps to ease this difficult transition. I’ll be honest, this was (and still is) a very exciting day for me! To be invited to contribute as a thought-leader for one of Canada’s most respected and widely-circulated national newspapers is a huge honour. Not to mention a validation of the leadership development work I have been doing for so many years.
Back then, I was a contributing columnist to The Globe’s Leadership Lab series, published primarily online, but also occasionally in their print edition. Today, five years later, I write a regular column in their Report on Business print edition, every four weeks on Mondays, under the loose banner of “Leadership Matters”.
Thank you The Globe & Mail, I am gratified to be amongst the ranks of your respected writers.
Notable columns
My most popular column ever was Four things millennials hate about you, garnering more than 50,000 views, over 4,000 “direct” shares, and comments and re-tweets numbering in the thousands in just three days. It was my first taste of “going viral” and while pretty exciting, was also a little scary!
And here are links to my last five columns:
- How Gen Zers differ from millennials in the workplace
- Work-life balance is a myth
- Five ways to make “flexible work” actually work
- Five strategies to help ensure top performers don’t jump ship
- Unintentional behaviours may be sending co-workers signals you are untrustworthy
If you’re looking for something specific, all my past columns for The Globe are archived in the Article Archives.