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11Aug2022

Job Promotions; a cautionary tale

  • By Ian Bradley
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The call came out of the blue from the secretary of a psychiatric director of a large and prestigious teaching hospital. The director wanted to see if I would be interested in applying for the recently vacated position of Chief Psychologist. Until then, I had been working in a small CBT unit of what once
16Jun2022

Good Work and Life Habits: sustaining them

  • By Ian Bradley
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In my previous post, I discussed various ways to develop new behavioural habits. The question is: how do we sustain them? Put that new habit into a larger category: It is important to put daily tasks, especially newly developed habits, into mental categories that reflect your basic values. In other words, you’re not just avoiding
14Jun2022

Good Work and Life Habits; steps to development

  • By Ian Bradley
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Good habits are great. They function like automatic algorithms that silently work in the background to help us engage in adaptive behaviour. “Silently” is key. That is, without conscious thought or deliberate effort, we can effortlessly go to the gym, benefit from regular sleep and eat healthily. Automatically buckling the seat belt of your car
24Feb2021

Procrastination: why it doesn’t work.

  • By Ian Bradley
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People who come to my office to complain about procrastination invariably get it wrong.   The problem is not the 11th hour mad dash to pull an all-nighter to finish the report, nor is it the lost opportunity cost that would have accrued if adequate time and resources had been devoted to the task. It’s not
30Apr2020

The Bee Gees are back!

  • By Ian Bradley
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Just before nodding off to sleep last night my wife turned over and asked me: “are you happy?” As with most men hearing this question, instant alarm bells went off.  With later elaboration, what she really meant was, now during this weird, self-isolating, social-distancing Covid 19 time, was I happy?   It got me thinking
20Apr2020

Developing New Habits

  • By Ian Bradley
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Good habits are great, they function like automatic algorithms that silently function in the background to help us engage in adaptive behaviour. Habits can not only propel us to good things that they do so automatically and without highly conscious and deliberate thought thus freeing our brains to do more complex things. Automatically buckling the
17Apr2019

Rewards at work: a cautionary tale

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I had the recent privilege of consulting to a company that specializes in employee recognition- the tangible kind of recognition where good performance is rewarded with personalized mugs, plaques or any number of concrete goodies from their expansive inventory. Their business is going well partially because many companies don’t take the time to properly evaluate
01Jan2019

Family Business Succession: my experience

  • By Ian Bradley
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In my work with family businesses, I find that succession planning is like taxes- it’s painful to do but the consequences of a failure to act are worse.   The pain is related to the myriad complexity of financial, legal and tax succession considerations but what is even more daunting to family members are the
30Aug2018

Peak Performance with Goal Setting

  • By Ian Bradley
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In my practice as a executive coach in Montreal, I am often confronted by clients who criticize themselves for lack of organizational skills.   “Why can’t I get this done?” or “I’m always behind”  and  “my to-do list never gets accomplished! “ are often common expressions of this malaise.   There are many excellent books
03Feb2016

Medical Leaves and Mustard Plasters (con’t)

  • By Ian Bradley
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In my previous post, I made the point that although the family physician provides the official “time-off-work-for stress” letter, the principal decision-maker is the patient. I argued that most workers under stress debate the pro’s and con’s of setting the medical leave in motion very much like we all did as children when awakening with
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