Margaret Redmond, the very recently retired CEO of Assiniboine Park Conservancy, was awarded the inaugural Padraig...
Margaret Redmond Receives 2023 Padraig Leadership Award
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Leadership
Do You Notice the Sound of Silence?
How comfortable are you with silence in a conversation? How common is it for you? If you’ve grown up in North American...
What kind of leader do you want to be?
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how...
Want better ideas? Ask better questions
If you're like most of us in the 21st Century, you're probably looking to be innovative and effective. You, or people...
Are you living in a constant state of urgency?
Busyness has become an epidemic of our time. You may have even noticed, it’s actually been glamorized in certain...
Six ideas for successfully onboarding new employees
We're lucky people here at Padraig. We get to work closely with some of the most amazing leaders and leadership teams...
How to be an exceptional mentor
I sometimes get asked, “What’s the difference between a coach and a mentor?” My answer is usually something along the...
5 daily habits of effective leaders
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”– Will Durant paraphrasing Aristotle...
When your toughest conversations are with yourself
We’ve written a fair bit and worked with a lot of organizations around Essential Conversations — our workshop program...
How great leaders get beyond their to-do list
Remember that time when smartphones weren’t a thing? When we would go home at the end of the day and check our...
When organizations pay to coach their leaders – what’s the ROI of Executive Coaching?
What’s the real ROI of Executive Coaching? You know, we often get questions from senior leaders in organizations like…...
What exactly is executive coaching – and could it be right for you?
It’s pretty much the standard question in our culture when meeting someone for the first time – “So, what do you do?”...