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Deri’s blogs and video posts include emerging information, tools, tips, and strategies for living a positive, mentally-healthy life – at work and beyond!
Vulnerability, Love, and Work
Vulnerability, Love, and Work It?s Feburary; the month of Love! What does Love have to do with the workplace? Well, everything I believe! (Maybe not in the way you are thinking?hang in there.) As a Speaker, Trainer and Human Resources expert, I live and breathe healthy workplaces. I believe our workplaces reflect our homes and…
Beat the Workplace Winter Blues
Ten Tips to Beat the Winter Blues in the Workplace Winnipeggers are a hearty bunch to survive our winters, but when late January rolls around, many people start to feel the blues with so much white stuff around ? especially at work. Here are the top 10 tips to help beat the blues in winter…
Wake Up to Your Habits!
We all have habits ? how we move, the way we think, how we associate feelings. We have preferences for what we do. You can learn to notice and potentially change some of these habit patterns by using quick strategies?which over time, can help you develop new habits. In the work that I do with…
Sweet Caroline: On Optimism and Joy
?I?m a bit of a troublemaker? she said, eyes sparking, after she caught my eye and sauntered over to where I was seated with my mother. ?I can tell?, I told her?.?and good for you!!? ?Well, you have to be a troublemaker when you?re 98, you know?, she said??and I am going to live to…
Frogs, Wolves and Hope
Our family just finished a month?s vacation at a cottage in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba. It was ? unquestionably ? one of our very best family vacations. There are a number of reasons for this (some you can likely guess?we were all more relaxed since we had no schedule what-so-ever, we read more, the only…
The Hitchhiker
?I have a lump on my leg?, I told my friend. I could barely say it at first?although as time went on it got easier to say. I could not help but notice the concerned look that developed on the faces of everyone I told when I used the word ?lump? to describe it. That?s…
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Nurture the First Follower
What is a leader?s role? To inspire, ignite, engage?and to start a movement!! The ?movement? is whatever the organization wants to mobilize it?s human resources around?be it related to culture, team building, change, quality, or customer service. I watched this video on Ted recently and found it very thought-provoking. And, fun!! Are you nurturing the…
Play to your Strengths!
In my early years? report cards there was a theme; ?okay student? talks too much?. It was true! I was a social animal?well, at the very least, I seemed to be unable to control my need to interact with people around me. It wasn?t until years later, that I realized I was an Extrovert. I…