Episodes

Join The Janus Oasis Community No matter where you work, adopting more asynchronous work instead of constant synchronous work can help you become more productive. Within the community, I can do live demos of different ways of using these skills and new tools. From a corporate strategy point of view, reassessing how your company uses synchronous versus asynchronous work can help you ease workload and become more efficient. This can also alleviate workload and Zoom fatigue.

Announcing plans for a community network built around the podcast The Janus Oasis. Now open: Join The Janus Oasis Community I bring together the people tasked with workplace transformation - the people who are trying to figure out hybrid/remote solutions, how to upskill their workforce, retain and attract employees, how to create and sustain employee engagement and advocacy. Whether you are a manager, a leader, a trainer, a coach, a DEI or change management consultant, a communications or HR p...

Join The Janus Oasis Community. John Espirian is a LinkedIn expert who is gifted in building relationships and community. He runs the most effective group I've ever been part of on LinkedIn and the doors are open again until he reaches 300 members. I'm one of 4 Canadians in the group (living in Canada anyway - Canadians are everywhere and there are many more in the group, along with many other nationalities). John created an interactive map so we can see where everyone is from. He also talks abo...

Join The Janus Oasis Community. In this series, Rob Baker is the only person I've never spoken to before. We connected after I read his book Personalization at Work and wrote a review. I've been watching him develop his consulting business - Tailored Thinking and launch the Job Canvas, a method of making job descriptions more interactive and dynamic. I was pleased that one of the first things he said to me was that I build relationships really well online. Really cool someone I've never met befo...

Join The Janus Oasis Community. I've known Darroch Crewe for 19 years - he was in training and HR when I was working in customer service. Darroch was the first person to mention to me the value of my operations experience in the context of consulting. I was getting bored with sales and was exploring change management. He's always been thoughtful and empathetic, not to mention generous. Darroch shares with us his story of moving from a tiny Toronto condo back to his home in Newfoundland during ...

Join The Janus Oasis Community. Last year I told the story of a job interview gone wrong. The meeting was not going well and the fire alarm going off in the middle of it was the death nail in that opportunity. Or so I thought. Because I was able to tell a joke to break the ice, I made the interviewer laugh and I got the job. There was no fire lol. Anne Comer was not in that interview - she was the second interview and final decision maker. In fact, she didn't know the story until I wrote it on ...

Join The Janus Oasis Community. Originally recorded in January 2022, I held this episode so I could build a series including other people I used to work with. Kendra Foerster also took her photography/videography business full-time and had to build a fabulous new website www.portraitsbykendra.ca. Kendra and Kerry Anne Rothe of Dock 45 Inc. were part of the communications team I worked with when I starred in a series of corporate change management videos designed to encourage staff to use a newl...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Shelley Brown is a speaker, an author, artist and mindfulness educator. She also has worked remotely since the early 2000's. Back then, there was not much technology to support hybrid/remote so you know immediately she's tenacious and creative. Shelley is passionate about engaging and retaining employees by fostering a sense of belonging. We talk about her W.E.I.R.D philosophy - turning it from a label into a way of be...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Workloads have skyrocketed around the world and it's the same for managers but they also have additional emotional labour. Are we expecting too much from managers? Mari Williams and I discuss trauma-led leadership, coaching, therapy and wonderfully private garden sheds designed for deep work...and magic. Mari Williams The Mind Architect ™ | LinkedIn https://www.amazon.ca/Begins-You-Transform-alternative-leader/dp/19137...