Colin Christensen
How I Bounced Back From Losing $4,500,000
It is never fun to lose money The only thing worse than losing all your money is losing all of other people's money. TL;DR Sometimes...
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Colin Christensen
The Pivot
Several years ago, after years of entrepreneurship, I had to decide between a business I wanted to build into a franchise and a franchise...
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Your Best Year Ever
It's natural at this time of year to make plans for the year ahead. What are you planning with the few days heading into the new year?...
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Double Your Revenue - As Often As You Like
There are only three ways to increase sales revenue. More clients, more spent per client, more frequency of the client buying. The power...
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Low Resolution vs. High Resolution
I have really been enjoying listening to videos and podcasts lately by Jordan B Peterson. He is in the limelight right now for risking...
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Are Degrees Dead?
After almost a decade recruiting in the IT industry, I can say I always look for competency over a relevant degree: Have they done the...
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What Employees Want
It's not about the money When I speak with clients about how to improve employee retention or attract better candidates to their roles,...
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Balancing the 7Fs of Life
There is always talk on priorities. The truth is, as any one of us, there are at least 7 areas we need to prioritize. Zig Ziglar has the...
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Investors, Bankers, Dragons and Sharks
Investors, Bankers, Dragons and Sharks (IBDS) all ask similar questions Why are those specific questions so important? They know that...
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Vision, Mission, Values and Goals
There are many definitions of Vision, Mission, Values and Goals. Here is an analogy we use on how they all fit together. I'm not a huge...
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Improve Your Business Experience
This is one of the tag lines for our business and - I'd argue - descriptive of what you are trying to do right now. We all get into...
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Engagement or Implosion: Which Worker Path Are You On?
For single people with commitment issues, there’s no scarier word than “engagement”. But for managers and business owners with an eye on...
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The Buckets Exercise
A couple of years ago, I read a book called "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and...
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A Paycheque is Not A Retention Strategy
Have you ever heard someone say "I pay them, shouldn't that be enough?!" This is still the mentality of some, if you can believe it. Mind...
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Making Leadership Suck Less
Once a business or a team starts on a negative spiral, it can be difficult to turn the momentum around. I'm here to encourage you: It can...
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Healthy Organizations are Better
“I'm not lookin' for the best players... I'm lookin' for the right players." -- Herb Brooks, the coach of the 1980 US Men's Olympic Gold...
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Hiring for Trades
Of all the challenges the economy in Alberta brings, finding electricians, pipetrades, welders, carpenters, heavy equipment techs, rig...
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Top 10 Must Read Books
There are no shortage of great books to read. Typically I used to read between 1-2 a month now I crank out several a month...
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Reach the Candidates you want
I had a conversation the other day with a client. He asked me about a company who had reached out to him to sell him the latest version...
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Turning Traditional Hiring on its head
A little while ago I coauthored an ebook, "The Golden Egg of Strategic Recruitment". It is a call to the world that the hiring landscape...
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