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...
Colin Christensen
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...
Colin Christensen
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...
Colin Christensen
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,...
Colin Christensen
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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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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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...
Colin Christensen
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...
Colin Christensen
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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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...
Colin Christensen
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...
Colin Christensen
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...
Colin Christensen
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...
Colin Christensen
Culture eats Sandy for Breakfast
The title is a play on one of my favourite quotes, "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast", often attributed to Peter Drucker Hurricane...
Colin Christensen
What Gasoline Teaches us about the cost of a bad hire
A funny thing happened to me today. I can be pretty handy at times - something my wife loves about me. Today I exercised a little of that...