Amplifying Leadership

Reviewing and updating a business vision and mission statements, as well as core values, is very important especially if changes have been made within the business. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara shares the renewed Vision statement, Mission statement and new core value that will be added to Twin Life Coaching & Business Services (including Amplifying Leadership). Why renewed statements?...

From going from Individual Contributor to Leader, to understanding leaders can't do it all, this episode is all about delegation. Join Tara and a diverse leader with various leadership experiences, now a Career Coach & Work-Life Balance Strategist, as they discuss why delegation is a key ingredient for leaders. This engaging conversation covers everything from how delegation can create trust,...

You are human. This means that we, even as leaders, make mistakes or things go wrong. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara reviews how we need to own our mistakes and failures, review them in order to understand what happened, then create the actions to make necessary changes. Enjoy this short tip.

Are you a single parent trying to balance leadership or even owning your own business? Tara and Natalie McCabe, now a Parent Coach who has been a business owner while a single parent, discuss the need for self-care with these roles. Self-care goes beyond eating well and exercise as well, but about saying no to asking for support when you need it. Learn some great scheduling tips, how to balance th...

Budget season can be stressful. However, you can get through it and keep some of the things you want too. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara provides a few handy tips around budget season and when you are asked to reduce your budget as well. Let's be as prepared as possible to reduce your stress and time working on revising your budget. Remember, Leadership Matters!

Some people don't want to retire or can even afford to. How do leaders handle different ages within their teams? Join Tara and Britt-Mari Sykes, founder of Canvas Career Counselling, as they discuss leading multi-generational teams. Why we need to self-reflect as leaders often, to determine gaps or our style when it comes to ageism in the workforce. We also cover looking at ageism through an inclu...

Have you ever had that supervisor or manager who did not lead by example? In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara shares a story of bad leadership and why she wants to ensure those who are newer to leadership or want to be leaders, have the proper training and skills to be the leaders everyone wants to follow. For more information on the Rise To Leadership events (now posted) and program (program inf...

Did you know that stories can help build your brand as a leader and for your business? In this guest episode, Chirag Nijjer, a leading expert in simplifying complex marketing concepts into practical advice speaks with Tara about our brands and our stories. They cover how telling stories not only creates trust and credibility, but helps others understand why you or your comapny are unique compared...

We all know many of the Unspoken Rules of Leadership, but we don't always lead with them. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara covers a handful of these rules and why they are important. Let's continually develop our leadership skills together.

In this guest episode Tara is joined by Lauren Bayne, a Personal Brand Creative Director, as they discuss the importance of personal branding as a leader. They delve into using our unique and creative minds to stand out with our brand as leaders. Why doing things differently then others is important, and tips to get started or to update our old brand. Enjoy!

Leaders, you know you need to fully understand what your organization or employees do in order to grow, learn and develop your team. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara digs into the idea of shadowing employees and how it can be very helpful in growing as a leader. She provide tips on how to make shadow days effective as well. Remember, Leadership Matters!

Join Tara and Ken Rusk, a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and blue-collar advocate showing that there’s no degree required for comfort, peace, and freedom in an engaging conversation about vision. Ken covers how you can use your vision to create the path to get you there. Knowing the purpose or why behind it, to tips to help leaders overcome those barriers that could stop us from achieving our...

We need to ensure that we do not only look at what our employees do correctly, their challenges or actions, but also ours. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, we uncover why leaders need to do self-reflection as well as a way to get started and questions to ask yourself. It's time to do your own self-review and create actions to be an even better leader tomorrow.

Join Tara and Chelsea Ryckis, an entrepreneur and award-winning Founder and President of Ethos Benefits, as they discuss toxic positivity. They cover what this is, how inconsistent and unfair practices feed toxic workplaces, promoting healthy workplaces through gaining feedback to understand the needs of the organization. We also cover the importance of leaders development too. Enjoy!

"It wasn't me, it was her fault." If you have heard that in your workplace, that is a blame game. Leaders need to understand that blaming other people is normally not the best way to deal with errors, failures or issues. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, she covers why blaming people is not always the answer and what to potentially blame instead. Enjoy!

Building a workplace culture can be challenging. In this episode, join Tara and Kristin Quattlebaum, who helps emerging and existing leaders develop their intuition, as we talk about culture and change. We cover tips that Kristin learned in the past, asking what you want as a leader and being aligned with your position, finding employees who are a culture fit through reviewing the position and the...

Do you and your team share your wins to help each other out? What about sharing lessons learned, not just from projects, but from day-to-day work? In this Tip Thursday with Tara, we uncover some ways and reasons why, we should share our wins and even those lessons learned. And yes leaders, that means you too! Enjoy the episode!

Tara is welcoming back a previous guest, Richard Flint who is an international speaker, author and the CEO of Flint Inc. In this informative episode we uncover what Lead, Leader, and Leading mean, why work ethics, leading change and the need for clear communication are vital. We then get into who are Sponges, Spectators, and Camels and what it means as a leader.

Sometimes it is fine to have an awkward silence in meetings or in 1:1s. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara digs into why the awkward silence is key in being creative, or allowing space for those who need time to process their ideas.

Join Tara and guest Ruchi Pinniger, Founder and CEO of Watch Her Prosper®, as they talk financials and numbers. They discuss how understanding the financials is not only a mindset shift if you are fearful or just don't want to know, to being confident in understanding what you need to know. Ruchi shares many tips on being comfortable around the numbers, as well as cost saving tips, without having...

In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara talks about how to be a great leader when change happens, whether it be good changes or negative changes. You can inspire and support employees for much better change management. Enjoy the tips!

Join Tara and guest Britt-Mari Sykes, owner and career consultant at Canvas Career Counselling. In this episode they touch on stress and burnout for leaders and their teams. Making sure we bring the topic to the table, creating awareness around it, and leading by example. They discuss stress versus burnout and the signs (physical, emotional, and cognitive) leaders should look out for, and those si...

Is your calendar full and you just can't seem to get things done? Need a few tips to better manage your calendar and your time? Join Tara in this Tip Thursday where she unveils some tips to help you better manage your calendar so you can get done what you need to...and be there for employees too! Enjoy!

Join Tara and Stan Gibson, a Corporate Executive turned Author, Speaker, Leadership Consultant and Coach, as they talk about Productivity and Time Management. Touching on self-reflection including strengths to help build productivity and time management. We discuss his Red, Yellow, Green productivity methods, to why scheduling can help make you more efficient and effective. This conversation is fu...

Whether as a leader you bring it in or others bring it in, in a culture of wellness, Candy bowls are not helping. In this Tip Thursday With Tara, Tara goes through why a culture that has a focus on wellness as well, should not include the unhealthy snacks or candy bowls. Enjoy the episode!