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The Problem With Webinars

Anne Day | Posted 04.06.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Customer Following, Company of Women, Performance, Hard Sell, Training, Webinars, How to Give a Webinar, Tips for Webinars, Business Webinars to Follow, Business Webinars, Canada Business News
Anne Day

Recently I signed up for and have listened to several business webinars. I don't personally give webinars, but as someone who has started taking them, I do have a few observations to share.

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Don't Micromanage Your Staff, Coach Them

Dr. Curtis L. Odom | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Leadership, Executive Coaching, Performance, Life Coaching, Micro-Managing Business, Mentorship in Business, Micro-Managing, Mentoring Your Staff, How to Mentor Staff, Canada Business News
Dr. Curtis L. Odom

If you want performance out of your people it is time that you start coaching them. Coaching is a balance between art and science. You do not want to appear that you are micro-managing your people, but you do not want to leave them in the wilderness.

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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Coming To Vancouver

Nikolas Badminton | Posted 03.13.2013 | Canada
Read More: Theatre, Performance Art, Dance, Music, Vancouver, Performance, Push Festival Vancouver, Push Festival, Vancouver Events, Vancouver-Arts, Canada News
Nikolas Badminton

The PuSh Festival that runs from Jan. 15 to Feb. 3, 2013 bolsters the performing arts scene in Vancouver every year. It's an amazing festival filled with theatre, dance, multimedia and music that is held at venues in and around the city.

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Why Performance Reviews Are a Sham

Dr. Curtis L. Odom | Posted 03.13.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Succession Planning, Goal Setting, Performance, End of Year Performance Management, End of Year Review, Performance Management, Canada Business News
Dr. Curtis L. Odom

It was just that time of year again and everyone was dreading it. No, I am not talking about the recent holiday shopping madness, the traffic, the congestion or the lines. I am talking about end of year performance management.

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A Crash Course on Musical Transposition

Penny Will | Posted 11.22.2012 | Canada
Read More: Learning and Instrument, Music Education, Choosing a Key, Airplanes, Music, Composition, Performance, Arranging, Seating on a Plane, Music Transposing, Transposing, Canada News
Penny Will

Transposition is a musical term for moving notes higher or lower to change key. So why do arrangers transpose? Why not keep everything in it's original key and for that matter why don't composers always write in C, as it has no flats or sharps? Choosing the key of a piece is somewhat like choosing a seat in an airplane. Though all the seats are sort of the same, everyone has preferences, for various reasons.

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An Illuminating Lunch with Luminato's Artistic Director

Mary Warner | Posted 08.08.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Festival, Art, Opera, Installation, Luminato, Dance, Performance, Toronto, Toronto Nightlife, Music, Toronto Lifestyle, Canada Living News
Mary Warner

Jorn Weisbrodt, the new artistic director for Luminato, which runs from June 8 until June 17, sat down with me for lunch. As a new Torontonian, Jorn had almost as many questions for me as I did for him, but somehow, I left wondering more and more about this great city we live in, and what will happen when Luminato opens its doors this month...

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