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Taking Stock of 2021 and Building a Fabulous 2022

Prepare your team to debrief the 2021 season and get ready for a stellar 2022. We’re pleased to share this initial template for you to get these conversations started with your team. Click here to download this template for free. If you are interested in doing a deeper dive contact…
Beyond The Wine
November 16, 2021
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The Harvest is Complete – Where to Next?

Shortly after you’ve completed the autumn harvest can be the perfect time to exhale, congratulate yourself and your team for the immense task you’ve successfully completed and review the season that has just concluded. With all the events still fresh in your memory, it’s the ideal moment to take stock…
Beyond The Wine
October 29, 2021
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Petulant Pairings with Matthew Hartmann

During this summertime Petulant Parings conversation I connected with the fascinating and very knowledgeable Matthew Hartmann of Buzz Restaurant in dreamy St. Lucia! We covered a lot of territory! Matthew talked about his formative experiences in the top fine dining establishments in the Caribbean which led him to then open…
Beyond The Wine
August 29, 2021
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Can you Make a Fine Wine from Sour Grapes?

Or put another way, can a team be successful if its members are bitter, unhappy or demotivated? I asked myself this question after speaking with a friend who at the onset of the pandemic, had been suddenly laid-off from a senior role in a hospitality company that she’d been with…
Beyond The Wine
May 30, 2021
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Finding the Extraordinary in your Ordinary

Originally published in the Summer edition of the MarketAPeel Magazine: https://www.marketapeel.agency My late father’s banking career kept our family on the move. In fact, every few years we were transferred to a new place and by the age of 8 I’d lived in Red Dear, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon and Winnipeg.…
Beyond The Wine
January 25, 2021
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How to Turn Conflict into a Competitive Advantage

That’s right, you heard me: conflict as an advantage! Wouldn’t it be great to be able to channel all that energy and passion invested in conflict so that it yields a positive outcome? We’re used to thinking about conflict as bad, negative, unhelpful, dysfunctional, decidedly undesirable. But not all conflicts…
Beyond The Wine
December 12, 2020
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Petulant Pairings For Your Adventurous Palate

When you order fish, you must have white wine. With grilled steak? A big red is de rigueur…but we all know what they say about “rules” – sometimes they’re better off bent! Making wine welcoming Wine can be a very complex subject that intimidates the uninitiated. But it doesn’t have…
Beyond The Wine
December 6, 2020
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Policy Tsunami Headed for Canada’s Wine Industry

Last week we received the first deliberation on the challenge advanced to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by Australia to rectify taxation and markup policies deemed unfair and currently in effect in Canada for Canadian wine producers. I’m not going to delve into the economic or international trade policy analysis…
Beyond The Wine
November 10, 2020
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Oops! I Think That Was A Relation-SLIP!

Back To Sonoma And The Dry Creek Valley My last post was about the powerful human connection that our host at Unti Vineyards, (near Healdsburg, CA), George Unti, created with us and how it resulted in an emotion-driven urge to purchase more wine than we originally thought we might come away…
Beyond The Wine
November 3, 2020
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Covid and the Community Call

How the Pandemic led to Creating New Communities and Newfound Connectedness  Back in March, which feels like a lifetime ago now, the extrovert in me was shell shocked by the move to working exclusively from home. Training sessions were postponed, classes at the university where I teach went online. While…
Beyond The Wine
October 25, 2020
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Introducing Beyond the Wine

Before I knew it for sure or could even properly articulate the concept, it seemed to me that there was more than wine inside a bottle of wine. As long as I can remember, my parents were always entertaining, participating in impromptu potlucks, welcoming guests or visiting friends as a family…
Beyond The Wine
October 7, 2020