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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…

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…

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…

Have you got an inkling that your team could be even more productive or effective? Do you have hard working, talented and motivated team members who aren’t reaching their full potential, individually or collectively? A lack of clear and specific goals may be what’s holding them back. We know that…

In this Petulant Pairings conversation, I had the pleasure of visiting with Chef Samir Hrichi the Chef/Owner of the legendary Ship to Shore, an American Bistro in scenic Kingston, New York, on the Hudson River, along with the restaurant’s General Manager, Mr. Shane McDermott. When I clicked to join our…

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…

If you are a winery or hospitality leader, this is likely an intense time of year for you as you staff up and train your team for the new season (with fingers crossed that health regulations will allow for wider visitation). You’ve selected your new staff and now, like an…

There are countless good reasons to support working with a coach. Research has shown that 98% of coaching clients said their coach “provided practical, realistic, and immediately usable input” and helped them “identify specific behaviors that would help me achieve my goals.” (Center for Creative Leadership study, 2016) With the…

Today’s Petulant Pairings conversation welcomes a successful and well-loved Vancouver restauranteur, the owner of the city’s top tapas room, España, in Vancouver’s West End. Before talking petulant pairings with Edward, we had some interesting conversation about his culinary inspiration, his mother, Chef Tatum, who raised him and his brothers in…

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.…