You can help reunite families
Can you imagine how desperately you would want to be reunited with your child in a natural disaster or a crisis? Are you horrified by stories of children being torn from their parents at the Mexico-U.S. border with no plans for reunification?
There are millions of displaced children in the world. Through UNICEF, you can reunite a child with their family.
Only $26 pays the transportation costs to reunite a child with his or her family somewhere in the world. That’s roughly the cost of one of my kids’ music lessons and a fraction of the cost of a week of summer day-camp. Throw in another $20 and you can cover one month of counselling.
You don’t have to feel powerless. Put some good back into the world. I’m glad I did.
Wishing you a wonderful summer.
P.S. I have no professional or personal affiliation with UNICEF, just a desire to help where I can.
Here’s a post by the incomparable Randy Conley, V.P. of Client Services & Trust Practice Leader at Ken Blanchard.
Trust is the absolute, without a doubt, most important ingredient for a successful relationship, especially for leaders. Unfortunately, though, most leaders don’t give much thought to trust until it’s been broken, and that’s the worst time to realize its importance. According to a study by Tolero Solutions, 45% of employees say lack of trust in […]
via Do Your Leaders Build or Erode Trust? #infographic — Leading with Trust
Miss you Dad: 10 Leadership lessons my father taught me
Last year for Father’s Day I wrote about my Dad who had recently passed away. Since the lessons all still apply. Here’s that story from my archives.
10 leadership lessons from my Dad

My daughter, then three, me and my Dad the day I received my MA Leadership from the University of Guelph. He started teaching me about leadership long before then.