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Year: 2024

A Happy Holidays Haiku

Festive family. Find many moments of joy. Take it easy, friends. – A holiday haiku for everyone who needs to take a break, feel good vibes, and help out their community. Merry Christmas!

The Definitive Pros and Cons of Keeping a CYA Folder

Keeping a Cover Your Ass (CYA) folder can be a career lifeline. This practice is designed to protect our reputation by keeping documents, emails, and other evidence that can be used to clarify misunderstandings and defend against unfounded accusations. The…

Career Advice from Your Favourite Holiday Characters

The holiday seasons are upon us and we’re awash in the magic of Christmas, Hanukah, Love Actually, my parents’ Awesome Semi-Pagan beliefs, and, of course, Festivus. As we share stories of holiday joy with friends and family, it’s important to…

Total Football and Generalism

I’m reading Tribal by Michael Morris (it’s good) and the book begins with an analysis for “Total Football”. In the 1970s, the Dutch national soccer team transformed the sport with a philosophy where any outfield player could seamlessly assume the…

Five Tips for Bouncing Back from Obi-Wan Kenobi

Resilience is measured by how we recover from setbacks, as opposed to how well we endure tough times in the moment. Obi-Wan Kenobi knows a thing or two about bouncing back from a bad day, which fans observed and opined…

A Bomb Cyclone Haiku

Bomb cyclone is here. Wisdom of trees; perspective. Catastrophizing. – A haiku about how weather these days has different, scarier names than it used to; if this is catastrophizing, I hope it is effective…

Four Ways to be Resilient When You Feel Like Crap

This past weekend was brutal for my physical health. Food poisoning and a nasty flu bug took away my bodily fluids and ability to sleep. In the grand scheme of things this was a minor setback and I was able…

Tension: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How it can Realize a Community’s Potential

My Tension Tension happens in work and life all the time. Recently, I found myself in situations where tension was both palpable and enabling. The first instance occurred during the planning of an important event. Initially, there was considerable confusion…

Four Tips for Work Appropriate Halloween Costumes

It’s Halloween! If you’re in one of many workplaces that celebrate this spooky day, you may be invited to come in costume and celebrate in style with the usual staff costume photo set to be pasted all over the organization’s…

How to Create a Sense of Belonging in Your Community

Today is Staff Day at BC Pension Corporation. The experience provides time and space for employees to connect and learn together. This year’s theme is we belong together and we chose it because of the force-multiplier that a sense of…