Career Development is the Vaccine for The Great Reshuffle
There is a vaccine to address recruitment and retention in the wake of “The Great Reshuffle.” It’s called career development. A national survey recently conducted by Environics for CERIC — a Canadian charitable organization that advances education and research in career counselling and…
Where We Work Should Be Beautiful
When I was in Italy as a member of Vancity’s Co-operative Study Tour we visited a worker co-op called Kilowatt and I fell in love with the space and its people. The organization focuses on consulting, communication and education that…
Returning to the Office Will Be Weird
As I wiped down my chair and a nearby desk that I may or may not have touched with various cleaning supplies, I looked up at my colleague, Deanna, and said “okay…returning to the office will be weird for everyone.”…
The Potentiality Playlist vol. 1
Music is – and always has been – the fabric of everyday life. Daniel J. Levitin, author of This is Your Brain on Music argues that, “music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and…
Three Governance Lessons from Serving as CERIC’s Board Chair
Next week I will end my two-year term as Chair of the Board of Directors for CERIC, a charity purposed with advancing career development in Canada. I’ve run a bunch of meetings that (mostly) ended on time, co-created/co-facilitated strategic planning…
99 Ways to Make Remote Work Awesome
Organizations around the world have enabled people to work remotely as part of a global effort to #flattenthecurve (and also plank it) with social/physical distancing. Nearly half of North Americans are working from home (many aren’t working at all). For…
Five Ways to Avoid Career Regret
CERIC is Toronto-based charity that is advancing career development in Canada. As Chair of the Board of Directors, I have spent the last few weeks speaking with career practitioners, policymakers, business leaders, and journalists about the profound regret that many…
Three Takeaways from Cannexus20
Canada’s largest career development conference, Cannexus, just wrapped up in Ottawa. The past four days have seen over 1,300 delegates from across Canada and around the world share ideas and learn from each other to advance career development in service…
Build your Giving Muscles
It’s Christmas Day, which is a holiday that is supposed to be synonymous with giving. More likely, if you’re celebrating Christmas today you will be experiencing something that Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant calls “matching” – this is when people give…
Sustainable Holiday Gift Ideas from The Potentiality
The holiday season is here and our team at The Potentiality is thrilled to share a couple of gift ideas, which is something that we do at this time of year, that inform and inspire your community building choices. Here…