by John Horn | Jan 26, 2022 | Adaptability, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Futureproof Kids
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...
by John Horn | Dec 15, 2021 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Creativity, Have Better Conversations
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 serves social innovation, the...
by John Horn | Sep 29, 2021 | Adaptability, Business & Entrepreneurship, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Have Better Conversations
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.” We had just finished a walking meeting and were...
by John Horn | Jul 29, 2020 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Have Better Conversations, Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice
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 for the very cognitive, representational...
by John Horn | Jun 17, 2020 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
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 sessions, opened...
by John Horn | Apr 1, 2020 | Adaptability, Business & Entrepreneurship, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership
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 many folks,...
