by John Horn | Feb 16, 2022 | Adaptability, Business & Entrepreneurship, Co-operative Leadership, Futureproof Kids
Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. Due to factors such as recognition (or lack thereof), workload, and safety, nearly one third of Canadians are feeling burned out...
by John Horn | Feb 2, 2022 | Co-operative Leadership, Collaboration, Futureproof Kids
Sociocracy is a system of governance and constant decision making that unlocks the potential of highly democratic, often member-led communities. It seeks to create psychologically safe environments and organizations through human-centric approaches and radical...
by John Horn | Jan 5, 2022 | Co-operative Leadership, Learning & Thinking
Work is the purposeful application of energy to complete a task that creates value for a community. The value that we create is different based on the needs of our environment and its people. Finding your values will help you produce better work (and create more value...
by John Horn | Dec 29, 2021 | Co-operative Leadership, Have Better Conversations, Leadership
A new year brings opportunity for reflection and intention-setting. 2021 was one of the most disruptive years in modern memory. 2022 looks poised to get up out of its seat, look 2021 in the face, and say: “hold my beer.” Most of what the year ahead throws at us will...
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 | Dec 8, 2021 | Co-operative Leadership, Collaboration
I’ve written about the power of blending work and life. Perhaps what we really need is worklife harmony. There are risks to blending worklife. When we blend our worklife we gain efficiencies by integrating devices and making what we do part of our identity. The...
