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…
A Fusion Haiku
Bring it together. Nuclear cooking platform. Embracing fusion. – A haiku about a very awesome, caring, and collaborative team that just launched a really big finance and HR system!
A Basketball Haiku
Fall is basketball. Balls bouncing, sneakers squeaking. Be a great teammate. – A haiku about the start of basketball season that, I hope, inspires parents, coaches, and teachers to write poems about piano lessons, art classes, and soccer practices that…
Three Ways to Enable Cross-Functional Teams
In the world of work, collaboration is key. I have been supporting a project that is expanding collaboration in our organization by enabling cross-functional teams. These teams are all about mixing different areas of expertise to get things done more…
How Agile Methodology and the Co-operative Model Complement Each Other
Earlier this year I took part in two different learning experiences. The first was some pretty standard classroom training that introduced Agile Methodology to employees at Vancity. The second was not standard because I traveled to Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna…
How Language Creates and Erodes Interdependence
I agree with Batman that our actions matter more than who we are underneath because actions reveal our true character. I also notice how much language influences who leaders are and what we stand for. I notice this the most…
A Carbonara Haiku
All the carbonara. Hosting, connecting, friendship. Fueling the cycling. – A haiku the underscores how sharing good food with good friends builds healthy and connected communities that are sustainable for the long term
How the Economics of Friendship Shape Work and Life
Friendship is a fundamental and universal human need. This form of social connection cultivates mutual affection, trust, interdependence, and joy. According to one of modern social science’s longest ongoing studies, the social connections of friendship enrich and even extend our…
Three Ways to Rebalance Power in Meetings
Meetings are a necessary evil in most workplaces. Even though meetings are supposed to enable information sharing, facilitate decision making, and foster meaningful connections, we probably feel the soul-destroying experience of poorly managed meetings at least once a week. According…
A Goat Cabin Haiku
Shirley tradition. Goats. Beaches. (Safe) fires. Family. There are hobbits here? – A haiku about “the goat cabin” where the Horn Family has made memories for the past three spring breaks. And some shenanigans…