Five Management Lessons from Coaching Youth Soccer
For the last few months I’ve been coaching my oldest son’s soccer team. He’s five years old and his teammates are around the same age. As you can imagine, the experience combines adorableness and fun with chaos and frustration. Weirdly…
Five Performance Tips from the Wiggles
Last night I took my youngest son to The Wiggles concert in Vancouver. It was an absolute blast. There was dancing, crowd-work, acrobatics, costumed-creatures, and many smiling kids (adults too!). It was the kind of showmanship and execution audiences expect…
Professional lessons from the Loudest Voice
The Loudest Voice is an HBO mini-series that charts the rise and fall of Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News. Played by Russell Crowe in heavy makeup, Ailes is depicted as a ruthless, creepy and strategically brilliant predator. The show…
Five Ideas for Your Learning Strategy
According to experts, the future of work will require learning and adaptability. Organizations around the world are investing heavily in learning management systems, content platforms, design tools, and the capability of their learning teams. Making learning a key component of…
Three Leadership Lessons from Succession
HBO’s hit drama Succession follows the Roy family as they squabble (and backstab) their way to the top of their father’s media empire Waystar Royco. Based loosely on the Murdoch family (with plenty of other business scion source material mixed…
Four Tips for Enhancing Your Task Management
Work requires a lot of different tasks and commitments. A day in the life of my job my attention is divided across multiple media inquiries, requests for help from team members, strategy documents to work on, new updates that I…
Dear Vancity Interns…
Dear Vancity Interns (specifically those of you from the 2019 Community Leader Internship Program), Thank you, good luck with your next steps, and holy crap you are a talented group of human beings. Last Friday you completed your internship experience…
Five Reasons Why You Must Learn to Learn
September is right around the corner, so communities around the world are rightly focusing on the importance of learning. The thing is that the ability to learn is the most critical skill for everyone everywhere to develop regardless of whether…
Five Ways to Recharge your Batteries
I’ve needed to recharge this month. Work and life have been challenging. Between moving to a new home, my son changing daycare, and significant stresses at work, I started to notice that my battery was draining a lot faster than…
Five Reasons Why Learning Should Be Hard
“I really enjoyed this course” is a phrase that triggers me. The data are clear that having a good time during a learning experience has nothing to do with what we learn. Too often teachers want to be liked, stakeholders…