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Enhancing Potential in the Canadian Workplace

Enhancing Potential Earlier this year, the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC) released its Career Development in the Workplace: National Business Survey, which describes strategies for enhancing potential in the Canadian workplace. In addition to there being a…

Career Development Take Aways from House of Cards

A few weeks ago Netflix debuted season two of its popular show House of Cards. There are some powerful career building lessons to be learned from Vice President Frank Underwood, who ducks, dodges and damages his foes as part of…

How Drawing Together Enhances Creativity

Collaborative drawing is a great way to build trust and foster creativity on your team. This article demonstrates how drawing together enhances creativity. A few weeks ago Vancity’s Learning and Development team worked together to create an impact map of…

Don’t Love your Work; Love your Craft and your Career

Most of us have heard the pearl of wisdom that we all should do what we love. It’s a mainstay for many parents and counsellors looking to steer eager graduates away from grinding away at jobs they hate for a…

Three Tips for Engaging Elevator Conversations

Engaging Elevator Conversations Conversations in elevators can be some of the most uncomfortable and awkward examples of human communication. This article will provide you with three tips for engaging elevator conversations. Three months ago I joined the legions of human…

Blood Sweat and Cheers: Something for Everyone

Blood, Sweat and Cheers is a New York based company that’s interweaving community through some of the most bizarre activities ever seen.

Tips for Successful Communication in the Digital Age

Consumers, not producers, dictate their media diet these days, which means that consumption of your product or message must be the consumer’s choice. The key to ensuring that they choose your product or listen to your message is to build…

How We Will Reach Our Potential in 2014

Our Potential in 2014 Mike, Kurt and I will know that 2014 has realized its potential when we see streamlined focus on family, hands-on experimentation, and envelope-pushing career growth flourishing in our lives. These are the hopes and aspirations of…

ActiveHistory.ca Enhances Community Potential

The Opener | How the past informs our communities’ potential The Potentiality inspires and educates passionate community builders. One of the ways we do this is by featuring organizations (businesses, social enterprises, schools, and non-profits) that are doing cool things…

7 Tips for Working in the Information Economy

Ages ago the world of work was a much simpler place. For the vast majority of people working within the industrialized and industrializing nations, the work day was divided into eight hour chunks to maintain constant progress and enable consistent…