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…
How to Harness Your Inner Child
Harness Your Inner Child Many of my friends, colleagues, family members, and even outright strangers comment about my positive energy. “Wow, you’re a happy guy,” they observe. The reason for my having such enthusiasm is pretty simple: I love life….
Five Tips for Engaging Online Communities
After a month of intense campaigning, The Potentiality earned the third most votes in CERIC’s National Career Challenge. Our submission, Career Swap, finished ahead of a university, several college career centres as well as a number of community-based organizations. Of…
How to be a Vulnerable Leader
How to be a vulnerable leader Taken in the context of leadership, specifically within the workplace, how does vulnerability make one a better leader? This article will explore how to be a vulnerable leader. For the past few years, Brene…
Add Value by How You Think and Learn
Add Value by How You Think The Potentiality’s Cartoonist in Residence, Phil Skipper, has an interesting take on thinking and learning. Here is how Phil captured our personal and collective definitions of thinking and learning: “Learning & Thinking means finding…
What the Rob Ford Saga Means for Communicators
As the Rob Ford saga spirals from unreal to depressing, it has made me consider my profession (communications and public relations) and just how important its central tenets are for corporate or political survival. Over the years, as I’ve worked…