For the past 10 years our team has been publishing new articles pretty much every week (1,032 pieces to date to be specific). Beginning this month, I will start scaling back the amount of new content that I produce for The Potentiality. While I haven’t run out of ideas for pieces that connect realizing personal potential with building healthy communities, I will be taking on a big new opportunity in the Fall that will require a lot of time and energy. Here are some Potentiality reflections from 10 years of publishing as well as a preview of what you can expect from our team for the next decade (or at least the three years it will take me to finish grad school).

Potentiality reflections

I am so proud of how this website has explored the connections between personal growth and building healthy communities at work, at school and in neighbourhoods. Kurt, Mike, Godfrey and I have written about business, pop culture, what campus career centres would never teach you, parenting, and I even wrote about co-opetition before HBR thought it was cool/relevant (well, almost…). We know that we have informed and inspired folks because our readers have let us know. And we’re grateful for the support and engagement.

Although it’s almost impossible to rank my body of work, here are 10 of my favourite articles from the last 10 years:

• The 10 Qualities of Respected Rebels
• Seven Collaboration Lessons from Shipping Containers
• What I am Learning from Dinner Conversations about Gratitude
• 12 Ways to Bring More Joy to the Workplace
• Four Leadership Lessons from our Reconciliation Journey
• Three Tips for Engaging Elevator Conversations
• Three Ways to Blend Your Work and Life
• Five Ways to Cultivate Dissent on Your Team
• How to Write Emails that Inspire Action
• The 10 Qualities of People with Amazing Presence

Anything I missed that you would’ve picked for the Top Ten List?

Co-operative change

For the first time since 2003, I will be going back to school as a student in the Fall. In September I will begin the pursuit of my Masters of Management in Co-operatives and Credit Unions at Saint Mary’s University. Through this part-time, mostly virtual graduate degree I will build my philosophical and technical knowledge of the co-operative business model and will also build awesome connections with co-operators from around the world.

As communities endure and, eventually, recover from the coronavirus pandemic, I want to play a role in leading a responsible, just and inclusive recovery. I think that the co-operative model represents a logical and human solution for how we might govern our enterprises in the future. Learning more about how to make this happen is exciting and energizing.

What you can expect

Our team will continue to publish articles consistently. I will produce one piece per month and Kurt will chip in as well. Whenever possible we will share our platform with folks who have things to say about community building. Finally, with over 1,000 articles in our library, we’ll also re-purpose and re-share content that is relevant (even if it was originally published in 2012 and is about Spider-Man) for community-building conversations.

Thanks for the continued support.