A Holiday Haiku
Good holiday vibes. Community together. Holiday tacos. - A holiday haiku that is meant to celebrate the vibes, cooperation, community, and food., like tacos, that make the holidays special.
Holiday Gift Ideas from The Potentiality
During the holidays our team at The Potentiality likes to keep things loose, festive and chock full of helpful ideas to make Christmas/Hanukah/Solstice a legitimate community building experience. We’ve recommended gifts, shared career advice from holiday characters,...
The Unintentional Walking Boot Opening Listening Experiment
A little over a month ago, I partially tore my Achilles tendon and fully tore my calf muscle playing soccer. For nearly five weeks I have been conducting something called the unintentional walking boot open listening experiment. Let me explain. For nearly five weeks I...
Elevating and Grounding
The best experiences simultaneously are elevating and grounding for people. Elevating means advancing something worthwhile, connecting people to a purpose or cause, and realizing our potential by striving with boldness. Grounding conjures ideas of sensibility,...
Five Lessons in Confidence from Giannis Antetokounmpo
The Milwaukee Bucks won their first NBA championship in 50 years. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 50 points, grabbed 13 rebounds, and blocked five shots, which no one had ever done in a Finals before. This performance built on Giannis’s historically great playoff numbers...
Five Compensation Questions Organizations Should be Asking
While the science is clear that money does not buy happiness, economists and organizational psychologists argue that compensation is a major factor for people when we are deciding where to work. Pay influences employees’ motivation, engagement, and productivity....
Camping
Our family - like, the grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles - is camping in the woods of Vancouver Island. We are experiencing good food, sparkling conversation, and wonderful wilderness adventures. We might even climb a mountain and will definitely play in lakes...
Enough
I have had enough of the heat wave plaguing Western North America. By this definition, I mean having too much of something, like heat, intolerance, abuse, sensationalism, or fixed mindedness. Our tolerance has been reached or exceeded when we have had enough. Every...
Aspirational Self-Awareness
“You are the way that others see you” is, according to the Gikomba Market vendor who sold me a sarong in 2006, a Maasai proverb. When we seek to understand how others perceive our actions and absorb the impact of our intentions we develop stronger self-awareness. When...
Three Essential Ingredients for Successful Digital Transformation
Digital transformation means adopting digital technology to fundamentally change businesses, services, and experiences in our communities. Everyone is talking about digital transformation. Some organizations, like Nike, Celero, and BCIT, are making it happen for their...
Potential
Channeling the way we grow as people can (and should) build healthy communities that are sustainable for the long term. We all have potential and there is always potential for making the world better. Potential means possibility. It means that within every person,...
Kindness
Kindness is in all of us. We need more of it in the world today. When I observe fans at sporting events combined social trolls spewing garbage content at everyone from public health officials to women of colour who have opinions/talents, I notice a deficit in...
What a Woodpecker Taught Me About Rethinking Work Life
Recently, I learned a lot about what it means to think again. First, I read Adam Grant’s latest book, Think Again, and it presented compelling arguments for thinking like a scientist. Second, I engaged in a fiasco of problem solving with my neighbours that, in my...