Harmony
I've written about the power of blending work and life. Perhaps what we really need is worklife harmony. There are risks to blending worklife. When we blend our worklife we gain efficiencies by integrating devices and making what we do part of our identity. The risk...
Three Important Leadership Questions
Education inoculates us against disruption. As our communities endure more disruption, especially here on the West Coast of Canada, it is important for leaders to reflect on ideas, models, and frameworks of leadership that will help us help others to grow, thrive, and...
Five Mindfulness Lessons I Learned from Spilling Water on my Laptop
Two weeks ago I my enthusiastic hand-talking resulted in a lidless water bottle toppling its contents all over my laptop. Several tabs, documents and emails were opened when the catastrophe ensued and the screen went very black very quickly. All that was not saved was...
Adaptability – Developing Your Capability to Thrive
More than coping with the constantly changing world around you, to thrive you need to predict, test, and rapidly adapt your materials, processes, and behaviour.
Kick it Old School with Phone Calls, Not Email
We live in a world of emails and text messages. And frequently our electronic correspondence can ignite conflict due to misunderstanding or misinterpretation of linguistic and non-verbal signs that have evolved in cultures over thousands of years. It’s an issue that,...
Five Tips for Throwing Awesome Dinner Parties
This past Saturday my lovely wife, who is also her own woman, Michelle and I hosted four friends for dinner and the experience was spectacular. Here's how to host awesome dinner parties. Host Awesome Dinner Parties One of my favourite ways to collaborate with people...
STAND Foundation: Building Student Potential
The Potentiality inspires and educates changemakers who are passionate about building community. One of the ways we do this is by featuring organizations (businesses, social enterprises, schools, and non-profits) that are doing cool things to build community. This...
7 Tips for Adapting to Travel Disaster
On the morning of July 6, 2013, I was waiting with my redheaded partner, Theo, in the Vancouver International Airport US Departures terminal, preparing to board a United Airlines flight to San Francisco. We were on our way to California to kick off our two week...
How to be Creative: Ideation, Risk and Play
The Potentiality’s Cartoonist in Residence, Phil Skipper, has an interesting take on creativity. Here is how Phil captured our personal and collective definitions of creativity: “Creativity means artistry. Poetry, web design, math, bicycle repair, public speaking....
How to Make Awesome Introductions
Being introduced to people is one of the best ways to become part of a community. As a career practitioner, I’m in the business of making hundreds of human connections every year and this article will explore how to make awesome introductions. Over the years I’ve made...
Four ways to keep a team motivated during summer
As a leader, you may have noticed that as the temperature has increased over summer, the motivation of your team has decreased. The reality is that between the Pina Coladas, the vacation plans and the neighbourhood barbeques, summer can be a distracting time for...
The Awesome Awards: How Recognition Realizes Community Potential
The Opener | Recognizing Peoples’ Awesomeness The Potentiality inspires and educates changemakers who are passionate about building community and enhancing well-being. We research and present stories, tools and ideas that help communities realize their potential. One...
Learn Why Generalists are the New Specialists
My colleague and I were talking the other day about how she is not the master of one particular skill. Essentially, she felt that she was a Gill-of-all-trades rather than a master or expert. This got me thinking a lot about how today’s job market, especially as it...