How to Create a Sense of Belonging in Your Community
Today is Staff Day at BC Pension Corporation. The experience provides time and space for employees to connect and learn together. This year’s theme is we belong together and we chose it because of the force-multiplier that a sense of belonging creates for individuals...
Systems of Agility
Systems of agility represent an approach or framework designed to foster flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness in both work and life. It encompasses various elements, including flexible structures, malleable, diverse, and redeployable talent, and a culture...
A Fusion Haiku
Bring it together. Nuclear cooking platform. Embracing fusion. - A haiku about a very awesome, caring, and collaborative team that just launched a really big finance and HR system!
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...
A Recovery Haiku
Recovering slow. Torn Achilles in a boot. Having perspective. - A haiku about what it takes to be resilient when, well, we're getting older and the body breaks down...
Five Professional Lessons from Captain America: Civil War
Last Friday night Kurt and I saw Captain America: Civil War. The summer’s hottest movie taught us a lot about international diplomacy, teamwork, spandex, friendship, and ourselves, too. Here are five professional lessons from Captain America: Civil War that you can...
Three Ways to use the Waysfinder Model for Career Development
The Waysfinder Model provides a simple and flexible way to navigate worklife complexity. Its founder, Sonja Blignaut, suggests that the model expects multiple ideas or products to be simultaneously and collaboratively attempted based on the potentialities from each...
A Failure Haiku
Feeling like failure. Learning happens everywhere. Failing is learning. - This is a Failure - or a failing is learning - Haiku because it's been a tough month and I've learned a lot (humans always do!)
How to Talk About Death at Work
For the last decade I’ve worked for two of Canada’s leaders in financial services (Vancity Credit Union) and pension administration (BC Pension Corporation). Through activities like estate planning and benefits changes many of my colleagues are required to talk about...
Four Ways that Tough Feedback Makes Work Better
Our team has written quite a bit about feedback – both how to give it and how to ask for it and act on it. But in our day to day work, we are often confronted with input and criticism that we immediately feel is unfair or incorrect. It falls outside a more structured...
A Travel Haiku
Travel to learn. Culture. Knowledge. Connection. Oh, and lobster rolls. - A travel haiku written to reflect on the Horn family's recent awesome trip to Nova Scotia