Three Creativity Lessons from Kindergarten
I’m learning a lot about kindergarten. A novel part of COVID worklife for my wife (who is her own woman) and I is that we get to teach our oldest son kindergarten. Feeling swells of exhaustion, inspiration and humility each…
Three Examples of Innovation Inspired by the Pandemic
The novel coronavirus pandemic is a global tragedy. At least one million people have died from the virus. The International Monetary Fund is predicting that the pandemic will cost over $28tn in lost output. How we live and work will…
15 Positive Self-Talk Phrases that Will Build Your Confidence
The global pandemic is approximately one year old. Arguably the next few months will be the hardest because we are heading into the final stretch of this hellish marathon. So many of us are hitting walls in our work and…
10 Ways to Avoid Burnout in Your Worklife
These days the top risk to organizations around the world is employee burnout. The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging communities in multiple ways. Families are stressed out because of unplanned homeschooling, decades of female economic empowerment is being undone, racial justice…
Five Ways this Crisis is an Opportunity for Positive Change
Without a doubt this is one of the most calamitic Canada Days in a hundred years and certainly the most challenging and uncertain in a generation. This crisis – climate change compounded by a global pandemic compounded by a modern…
Three Ways to Keep Redeployed Employees Engaged
Businesses everywhere continue to evolve their operations in response to measures for stemming the spread of COVID-19. In some instances, businesses are strategically redeploying employees temporarily to business units that can be better leveraged in states of lockdown and restriction….
Three Things I’m Doing to Lead a Remote Team
So there’s this global pandemic happening. While the far-reaching economic and social impacts of COVID-19 are still unknown, the return to normal will take a long time and, when it’s over, we probably won’t live and work the way we…
Six Tips for Staying Sane While Working from Home with Kids
Many parents are working from home with our kids as COVID-19 burns its way around the world. Canada has been impacted by mass unemployment. Offices are shuttered and employees in most industries have been sent home – some with pay,…
99 Ways to Make Remote Work Awesome
Organizations around the world have enabled people to work remotely as part of a global effort to #flattenthecurve (and also plank it) with social/physical distancing. Nearly half of North Americans are working from home (many aren’t working at all). For…
Three More Human Capabilities Being Surfaced by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Last week I wrote about three human capabilities being surfaced by COVID-19 and the global pandemic. At best, things are pretty weird times for humanity. More likely, these are definitely uncertain and very scary times, especially for the most vulnerable…