Five Ways to Avoid Career Regret
CERIC is Toronto-based charity that is advancing career development in Canada. As Chair of the Board of Directors, I have spent the last few weeks speaking with career practitioners, policymakers, business leaders, and journalists about the profound regret that many…
Three Takeaways from Cannexus20
Canada’s largest career development conference, Cannexus, just wrapped up in Ottawa. The past four days have seen over 1,300 delegates from across Canada and around the world share ideas and learn from each other to advance career development in service…
Build your Giving Muscles
It’s Christmas Day, which is a holiday that is supposed to be synonymous with giving. More likely, if you’re celebrating Christmas today you will be experiencing something that Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant calls “matching” – this is when people give…
Sustainable Holiday Gift Ideas from The Potentiality
The holiday season is here and our team at The Potentiality is thrilled to share a couple of gift ideas, which is something that we do at this time of year, that inform and inspire your community building choices. Here…
Five Management Lessons from Coaching Youth Soccer
For the last few months I’ve been coaching my oldest son’s soccer team. He’s five years old and his teammates are around the same age. As you can imagine, the experience combines adorableness and fun with chaos and frustration. Weirdly…
Five Performance Tips from the Wiggles
Last night I took my youngest son to The Wiggles concert in Vancouver. It was an absolute blast. There was dancing, crowd-work, acrobatics, costumed-creatures, and many smiling kids (adults too!). It was the kind of showmanship and execution audiences expect…
Five Ideas for Your Learning Strategy
According to experts, the future of work will require learning and adaptability. Organizations around the world are investing heavily in learning management systems, content platforms, design tools, and the capability of their learning teams. Making learning a key component of…
Dear Vancity Interns…
Dear Vancity Interns (specifically those of you from the 2019 Community Leader Internship Program), Thank you, good luck with your next steps, and holy crap you are a talented group of human beings. Last Friday you completed your internship experience…
Five Reasons Why You Must Learn to Learn
September is right around the corner, so communities around the world are rightly focusing on the importance of learning. The thing is that the ability to learn is the most critical skill for everyone everywhere to develop regardless of whether…
Five Reasons Why Learning Should Be Hard
“I really enjoyed this course” is a phrase that triggers me. The data are clear that having a good time during a learning experience has nothing to do with what we learn. Too often teachers want to be liked, stakeholders…