by John Horn | Aug 28, 2019 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Futureproof Kids, Learning & Thinking
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 we are heading back to...
by John Horn | Aug 14, 2019 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Futureproof Kids, Learning & Thinking
“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 (parents, coaches or managers) want to see...
by Kurt Heinrich | May 24, 2019 | Learning & Thinking
Mentorship is a valuable career accelerator. As you grow in your career, it becomes increasingly important to have a guide who can offer radical candor, empathetic listening and even a key to open doors for new jobs and networks. That said, many team members I’ve...
by John Horn | Dec 12, 2018 | Have Better Conversations, Learning & Thinking
Many of us are addicted to distraction. We click between multiple screens with multiple apps with multiple tabs while our mobile device streams a podcast in the background. Every few minutes we will pick up our phone to text a friend and then snap a photo and blast a...
by John Horn | Nov 14, 2018 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Learning & Thinking
The 100 year anniversary of the end of the First World War was on Sunday, November 11, 2018. My major research paper in graduate school focused on the cultural history of the Great War, specifically how a satirical British magazine (and a few other primary sources)...