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…
Three Ways to Augment Work with AI
As technology continues to advance, organizations are turning to AI and natural language processing tools like ChatGPT to automate repetitive tasks and free up employees’ time. By leveraging these tools, employees are able to focus on higher-level, more meaningful work…
Potential
Channeling the way we grow as people can (and should) build healthy communities that are sustainable for the long term. We all have potential and there is always potential for making the world better. Potential means possibility. It means that…
Why Nerds Should Be Enthusiastic
In the past being a nerd was often seen in a negative light. Nerds were bullied and were the punch line of jokes from sitcoms to locker rooms around the world. These days, though, embracing and unlocking the potential of…
My Potentiality Reflections After 10 Years
For the past 10 years our team has been publishing new articles pretty much every week (1,032 pieces to date to be specific). Beginning this month, I will start scaling back the amount of new content that I produce for…
The Best Potentiality Articles from 2017
Another year is wrapping up. 2017 has been tumultuous (holy geopolitical landscape, Batman!), inspiring (#MeToo), tragic (you will be missed, Tom Petty), and enlightening (Lady Bird and other pinnacles of our culture). Amidst it all, this humble website has also…
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…
How to Write Emails that Inspire Action
Email is the preferred communication tool in the world of work. Emails provides a digital footprint – a threaded record – of ideas, requests, stories, and all the rest of it. Unfortunately, most of us really, really suck at writing…
How to Communicate: Stories, Focus and Listening
The Potentiality’s Cartoonist in Residence, Phil Skipper, has an interesting take on communication. Here is how Phil captured our personal and collective definitions of communication: “Communicating means speaking and writing with simplicity, clarity and influence. This is the most sought-after…
Communicate with Success on Camera
Here are three tips for new spokespeople looking to communicate their message through the media Whether you’re an Executive Director telling the story of your non-profit’s fundraising campaign, a neighbourhood association spokesperson who is promoting an upcoming event, or a…