WorkLore

Keep Your people by aligning your Strategy

Where People and Strategy meet

STRATEGY + COMPETENCY + DEVELOPMENT

When you have the right fit between your strategy and your people, your story is compelling to your customer and energizes your team and amplifies your growth.

Development

How do you keep your employees growing? How does that drive your objectives?

Does everyone in your organization know why they are there? How their work contributes?

How might you create career pathways for your employees to keep them productive and engaged?

AI Enablement

Do your employees know how to make the most of emerging tools like AI? Are they confident using these tools? Are you?

Are you concerned that you might be missing opportunities by not using AI in your business?

How might you boost productivity by introducing AI into your business and empowering your employees?

Storytelling

What story are you telling about the work you do? Are you engaging clients and customers or boring them?

What do you current employees think of the story you tell? What about future employees?

How might you better tell the story of the amazing work you do?

  • What Makes a Good Story?

    What Makes a Good Story?

    Good stories capture us and enthrall us.  When we are caught up in a good story, whether someone is telling it to us, or we’re reading a good book, or we’re watching it on the screen, something interesting starts to happen.  Our brains start to sync.  Paul Zak used fMRI to demonstrate that stories can cause… Read more

  • Practicing What I Preach

    Practicing What I Preach

    I talk a lot about the need for continuous skill development, so when this article from The Conversation about new hobbies came into my awareness, I thought it was time to show my work.  I have been teaching art students how to write. Along the way, I see a lot of their art and have… Read more

  • When Skills Aren’t Used, We All Lose

    When Skills Aren’t Used, We All Lose

    Recently, I had the opportunity to contribute to a proposal that would address the need for trade diversification, particularly for small to medium businesses, as well as the under-utilization of the skills newcomers to Canada bring. The working title is the Global Trade and Talent Accelerator (GTTA) and it addresses these two problems together.   The… Read more

  • Why WorkLore?

    Why WorkLore?

    I’ve been thinking on this post for a while but I have also struggled with writing it. How do I capture all the nuances that this name resonates for me? I had a draft, but was wondering how I might improve it.  So, I did what a lot of people do. I asked Claude to… Read more

  • Daylight Savings – Deadly Consequences

    Daylight Savings – Deadly Consequences

    Driving to work the Monday after the spring daylight savings change is dangerous.  According to research from the Canadian Ministry of Transport, accidents increase. The increase is not small: approximately by 8%.  Researchers suggest this is because we are all so chronically sleep deprived that one less hour of sleep makes us that much less… Read more

  • The More Things Change… the AI Version

    The More Things Change… the AI Version

    “AI-this” and “AI-that” can be a bit overwhelming at times.  Sometimes when that happens, I think back to more analog times, a benefit of having lived long enough to be comfortable in both worlds.  In this case, I thought about how technology changes.  Sometimes when I talk about technology with students. I hold up a… Read more

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