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  • Taking Career Climbing into the 21st Century 

    Taking Career Climbing into the 21st Century 

    We talk about climbing the career ladder. But what it we thought of our careers more like a climbing wall?  Ladders are fixed in one direction. The climbing wall lets the climber choose their own paths, and it’s not always straight up in one direction.  The Productivity Project in Learning City Calgary is rethinking what… Read more

  • The Value of a Healthy Organization

    “Across industries, between companies, and over time, wellbeing is proving to be an ever more important predictor of company performance. Organizations seeking to be successful in the new world of work would be wise to take note” That’s the conclusion of the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre. There is a strong connection between employee… Read more

  • Skills of a Feather Flock Together

    Skills of a Feather Flock Together

    I worked with a project manager once who was a wiz at Excel. She could get that program to run almost like a basic software and her formulas were incredibly detailed and complex.  You could enter 2 or 3 pieces of data and the spreadsheet would do the rest, spitting out usable insights that kept… Read more

  • Ditch Digger? Not Me!

    Ditch Digger? Not Me!

    Nothing against ditch diggers, or any other kind of diggers and manual labour. In fact, in the last week I’ve met a couple of lovely humans who were doing just that.  But it is not my strength (literally as well as figuratively). I had to do some digging this week (hence the hiring some manual… Read more

  • Do You Want to be Part of the 5%?

    Do You Want to be Part of the 5%?

    By now, most everyone has seen the GenAI Divide report, or at least someone’s summary 95% of AI projects fail Two key takeaways:  As the report notes:  “This investment bias perpetuates the GenAI Divide by directing resources toward visible but often less transformative use cases, while the highest-ROI opportunities in back-office functions remain underfunded” In… Read more

  • We’re Hiring! 

    We’re Hiring! 

    But why? With the privilege of summer road travel comes the ads touting “we’re hiring!” on billboards, the back of work trucks, you name it. It’s so enthusiastic. But should it be? If you’re growing and need more people, that’s great!  If you’re turning over employees like a milkmaid churns butter? Well, that’s a different… Read more

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