I think it was the very first post I made when I started doing these workplace/organizational culture themed “Wisdom Wednesday” posts – the best lesson the best manager I never directly worked for taught me. “At the end of the day, forget all the rules and policies and guidelines because those are just words on […]
With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]
There have been a lot of mistakes, a lot of missteps and a lot of deficit budgets. But cutting the Sask Film Tax Credit is arguably the single most negative impact the Sask Party has had on our province – chasing away film production and the skilled people who worked in the industry *just* as […]
I feel so fortunate to have grown up with parents who instilled a love of reading, news, politics and community engagement into me from a young age. Whether it was my dad reading the Leader Post from front-to-back every evening or my mom’s involvement on the Board of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, I have […]
A recent post in a Regina Rant & Rave group on FB got a lot of attention. Basically, a disabled person went to a Co-op gas station to get air in a low tire but couldn’t get it to work. They talked to the manager who didn’t help. But then a sixteen year old gas […]
This hits hard pic.twitter.com/tFc4yF2YaK — Shooter McGavin (@ShooterMcGavin) March 10, 2026
It’s an ongoing debate about whether it’s better for managers to have direct frontline experience in their past or if a “good manager is a good manager” whether they’re selling insurance, dish soap or running a public library. We’re lucky in Saskatchewan that our province (and I believe BC) are the only provinces that require […]
@claleadership101 Accountability vs. ownership. I LOVE this shift that can free our people from micromanagement to ownership. Great way to engage the team in a fresh way where they take personal responsibility of their work and business. Change the words you use and create a culture of ownership and commitment. Here’s a simple framework to […]
