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Wisdom Wednesday – Meetings

Running an effective meeting is one of the core skills managers and supervisors need in any organization.  (I don’t agree with everything in this picture but I do agree that meetings and how they are run is a reflection of your larger culture.)

Posted 20 May 2026 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Happy to Announce I’ve Accepted The Newly Created Position of Manager, Organizational Development, At RPL!

April Fool’s!

Posted 01 April 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – At The End of the Day…

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 […]

Posted 25 March 2026 § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don’t take it all/’Cause I’m the taxman/Yeah, I’m the taxman.”

“Taxman” – The Beatles

Posted 23 March 2026 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § UK § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale

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 […]

Posted 20 March 2026 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Oh, Poop!

Posted 18 March 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – A Fire in the Library!

Luckily, it was a pretend fire for a “Campfire Stories” program offered in partnership with Radio-Canada and CBC.

Posted 14 March 2026 § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Civic Engagement (February 2004, June 2009, Sept 2025)

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 […]

Posted 12 March 2026 § Family § Jobs § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § Politics § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – What Constitutes Great Customer Service (and How Far Is Too Far?)

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 […]

Posted 11 March 2026 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – All About All-Inclusives (Sept 2017)

Before programming at RPL was centralized, each branch got to plan their own programs.  I sometimes put myself on the docket to talk about subjects I had a particualr knowledge (some might say expertise!) in…

Posted 05 March 2026 § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,