Skip to content

Category Archives: Wisdom Wednesday

Wisdom Wednesday – What Is Compassionate Leadership?

@upeace_centre Leading with empathy builds trust and connection! ?? Let’s inspire and uplift each other! Link in Bio #motivation #leadershiptips #trendingvideo ? original sound – UPEACE Centre – UPEACE Centre I know farewell messages are like eulogies and tend to be overly kind to the dearly departed. But if we’re being honest, “compassionate leadership” can […]

Posted 13 November 2024 § Jobs § List § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – “Have You Considered Our EFAP Program?”

My first boss had very personal reasons for being strongly anti-union.  But he was quite insightful when he said “I still think Unions are necessary because they protect employees from bad bosses.  And the biggest problem is that bad bosses don’t know they’re bad bosses.” I heard something semi-related when talking to some union colleagues […]

Posted 06 November 2024 § Family § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Sad § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Identify Poor Leaders

@bringleadershiptolife Identifying a bad leader in your workplace.. #workplace #leadershiptiktok #leadershiptraining ? original sound – Greg Zimbulis – Greg Zimbulis

Posted 30 October 2024 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Why Your Performance Review Doesn’t Matter

@jimchuong ? original sound – The Lazy Canadian Investor

Posted 23 October 2024 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Trust Is More Important Than Performance

“We have a million metrics to measure performance but little to none to measure trustworthiness.” @simonsinek Promote the trustworthy, not just the high-performing. Is your team built on trust? ? #NavySEALs #LeadershipLessons ? original sound – Simon Sinek

Posted 09 October 2024 § Jobs § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – A Deep Insight Into GenX Thinking

@jasonkpargin The new book is out in a month: I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom ? Quirky Suspenseful Indie-Comedy(1115050) – Kenji Ueda

Posted 02 October 2024 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Counter Intuitive Leadership Principles

A long time ago, a senior leader at RPL told me “I know you like tech companies but libraries aren’t like those companies.  We do things differently.” I wasn’t advocating for trampolines in the hallways and personal chefs in the lunch room but I did wonder “Why” that person ruled out trying some different innovative […]

Posted 25 September 2024 § Jobs § List § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Start Every Work Meeting…

@adamfrith_ Amen ? #animation #funny #foryou #fyp ? original sound – Dustin Nickerson

Posted 18 September 2024 § Humour § Jobs § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – I’m Such A Team Player, I Really Enjoy My Job, And I Respect My Colleagues. But also…

…I cling madly to those studies that show swearing in a sign of higher-than-average intelligence! 😉 @the_mole_bag ????? #CapCut #meme #schittscreek #pov #workhumour #relatable #foryou #foryoupage #fyp #jokesss ? original sound – Nintendo – Nintendo  

Posted 04 September 2024 § Humour § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Who Could’ve Predicted Sick Time Would Increase Coming Out of a Worldwide Pandemic?!?

This may be a record as I’ve been collecting information and reading about and adding info to the ongoing draft of this blog post, for oh, over two years. I’ve been doing this, basically ever since society collectively decided that Covid was over and that we’d all stop masking, stop most precautions, and start acting […]

Posted 28 August 2024 § Jobs § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,