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Wisdom Wednesday – Glass Balls vs. Plastic Balls

A co-worker who said she was worried about me and the impact of the various stresses in my life right now related the glass balls and plastic balls theory. I’d heard it before but always good to have a reminder about what’s truly important in life. @theultimatemomchallenge Replying to @Dr Almas I think the main […]

¶ Posted 20 November 2024 § Family § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, language, philosophy

Saturday Snap – Baby Librarian Hammond? Young Man Hammond?

It’s an unofficial tradition (does two people doing it so far equal a “tradition”?) that when a colleague is at one of the branches I work at – either for a meeting or redeployed due to illness or whatever – they leave a doodle of some kind as a “thanks” for using my desk. The […]

¶ Posted 16 November 2024 § Humour § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, cute

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 § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Saturday Snap – Apple Air Tag

I didn’t wear a Halloween costume to work this year (the branches I’m at don’t seem to embrace the holiday like some of the others in our system – I think every single person at Central had a costume for instance and even a theme of “Care Bears”!) With that said, but one of the […]

¶ Posted 02 November 2024 § Humour § Library § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: orgdevl

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – HR Lunch (January 2012)

Though it was a path I never expected, in hindsight, I was incredibly lucky to start my career in the HR Unit as I learned so much about management, leadership, organizational culture and development, change management, employee motivation and so much more. Plus we had an amazing group of people including a great HR Manager […]

¶ Posted 31 October 2024 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

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 § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: orgdevl

Wisdom Wednesday – Why Your Performance Review Doesn’t Matter

@jimchuong ? original sound – The Lazy Canadian Investor

¶ Posted 23 October 2024 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

There Is A Constant Battle Within Public Libraries Between Our Core Values of Belief In Freedom of Expression and Belief in Diversity/Inclusion

Posted without further comment. (Er, other than to say you can fast forward to the end to see the conflict of those values in action…) (h/t to concerned community member who sent this to me. It’s actually senior RPL managers speaking off-camera at the end, not RPL security guards.)