Category Archives: Work

Wisdom Wednesday – We Should All Imagine What A Perfect World Looks Like And Talk About It Obsessively

@simonsinek Words may inspire, but only action creates change. When we lead with empathy and respect on our own teams, we send out ripples of positive impact that will reach far beyond our immediate circles. ? original sound – Simon Sinek

Wisdom Wednesday – If The Only Tool You Have Is A Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like A Nail

If The Only Tool You Have Is A Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like A Nail  

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.)

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

April Fool’s!

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 […]

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

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 […]

Wisdom Wednesday – Oh, Poop!

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.

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 […]