A long time ago, a colleague gave me a way to think of hiring that totally changed how I view the process of selecting a candidate. Before, I was just thinking “Who can best do this job?” but he pointed out that you’re not just hiring the person for the immediate job but potentially for […]
In my Wisdom Wednesday series, I’ll eventually do a post about the difference I see between what I call “black & white” thinkers and “grey area” thinkers. (Myers-Briggs has 16 classifications. True Colors has 4. Hamology basically only has 2!) One big aspect of this difference is that are those who think there are hard […]
Watch this with sound and subtitles off then tell me what you think this is. (My guesses: World’s Worst Breakdancer Contest? Man Discovers Metallica For The First Time? Invisible Electric Shock Therapy?) I’m sorry, but what in the fresh hell is this? pic.twitter.com/QmI2GEhpNz — E (@ElijahSchaffer) October 14, 2023
I was once in an interview where I was asked about my definition of leadership. I was in a terrible head space so I froze up then gave an answer that basically insulted everyone in the room! I’ll probably try a “redo” of that question in blog form some day as I have lots of […]
You can’t make this stuff up.
Everyone has an opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict as do I. But I’ll only share two thoughts – I feel for the people on *both* sides of this conflict and I hate that its religion underpinning the conflict (and has been for four thousand years, not one hundred which is the lens most commentary takes.)
…to encourage my daughter to become a kind, empathetic, supportive human being. (Too bad the parents of many of the current Sask Party MLAs didn’t share similar lessons with their kids before they became regressive, reactive bullies.)
This was a lesson I learned from my first manager at RPL (who also happened to be the Manager of HR so had tons of great insights into managing people, dealing with conflict and so on.) The context was that I was in a very unique role as Organizational Development Specialist, responsible for all staff […]
I’ve been thinking about actions vs. words a lot lately. One of the things that really brought home this important distinction was when I had to leave the Regent Place branch of Regina Public Library after eight years as Branch Head following a re-org of supervisors and managers. It was a pretty emotional time and […]
Not understanding accents. Poor sound mixing. Helps overcome noisy distractions while watching. (Ironically as I type this, Sasha is literally digging in the fridge asking if we have any yoghurt as Shea and I (try to) watch “Daisy Jones and the Six” – and yes, we have sub-titles on!) Bad hearing Not necessarily bad hearing […]
