by mvboronowski | Apr 15, 2015 | Collaboration
On Saturday night 25 colleagues and I danced to Bruno Mars’s “Uptown Funk” as part of the entertainment for V After Dark, Vancity Credit Union’s annual employee recognition and celebration event. Here’s the video and a blog post about 10 professional lessons from...
by mvboronowski | Apr 8, 2015 | Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice
The Watchmen is a classic graphic novel that was recently turned into a stylistic and pulpy film. If you haven’t seen it before, you can now check it out on Netflix. The Watchmen tells the tale of two generations of vigilantes who take the law into their own...
by mvboronowski | Apr 1, 2015 | Adaptability
Cooking has long been a passion of mine. As an amateur cook (and armchair career advisor) feel there’s a lot of cross over between both these pastimes. Here are John and my top five tips that anyone can follow to be Jamie Oliver-esque, both in the kitchen and in the...
by mvboronowski | Mar 25, 2015 | Communication
Weddings, birthdays, dinner parties, and happy hours are events where people give toasts. We’ve all experienced incredibly touching toasts and we’ve cringed at the train wrecks, too. Great communicators are masters at honouring guests with toasts that are inclusive,...
by mvboronowski | Mar 18, 2015 | Learning & Thinking
This week folks in the Lower Mainland are voting on whether or not to support a 0.5 per cent congestion improvement tax and The Potentiality strongly encourages readers to vote ‘Yes’ in the plebiscite. Better public transit will get us to and from work faster, make...