Six Workplace Collaboration Tips from Brooklyn 99
The Emmy Award and Golden Globe winning hit Fox sitcom Brooklyn 99 is one of my favourite TV shows. I want to be friends with Jake Peralta, I want to be mentored by Ray Holt, and my wife has a lot of Amy Santiago characteristics. The detectives from the 99 (said “the...
Four tips (from around the world) for taking a child’s birthday party to the next level
My son will turn one this year and I worry we’ll feel pressure to throw him a big party this October (and pretty much every other October until he hits puberty). While my son won’t be aware of Canadian birthday party traditions this young, my wife and I sure are....
How to Enhance Personal Well-being Through Acts of Kindness
At 33, I found myself filled with anger, sadness and fear. I knew I needed a change. So, when I turned 34 last month, resolving made a commitment to embrace love, peace, and purpose. I learned how to enhance personal well-being through acts of kindness. Well-being and...
How to Spread Kindness in Your Community
This Saturday I will be giving a presentation at the University of British Columbia's Student Leadership Conference (it's the biggest and most awesome student-run conference in North America). Drawing on this year’s theme - "Be Infinite" - my talk is entitled...
How We Will Reach Our Potential in 2014
Our Potential in 2014 Mike, Kurt and I will know that 2014 has realized its potential when we see streamlined focus on family, hands-on experimentation, and envelope-pushing career growth flourishing in our lives. These are the hopes and aspirations of The...
ActiveHistory.ca Enhances Community Potential
The Opener | How the past informs our communities' potential The Potentiality inspires and educates passionate community builders. One of the ways we do this is by featuring organizations (businesses, social enterprises, schools, and non-profits) that are doing cool...
7 Tips for Working in the Information Economy
Ages ago the world of work was a much simpler place. For the vast majority of people working within the industrialized and industrializing nations, the work day was divided into eight hour chunks to maintain constant progress and enable consistent efficiencies. In a...
How to Harness Your Inner Child
Harness Your Inner Child Many of my friends, colleagues, family members, and even outright strangers comment about my positive energy. "Wow, you're a happy guy," they observe. The reason for my having such enthusiasm is pretty simple: I love life. And I want to teach...
Five Tips for Engaging Online Communities
After a month of intense campaigning, The Potentiality earned the third most votes in CERIC’s National Career Challenge. Our submission, Career Swap, finished ahead of a university, several college career centres as well as a number of community-based organizations....
Three Reasons to Embrace Co-opetition
Embrace Co-opetition Co-opetition means working together to achieve mutually beneficial results and this article will explore three reasons to embrace co-opetition in your business, community, school, and life endeavours. For example, co-opetition amongst business...
How to be a Vulnerable Leader
How to be a vulnerable leader Taken in the context of leadership, specifically within the workplace, how does vulnerability make one a better leader? This article will explore how to be a vulnerable leader. For the past few years, Brene Brown has been talking about...
Add Value by How You Think and Learn
Add Value by How You Think The Potentiality’s Cartoonist in Residence, Phil Skipper, has an interesting take on thinking and learning. Here is how Phil captured our personal and collective definitions of thinking and learning: “Learning & Thinking means finding new...
What the Rob Ford Saga Means for Communicators
As the Rob Ford saga spirals from unreal to depressing, it has made me consider my profession (communications and public relations) and just how important its central tenets are for corporate or political survival. Over the years, as I’ve worked for both a PR agency...