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Have you ever heard the words, “Watch your tone!”? Are you sending the right message? Are people hearing what you mean to say or are they only hearing how you say it? In our last blog we looked at…

By law, as of January 1, 2021, all public sector organizations and private or non-profits organizations with 50+ employees must make their web content fully accessible and compliant under Ontario’s We…

Watch what you don’t say. I have heard people talk about ‘finding their voice.” But, what do you do if you can’t use words? It was 2 a.m. and we had just arrived at the Bangkok, Thailand airpo…

The Covid 19 pandemic is creating a massive strain on resources in communities across Canada. Human service solutions in education, justice, social and health were never designed to take on this much…

De-complexify the mysteries of organizational life. This fourth article in the series further explores the what, why, and how of the Five Driving Needs framework. Belonging. Security. Freedom. Signi…

The pandemic continues to rapidly expand in communities across Canada. At the time of this article over 267,000 Canadians have contracted the disease, 217,000 are recovered and 10,552 died. The number…

Powerfully productive days are the result of energized brains If a person’s natural M.O. is to contribute and make a difference but they are blocked from doing so, it produces an unmet need. This cre…

Learn why need-meeting is now central to the healthy function of your organization. Fifty years ago, Drs. Edward Deci and Richard Ryan began exploring what produces vitality in humans. Their work evo…

Your powerfully productive day is the result of an energized brain. Imagine yourself at the end of a powerfully productive day. You became so immersed in your work you lost all track of time. Every t…

We recently heard about a debate among certain public sector organizations on whether the trade agreements apply to the procurement of insurance. To help clarify things, we decided to answer this ques…

I found myself in a very strange situation for the first time in 25-years of doing this thing we call, “search”.  Suddenly I had candidates, and I had a search committee, but the two were separated by…