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Collaboration Platforms — Social & Technical & Environmental

Within today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environment that has now become our New Normal experience, many methods for designing and organizing workplaces exist.  However, these approaches typically separate rather than integrate the social and technical systems in organizations. …

Helen Maupin

Radical Transformation — The Innovation Age

In 1967, The Young Rascals sang, “How can I be sure in a world that’s constantly changing?” At that point in time, the world was attempting to shake off the conformity to standards that prevailed as a result of the…

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Mindfulness II — It’s Art and Science

In last week’s blog, Mindfulness — In Pursuit of Wisdom, I equated mindfulness or calm awareness in the present moment to an elevated state of consciousness.  Being conscious of one’s thoughts, words and deeds and their impact in the world provides…

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Mindfulness I — In Pursuit of Wisdom

 Wayne Dyer refers to mindfulness as paying attention to “what’s happening right here and right now, independent of my opinion about it.”  In today’s business jargon, mindful people are those who have excellent social, cultural and emotional intelligence and skills. From…

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Relationships, Relevance & Retention — A Design Solution

Whether you are a business owner, an employee, an internal training specialist, a keynote speaker, an event organizer or an organization designer, you are being impacted by a trend some refer to as “experience innovation.”  This new discipline moves away from…

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Wake Up to Workplace Wellbeing III — Team Development

What do you see as the allure of working or playing on a team?  Learning a new skill?  Making new friends?  Increasing your happiness quotient, i.e., your positive emotions?  Martin Seligman discovered the difference between extremely happy and extremely miserable…

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Wake Up to Workplace Wellbeing II — Teamwork

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.     messages.365greetings.com Last week’s blog created such a positive response from readers I decided to continue along its theme of workplace wellbeing.  Wellbeing, from my perspective, focuses our attention on what we want to…

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Wake Up to Workplace Wellbeing

It’s time we wake up to the fact we have created toxic workplace environments that may not be killing us outright but certainly are destroying our health, happiness, humanity and creativity.  Unfortunately, this has been going on far too long. …

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Forget Goals — Favour Systems & Structures

It is that time of year again when we find ourselves developing a set of personal and professional goals for 2014.  Whether it is organizations requesting services for strategic planning or individuals desiring coaching support, December and January bring forth…

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(R)evolution — An aRm of Evolution

You say you want a revolution Well you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution Well you know We all want to change the world The Beatles When we consider the word revolution,…

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Compassion — A 3-Step Formula

When attempting to define compassion, many begin by describing it as non-judgment.  As someone who wishes to focus on what I want in life rather than what I don’t want (negativity), I would much rather describe the experience of compassion…

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BE REAL — Are You Doing Your Part?

Life isn’t a business to be managed, it’s a mystery to be lived.     Osho  In a recent speaking engagement, I used archetypes to help those attending answer the following question — Who am I Really?  An archetype is an…

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