How to Assemble the Ultimate Dream Team With Dunbar’s Number(s)
by Victoria Donovan on Apr 28, 2021 9:22:00 AM
The Justice League has 6 members. The Ghostbusters had 4. The Scooby-Doo gang has 5. When leading a new project, the team you assemble is critical. To bring together the ultimate dream team, you must evaluate skills, time, budgets, and perhaps most importantly, the number of people. I …
‘The Office’ in Sync: How Dunder Mifflin Could Have Benefited from the Cloud
by Victoria Donovan on Mar 29, 2021 7:01:47 AM
Michael Scott once described an office as “a place to live life to the fullest, to the max,” yet we know that Dunder Mifflin was not really doing anything to the max…other than chaos, maybe. In the hit NBC TV show The Office, which ran from 2005 to 2013, the fictional organization Dun …
How to Communicate Effectively with Your Team
by Samantha on Mar 29, 2021 5:19:49 AM
Attention leaders: Effective communication can have a significant impact on the well-being and success of your team, and by extension, your entire organization. But with two-thirds of managers reporting that they feel uncomfortable communicating with their employees, it’s clear that c …
COVID-19 got you Down? 6 Ways to Fight Pandemic Fatigue and Stay Positive
by Samantha on Feb 12, 2021 7:54:47 AM
What do you miss most from before the pandemic? I miss getting coffee with friends. You know, sitting back in those comfy café chairs, watching and listening to people milling about in the moment and savouring that sweet dark roast aroma in the air. All while catching up in person, fa …
How to Prevent Burnout—and Build a Thriving Team
by Kristen Marano on Jan 28, 2021 8:35:27 AM
Leaders, not workers, are responsible to manage organizational stress. Here are three steps to start. While reviewing our team performance this past year, something stood out: by December, typically a time to feel stressed, we were energized and gaining momentum in ways we hadn’t in t …
Feeling Overwhelmed? Here’s how to get Through the Week
by Kristen Marano on Dec 16, 2020 7:51:50 AM
Keep calm while you tackle your to-do list. If you’re worrying, “I have so much to do and not enough time,” you’re not alone. With the holidays approaching, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed by mounting work and the pressure of hosting and gifting. With more stress and less sleep, usual …
What Iconic Content Creators do to Overcome Mental Blocks
by Kristen Marano on Nov 25, 2020 11:23:01 AM
Movement is medicine. I caught a bad case of writer’s block in April. My creative spirit was dim, and I was desperate to get my mojo back. When a friend asked me to join her on a 127-kilometre hike, I initially said, “no,” because I should have been brainstorming stories. When my part …
How to Build a Winning Team at Work — Lessons from Women’s Soccer
by Kristen Marano on Nov 2, 2020 7:43:34 AM
Six strategies for success. With three games left in the season, my women’s soccer team won the league and claimed first place with a 13-point lead. It might surprise you that last year we were a losing team. We’re a skilled bunch who strategize, play our positions, and strike hard, b …
The Key to Resilient Teams? Cultivating Positive Emotion
by Kristen Marano on Sep 22, 2020 8:18:53 AM
People who practice vulnerability build a strong team foundation to navigate tomorrow, says The Resilience Project Founder Hugh van Cuylenburg.
5 Movies That Wouldn’t Be Movies—If Only For Sync
by Robert on Jul 18, 2014 8:37:40 AM
We love to be entertained, of course, and creating drama in a storyline makes for compelling movies and TV. But we can’t help noticing how many movies would be so much shorter if the characters just used Sync.