If you missed our “Transforming Workforce” event last week, the panelists did a spectacular job and sparked some interesting conversations. Here are a few of the key themes… The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here! “Digital technology” is not a skillset but a mindset. Customer needs and workforce needs are changing and the balance between digital and human is...
What happens when your mind becomes your injury? It’s Mental Health Awareness week so we wanted to share a thought provoking story from one of our colleagues about their mental health journey A work colleague of mine recently fractured his ankle and is sporting a very colourful cast on his lower leg. It’s easy to spot his injury. Of course,...
What do robots and workplaces have in common? It all starts with this video recently published by Hank Green. The video explores the idea that in the internet community we are all wearing robot suits! Not real robot suits, but external appearances that affect how people perceive and interact with us. With a stray tweet, someone with a giant...
A professor walks into a lecture hall and glances around at a packed house of students typing away on screens. As the clock indicates it’s time to get started, she clears her throat and asks everyone to put their laptops away before class. The students all freeze, looking at each other with incredulity. This must be some sort of joke,...
Last December, I met up with a group of awesome people in Laguna Beach, CA. We ran along the beach together. Shared personal stories that made us laugh and cry. Ate some good food. Even spent time volunteering for local organizations. No, this was not a vacation with my oldest friends — it was the Aha! semi-annual company meeting. And...
Don Yaeger has received his fair share of inspirational advice. As someone who has spent his career studying high performers, first as a sports journalist and then as the author of numerous celebrity biographies, he has had firsthand insight into the lives of some of the world’s greatest professionals and what makes them so successful. But of all the tips...
After fiddling around with my work-frame concept last weekend I’ve thought a bit more about my own performance improvement…. by which I mean how I get better at what I do. I want to get better not because I don’t think I’m good enough (although I did for many years) but because I’m alive, growing and developing in so many...
Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon in the 1950s when he began noticing a strange pattern among his patients. When Dr. Maltz would perform an operation — like a nose job, for example — he found that it would take the patient about 21 days to get used to seeing their new face. Similarly, when a patient had an arm...
