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It's been 6 months since my last post. As a boy raised in Catholic dogma, whenever I state words in that cadence I am immediately taken...
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David Gaudet
Nov 15, 20213 min read
The Preacher Teacher
I recently attended the Competency Based Education Network’s (CBEN) annual conference, “CBExchange”, this year held at the Omni Barton...
David Gaudet
Nov 7, 20214 min read
Talking To Your Soul
The problem solving competency, or “complex” problem solving as it is often called, is really all about dealing with interpersonal...
David Gaudet
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Unexpect the Expected
I'm entering into the prototype stage of my Innovation and Design class at SAIT. My students, I think, by this time have gotten over...
David Gaudet
Oct 23, 20214 min read
Libri aut Liberi - Of Leaving a Legacy
Mihaly Csikszentmilayli’s passing last week was particularly ironic to me. I had been knee deep in his work since mid-September,...
David Gaudet
Oct 17, 20215 min read
Finding Creative Abrasion in Polarity
polarity; noun the state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects. creative abrasion; noun the state of...
David Gaudet
Oct 11, 20213 min read
Permission to Sweat
In years of coaching students and corporate executives, on how to conquer the dreaded oral presentation, my number one piece of advice...
David Gaudet
Oct 3, 20214 min read
Curiosity's Curious Connection to Happiness
This past weekend, on what might have been the perfect autumn afternoon in Calgary, my daughters and I explored the Calgary Zoo. It had...
David Gaudet
Sep 26, 20215 min read
Confronting a Crisis of Conscience
Earlier this year I had an epiphany. One that others had had long before me, and one for which I wish deeply I had had earlier as well. ...
David Gaudet
Sep 18, 20213 min read
Undoing Uncertainty
We’re told that uncertainty is the enemy. The market hates uncertainty and yet as investor/philanthropist George Soros contends, ”money...
David Gaudet
Sep 9, 20214 min read
Why Problems are Problems and Your Role in Solving Them
How do you deal with problems that crop up in your life? I don’t mean the kinds of problems that gnaw at your soul and rob you of sleep...
David Gaudet
Sep 2, 20213 min read
Open Letter to Learners
Dear Learner, You begin this learning season in a dense, stubborn fog of uncertainty, fear and anger. Not an optimal environment for...
David Gaudet
Aug 26, 20214 min read
Facebook's Obsession with Design
The creativity competency is all about solving old problems in new ways. Its more academic label, design thinking, walks us through an...
David Gaudet
Aug 19, 20213 min read
The Collaboration FallacyOne of the greatest fallacies of the concept of collaboration is that there
One of the greatest fallacies of the concept of collaboration is that there is usually, if not always, compromise involved. That in...
David Gaudet
Aug 12, 20215 min read
Stop Prodding for Poking: Why Vaccination Campaigns Aren't Working
One the greatest communication puzzles has to do with the challenge of human motivation. Let’s face it, anything having to do with human...
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