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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...

I recently attended the Competency Based Education Network’s (CBEN) annual conference, “CBExchange”, this year held at the Omni Barton...

The problem solving competency, or “complex” problem solving as it is often called, is really all about dealing with interpersonal...

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...

Mihaly Csikszentmilayli’s passing last week was particularly ironic to me. I had been knee deep in his work since mid-September,...

polarity; noun the state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects. creative abrasion; noun the state of...

In years of coaching students and corporate executives, on how to conquer the dreaded oral presentation, my number one piece of advice...

This past weekend, on what might have been the perfect autumn afternoon in Calgary, my daughters and I explored the Calgary Zoo. It had...

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. ...

We’re told that uncertainty is the enemy. The market hates uncertainty and yet as investor/philanthropist George Soros contends, ”money...

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...

Dear Learner, You begin this learning season in a dense, stubborn fog of uncertainty, fear and anger. Not an optimal environment for...

The creativity competency is all about solving old problems in new ways. Its more academic label, design thinking, walks us through an...

One of the greatest fallacies of the concept of collaboration is that there is usually, if not always, compromise involved. That in...

One the greatest communication puzzles has to do with the challenge of human motivation. Let’s face it, anything having to do with human...