How to Use Your Hobbies to Improve Your Professional Work

The Hidden Connection Between What You Do After Hours and How You Work Most people treat hobbies and work like separate compartments. You clock out, leave the office mindset behind, and dive into something completely different. But what if the skills you build painting miniature figures or assembling historical models could actually make you better […]
The Art of Staying Organized: What Administrative Work Has Taught Me About Managing Complexity

By Scott Kresan Tilbe, Barrie, ON Organization Is More Than Keeping a List I used to think being organized meant having everything written down and knowing where things were. There is some truth to that, but working in administration has taught me that organization is really about something more difficult: knowing what needs your attention […]
Where Creativity Meets Technology: How Design Thinking Can Improve the Way We Work

By Scott Kresan Tilbe, Barrie, ON Creativity Is Not Just About Making Things For a long time, I thought of creativity and technology as two separate interests. Creativity was about making something, while technology was about figuring out how something worked. The more I learned about web design, computer science, administration, and other areas of […]