Moving to Ontario?

Is Ontario still worth making your home?  I was born in Toronto, so I’ve always called Ontario my home.  It is hard for me to think of a better place to grow up in Canada.  That’s why it’s always interesting to get someone who was born in another country’s opinion on what makes Ontario a … Continue reading →

How is Your New Year’s Resolution Coming?

One of the most difficult things to do is maintain a New Year’s resolution.  While people assess the year they have had in the final days of December and look towards what they’d like to accomplish in the new year declarations of quitting smoking, eating better, and going to the gym are made. These three … Continue reading →

Achieve Goals with S.O.A.R.

It’s going to be a magnificent May!  It is the fifth month of the year, however, MicroSkills is going into the second month of our fiscal year.  Like many people do around the “New Year,” we made resolutions of sorts.  These resolutions took the form of assessing where we want MicroSkills to go in our … Continue reading →

Missing the Fun at Home

When I was a kid I hated the feeling that I was missing out on other people having fun.  If I was visiting family I always hid when the “5 Minute Warning” was shouted from another room. It was almost impossible to get me to take a nap or to accompany one of my parents … Continue reading →

Social Dynamics in the Workplace

One thing that remains a constant from childhood to adulthood is the fact that you’ll always need to negotiate the social dynamics of any given situation.  Like the post a couple of months ago, about the finer details of email etiquette, where the similarities between grade school politics and office politics were illustrated, this post … Continue reading →