Leadership Voices – George Roter, The future of social change

lvOur video up this week is the last in George Roter’s Leadership Voices  series about making a difference in this world. Please join us in conversation.

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TO THE RESCUE – AME BC’s Mineral Exploration Magazine features Team Miracle

TMTEAM MIRACLE is raising the profile of mine rescue competitions – and mine safety practice. The team, which includes The Refinery’s Moira van den Akker and Angelica Tellez have been invited to participate in a demo at BC Mining week in Vancouver from April 28 to May 4, 2013.

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The Perfect Students by Mark Frein

I’m not a big fan of much of the language surrounding training and development.  It is gauche to call adults “students” as opposed to learners or some other term.  But for the most part, these changes are political as opposed to real.  We still teach/train students because they tend to want us to be teachers.  Some learn.  Some don’t.

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Tad’s Story by Mark Frein

When I announced a couple of weeks ago that we would be doing a piece of work with a major international natural beauty product retailer, it sparked some curiousity in our office. We have a pretty diverse set of clients, but beauty and health retail was a new industry for us.

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