With social media replacing the space traditionally held by water coolers, professionals need to keep themselves in check and understand that instead of a handful of colleagues, the whole world is listening in, significantly elevating the risk and consequences.
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Every organization, whether private, public, or not-for-profit, will experience their fair share of issues, crises, and abuse on their social media channels. Here are some best practices for handling these correspondences.
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As advisers, by bringing discomfort and presenting hard truths, we prepare management to make informed decisions.
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Your organization will face a crisis. It’s a question of when, not if, and entirely out of your control. What you can control is your response.
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“Artificial intelligence isn’t going to take our jobs—it is going to empower us to perform at a higher level than ever before. Technology, in combination with human imagination, creates magic.”
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Think of the deepest, most powerful truth you can tell your audience. Shape the canvas of your speech from there.
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To be present and successful, organizations need to focus on capturing audiences during their micro-moments—instances when they’re searching for information while in the middle of an activity.
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Michael Meath, crisis communications expert and visiting professor at Syracuse University made time to share the blueprints for how he approaches each challenge.
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“There has ever been a better time to start a business in Canada and there’s never been a better time to be Canadian”. Bruce Croxon's closing words captured the spirit of Startup Canada Day on the Hill.
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If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Here's how to tell if the award nomination you received in your inbox is legitimate or an attempt to take advantage of you.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a necessity for any organization with a digital presence to remain accessible, competitive, and authoritative.
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Everyone has a story about the lengths students will go to cheat. While academic dishonesty is not disappearing, the use of digital technology may serve as a deterrent.
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ABET and CEAB accreditation are a necessity for engineering and technology programs across Canada and the United States to remain competitive, attract the brightest students, and ensure strong employability rates.
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In the past three years I’ve traveled over 50,000km across Canada’s railway network. It’s given me unprecedented opportunity to explore my country, forge lasting friendships, and build my business. I wouldn’t trade my time on the train for the world and--given Canada’s upcoming 150thanniversary of Confederation--I encourage more Canadians take to the rails to explore our beautiful country.
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Singapore’s education system may produce students who lead in reading, mathematics, and science, but they receive failing grades when it comes to innovation. In order to remedy this Singapore’s Ministry of Education implemented the “Teach Less, Learn More” policy in 2006 to alleviate some academic pressure and produce more well-rounded students.
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Does this scenario sound familiar? After days of writing comments, correcting errors, and trading pages in a cramped campus room, the last assessment is finally graded and placed like a crown on a stack of booklets as tall as your desk. You’re eager to get these assessments—brimming with feedback—into the hands of your students, and you wait for them to be collected.
And you wait.
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Andrew Eberhard, a Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland, is responsible for teaching and grading thousands of undergraduate students each year. While Andrew has a genuine passion for teaching he quickly found grading to be a logistical nightmare.
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While two-stage evaluation formats have been used for lower-stake exercises and quizzes in classes across a number of academic disciplines, the University of British Columbia is one of the first schools to formally incorporate the format into high-stakes tests such as midterms and final examinations.
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Assessments—whether they are exams, homework, lab reports, and group work—should be activities designed to enrich and improve student learning. Assessments should encourage students to push their boundaries, foster their intellectual curiosity, and think critically about the academic subjects they are studying.
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