Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
Reader's Moment There is a ledger many of us carry without naming it. It does not live in a spreadsheet. It does not sit in a binder. It does not ask for receipts. It lives in the chest, the stomach, the jaw, the 3 a.m. replay, the apology you keep giving long after the facts … Continue reading The Shame Ledger Lies Under Pressure
Based on Chapters 4 and 5 of McShane and Warner's Canadian Organizational Behaviour, 12th Canadian Edition. This Week 4 learning journal brings together two connected parts of Organizational Behaviour: emotions, attitudes, stress, and employee motivation. Read together, these chapters show that workplace behaviour is rarely simple. People do not perform well only because they are … Continue reading Week 4 Learning Journal: What Drives People at Work
Organizational Behaviour on the Ledge: What We Have Learned So Far Standing on the Ledge began as a record of collapse, but the Organizational Behaviour learning journals have started to give that collapse a working language. At first, SOTL was about impact: what happens when the floor drops out, when work disappears, when trust breaks, … Continue reading Learning to See the System
This is Week 3.5 because the reading guide and facilitator guide did not line up with the same material, which means I missed a chapter. This entry corrects that gap and brings the material into one continuous learning journal. The chapter matters because it deals with something underneath almost every workplace decision: self-concept, how people … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Week 3.5
Life seems to move in cycles. At least, mine does. I do not know if that is a universal truth, a psychological pattern, a sociological pattern, or just the way I have learned to read the map of my own life. But when I look back, I can see it. Careers change. Relationships change. Communities … Continue reading Life in Cycles: Growth, Change, and Identity
Personality, Values, Jungian Type Theory, the Dark Triad, and Perception in Organizations MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour Topic focus: This journal entry reviews Chapter 2 of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, 12th Edition, including personality, the nature-versus-nurture debate, the Five-Factor Model, Jungian personality theory, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Dark Triad, and values. It also extends the reflection into … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour — Week 3 Learning Journal
The Evidence Ledger is not a place to relive the wound. It is a place to preserve what happened clearly enough that your next step can be based on facts, not fog.
Money pressure gets louder in the dark. Night Numbers turns financial panic back into a page you can work with.
A learning-journal bridge between conflict styles, the Five-Factor Model, and the way personality shows up under pressure inside organizations.
Effective Communication Is More Than Sending a Message This week’s Organizational Behaviour reading focused on communication, and the more I worked through it, the more I realized that communication is not simply “person A sends a message and person B receives it.” That is the simple version. The real version is messier. Effective communication happens … Continue reading MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour: Week 2 Learning Journal
Standing on the Ledge 