Posted on Friday, 7th November 2008 by chris wignall

Yesterday I spent time talking with Regan Heffernan, principal of Abbey Park High School in Oakville. I had heard from some of his staff that he was a great person to work for, Abbey Park is a new school with an impressive reputation. Half and hour with Mr. Heffernan explains a big part of why.
When [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 16th October 2008 by chris wignall

My father worked for over 30 years in a steel factory. He worked hard, took courses at night, and eventually moved into a management role. But I’m pretty sure there wasn’t a day that he drove to work thinking “Now this is what I truly love to do!”
On the other hand I am part of [...]

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Posted on Monday, 28th July 2008 by chris wignall

When is leadership development not worthwhile?
I spent some time recently with my old friends at Medeba Adventure Learning Centre. I’ll confess that I’m biased in their favour. Several years ago I was part of their second class in the leadership internship program they’ve developed.
It was great to catch up with some old friends and see [...]

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Posted on Monday, 23rd June 2008 by chris wignall

This is my contribution to the synchroblog coordinated by the Blind Beggar. See all the other contributions here.
What is “Missional”?This is an intriguing thing; this “synchroblog”. A large part of me is very excited to participate and to read what other people have to say about the latest evangelical buzzword. I’m counting on a wide [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 11th June 2008 by chris wignall

On The Hour tonight one of the guests is Paul Polak, founder of IDE. He is leading advocate of what some people call Market Driven Development. The basic idea is that traditional charity efforts are doomed in part simply because they are based around giving things to needy people for free.
Polak and others argue [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 24th May 2008 by chris wignall

Today our mentoring program is really underway. I had initial goal setting sessions with two of our participants.
Goal setting is really the heart of the individual mentoring sessions. It’s a pretty simple process, but extremely valuable. The value comes in setting not only annual goals, but monthly targets toward those goals; and meeting monthly to [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 6th May 2008 by chris wignall

I recently told someone that if they want to understand the mind of Catalyst they should read our website; but if they want to understand our heart they should read this blog. This is where the less fully considered and critiqued ideas are expressed. It gives insight that the more refined text of the website [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 19th March 2008 by chris wignall

As I mentioned recently, I spent a couple days last week with representatives from the Salvation Army (Canada and Bermuda) who were brought together by the Territorial Youth Secretary David Ivany, who is a compulsive dreamer and committed champion to the youth and youth workers he serves. Our agenda was to develop a “manifesto” for [...]

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