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• Who’s in your sleigh? A reflection for a smoother ride.

  

  We don’t always get to choose who we we work with, or even live with, but we can choose to be open, accepting and thankful. In my family, we are all very different, but we are all Fords. And we always be: diversity is a reality, but inclusion is a choice.

  Claire Maria Ford

  December 27, 2022

  connecting, corporate culture, diversity and inclusion, human resources, industrial relations, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  corporate culture, diversity, family, inclusion, professional development, wellbeing, workplace relations, workplace welling

• So what’s your story? Someone may be needing to hear it.

  John Koenig writes in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: It’s a calming thing, to learn there’s a word for something you’ve felt all your life but didn’t know was shared by anyone else. In my daily work as language coach, when a student confesses how overwhelmed they feel regarding a complicated situation with a colleague,…

  Claire Maria Ford

  December 10, 2022

  Uncategorized

  johnkoenig, marknepo, sharingiscaring, stories, story

• Living the Dream, the Covid Dream!

  

  “Wow, you’re living the dream!”, I exclaimed. “My student shot back wryly, “Yeah! The Covid Dream!” The exchange took place in a class this morning. I had just seen her husband walk by in the background getting a loaf of bread out of the freezer. My student explained that they were going to have French…

  Claire Maria Ford

  July 15, 2020

  covid-19, Uncategorized