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Compassion: The Ultimate Super-Power
If you love compassion, compassionate action can become your best asset, your super-power.

April Dawn Shinske
Nov 85 min read
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Embrace Your Square
Then, almost by a miracle, on just the right day at just the right moment, when I was questioning just how to navigate, Deborah unwittingly gave me a sign. She found it in an old file she was cleaning out. Deborah found the now ancient worksheet that held my odd square.

April Dawn Shinske
Nov 24 min read
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I Don't Have Time for This Blog
I don't have time for this blog, but I'm resurrecting it anyway. It's taken me almost 50 years of living to realize that a great many of the things we think are most important aren't, and the things we woefully push to the margins when other duties call might just matter most: art, writing, music, or even the simple act of picking up an imperfect autumn leaf like a toddler and hanging it on the fridge as a reminder of crunchy fractured delight. You know very well the things I

April Dawn Shinske
Oct 302 min read
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Hometown, epicenter: loss, beauty and hope
Unforgettable I can still picture her -- a smiling woman with big glasses, a hearty quick laugh and seemingly constantly outstretched...

April Dawn Shinske
Mar 14, 202111 min read
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How to Greet the Seasons at Work 1-2-3
Seasons greetings. Ramadaan Kareem. Happy holidays. Joyous Kwanzaa. Happy Chanukah. Happy Diwali. Merry Christmas. Shanah Tovah. Lunar...

April Dawn Shinske
Dec 20, 20204 min read
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Situation Wanted - Meaningful Work
I am thirteen years old, and I am so proud: I have just gotten my first working papers. Each time it lands on my parents' front walk, I...

April Dawn Shinske
Oct 4, 20206 min read
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Craft Authentic Communications, Foster Belonging
Every business website I visit seems to have two alerts at the top of the page: Our response to COVID-19 How we're supporting...

April Dawn Shinske
Aug 30, 20205 min read
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5 Key Questions for People-First Internal Communications
The best internal communications prompt teams to: Know: Many staff communications are simply informational. Convey facts in ways that are...

April Dawn Shinske
Aug 22, 20203 min read
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Only Human - Putting People First In Every Pursuit
"I'm only human." That's a statement that a hard-driving, cerebral individual like me bristled at for years. The phrase, in my...

April Dawn Shinske
Aug 19, 20203 min read
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