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Mentoring Matters & Mentoring Works

Posted on January 5th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Inspiration, Personal Success, Seasonal Content, Self Management

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The subject of my first blog of January 2015 honours National Mentoring Month (NMM). Created in 2002 by the Harvard Business School, the month of January is dedicated to promoting mentoring. Originally aimed [ … ] Read More

The Merge into Next Year

Posted on December 19th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Leadership Matters, News, Team Building

The end (of the year) is near & we are (almost) ready to merge into 2015 The year is almost over and there are many things to reflect back on. Right now I’m focused on a [ … ] Read More

OutLook for 2015 Business

Posted on December 11th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Seasonal Content, Team Building, Technology Today, Work - Life Balance

OutLook for 2015 Business It is almost time to embrace ‘next year’ and all that will come our way. Yes, there will always be a couple of obstacles or hurtles to get past BUT at the same time [ … ] Read More

The Year in Review

Posted on December 4th, 2014 | Career Advancement, Goals, Inspiration, Personal Success, Seasonal Content, Self Management

Taking Stock – The Year in Review I don’t mean to scare you, but 2015 is right around the corner – maybe sooner than you think. Whether you will be spending the next three weeks thinking [ … ] Read More

Keys to Successful Virtual Work

Posted on November 27th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Management Concepts, Team Building, Work - Life Balance

Virtual work, virtual offices, remote work, telecommuting, telework – whatever term you use – it all means essentially the same thing – employees are working from multiple locations on a permanent or semi-permanent basis and relying [ … ] Read More

Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit

Posted on November 14th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts

Keeping your BEST people – the impact of company culture I recently came across the ‘Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit’ written Mel Kleiman. He has kindly agreed to my reposting his list. [ … ] Read More

Hiring to Build a Great Team

Posted on November 6th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Job Search, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Team Building

What’s so darn difficult when hiring to build a great team? In a recent survey, Direct Hiring Managers and HR Managers wanting to build a great team were asked to name what they considered to [ … ] Read More

10 Workplace Trends For 2015

Posted on November 3rd, 2014 | Hiring Talent, News, Technology Today

The following is an excerpt from Dan Schawbel, Forbes contributor, published online published October 29, 2014. Read full article here 10 Workplace Trends For 2015 Every year I give my top ten workplace trend predictions for [ … ] Read More

Diwala, Festival of Lights

Posted on October 22nd, 2014 | Inspiration, News, Personal Success, Work - Life Balance

Celebrated across the world Diwali (Dīvali, Dīpāwali, or Deepavali) is the biggest, brightest, most spectacular and sparkling event in the Indian calendar. In Canada the celebrations will begin Wednesday, October 22nd. Diwali is a Sanskrit word meaning “an array [ … ] Read More

Trust is the New Black

Posted on October 16th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Team Building

Image: Scott Burnham, Flickr Trust – the Core of Leadership I have some very strong feelings on the subject of trust. Personally, I believe that an organization based on trust is one cultivated with honesty and integrity. [ … ] Read More