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Job Hopping – Strategic or Problematic?

Posted on July 16th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Personal Success, Self Management, Work - Life Balance

Job Hopping – What does it mean in today’s business world? Job hopping is a term that means different things to different people. Why? Because it can depend on industry, situation, generation and/or decade. Generically, most people [ … ] Read More

Culture of Innovation

Posted on May 28th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Team Building

Create | Innovate | Grow Corporate culture is a commonly used term that often means different things to different people. In some cases it may be considered as nothing more than a buzz word. Make no mistake, [ … ] Read More

Soft Skills are Hard Necessities

Posted on May 7th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Inspiration, Personal Success, Self Management, Team Building

People underperform because they lack soft skills. Regardless of profession, industry or niche, every role occupied by every person requires two very broad categories of skills – hard skills and soft skills. Technical skills and Non-technical skills. [ … ] Read More

Soft “How Well You Fit In” Skills

Posted on April 30th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, Leadership Matters, Personal Success, Team Building

Soft Skills Determine the ‘Fit’ that Impacts Careers Soft skills are those personal qualities, habits, characteristics, traits and attitudes that are not traditionally taught in schools or even on the job. Many successful people have developed [ … ] Read More

All about that Base (Hard & Soft Skills Mix)

Posted on April 23rd, 2015 | Career Advancement, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Self Management, Team Building

The Right Mix of Soft Skills + Hard Skills One of the biggest challenges facing companies today is the skills gap. Is this gap limited to a short supply of technical skills? Accounting? Law? Technology? [ … ] Read More

Create the Calm & Kill the Stress

Posted on April 2nd, 2015 | Goals, Inspiration, Personal Success, Seasonal Content, Self Management, Work - Life Balance

Create the Calmness this Month April is National Stress Awareness Month. The day was started by the Health Resource Network (HRN) in 1992 to raise awareness of stress and offer 30 days of attention to educating [ … ] Read More

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 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

Leadership Courage: Your Formula For Success

Posted on September 25th, 2014 | Career Advancement, Goals, Guest Blogger, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Personal Success, Self Management

It has been said that to be courageous, one must possess optimism, passion, realism and the ability to take action. Business today requires a significant amount of courage – more so than ever before – the [ … ] Read More

Managing from the Middle

Posted on September 5th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Team Building

The Middle Makes it Happen In just about everything – life, work, and politics — the middle is extremely complex. Being in the middle of the business can be a difficult place. “Middleness” is particularly challenging when [ … ] Read More