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Managing Holiday Season Stress

Posted on December 8th, 2018 | Guest Blogger, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Personal Success, Seasonal Content, Work - Life Balance

The Dark Side of the Season: How Leaders Can Help Employees Cope With Holiday Stress By Marissa Levin, Founder & CEO, Successful Culture @marissalevin Holidays aren’t always happy. Here’s how stress seeps into the workplace and what leaders can [ … ] Read More

The Basics of Change

Posted on September 5th, 2018 | Corporate Culture, Goals, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Inspiration, Management Concepts

I recently came across this article and found it quite extraordinary. Although it is European in orgin, it is very appropriate in the North America market. My gratitude to the author, Kurt Brand, who gave his [ … ] Read More

New on the Job? First Days

Posted on August 20th, 2018 | Career Advancement, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Inspiration, Personal Success, Self Management

How to Adapt Quickly to a New Job at a New Company First days are always something we dread. From your first day in kindergarten, down to those palm sweating interviews while looking for work. And [ … ] Read More

What Makes a Good Leader?

Posted on March 8th, 2018 | Career Advancement, Guest Blogger, Leadership Matters, Personal Success, Self Management

How Do You Know if You Can Be a Good Leader? It’s not always easy to gauge whether or not you’re ready to lead. As the old saying goes, “leaders are made, not born.” Amidst problems [ … ] Read More

Trust and Trustworthiness

Posted on June 16th, 2016 | Corporate Culture, Guest Blogger, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Personal Success, Self Management, Team Building

Trust and Trustworthiness All too often, we talk about “trust” as if it was a singular thing. In a social context, trust has several connotations. Trust can be attributed to relationships between people – those relationships established [ … ] Read More

TALENT FLEEING VANCOUVER

Posted on April 14th, 2016 | Guest Blogger, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Job Search, News, Work - Life Balance

Why is talent (the young candidate in particular) choosing to leave the most beautiful city on the planet and moving away? This is a very unfortunate reality in [ … ] Read More

Managerial Courage is a Winning Skill

Posted on March 10th, 2016 | Career Advancement, Guest Blogger, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Personal Success, Self Management

Managerial Courage – Undoubtedly, this is the single most enviable quality that distinguishes great leaders and ensures respect from team managers and high-potential employees. In business today there seems to always be an increasingly level of uncertainty, [ … ] Read More

The Gap Between What Leaders Want and What Recruiters Deliver

Posted on February 18th, 2016 | Career Advancement, Guest Blogger, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Team Building

The Harvard Business Review published a great article, “The Gap Between What Leaders Want and What Recruiters Deliver” written by By Sue Marks on February 16, 2016. This article addresses the subject of ‘gap’ that so often exists [ … ] Read More

English – Its Value & Its Quirks

Posted on January 14th, 2016 | Career Advancement, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Inspiration, Interesting Trivia, Job Search, Personal Success

English is the most widely used language in the world for trade, commerce, politics, international relations, entertainment and music. It is also quickly becoming the standard language of science. Certain industries, such as the shipping and [ … ] Read More

Leading in Dangerous Times

Posted on May 21st, 2015 | Career Advancement, Guest Blogger, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Personal Success, Self Management, Team Building

Some may argue that in today’s world, leading is always dangerous – whether it is as a first time manager promoted within their exisiting company, or as a new manager hired to work in a new [ … ] Read More