Engagement vs. experience – advice for employers in a post-pandemic world
Businesses everywhere are talking about the current challenges of recruitment and retention and in the HR world we’re hearing a new buzzword. EX stands for Employee Experience, and experts are saying in the coming months and years it will replace what we’ve been...
Perspective
As we move into another Christmas and holiday season, there’s no doubt that many hearts are weary from the impacts of the last two years. While it feels most days like the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter, many of us are still living with uncertainty...
Are you setting up new leaders for success?
Jenny is a rock star employee. She is collaborative, decisive, a true self-starter who always over-delivers on the work she produces. Her teammates love her and her ambition tells her boss she has leadership potential. So he promotes Jenny from being an amazing...
Are You Staying Competitive in the Labour Market?
As businesses, large and small, cope with the realities of the workforce shortage, everyone is trying to figure out how to keep their employees. With many industries facing catastrophic shortages, where even losing one or two staff means closing the doors, retention...
Setting Up Remote Workers for Success
As we continue to see Covid numbers going down, businesses starting to re-open, and people returning to the office, the question on everyone’s mind is “will we ever return to ‘normal’”? Ideally, we would like to think we will soon experience “business as usual” but is...
The Performance Review Debate
To do or not to do annual performance reviews? That is a question being asked on a broad scale by businesses in all industries and by companies large and small. The tide has certainly already shifted from the traditional, static meetings where performance feedback is...
Business Resources for Navigating Current Realities
Things continue to change rapidly for businesses, and employers are facing new and never-before thought about issues –like how to navigate the realities of employee expectations around COVID, mandatory vaccinations and an unprecedented 64% of employees not wanting to...
Virtual Praise for a Job Well Done
In 2021, you’re likely working with either a full or partially remote team and from all predictions on work trends, this will remain the norm for some time to come. How do you need to shift to engage a remote or mixed workforce as effectively as when everyone is in...
Mindful Leadership
Mindful Leadership There was a time when leaders were revered and respected for being sharp, decisive, competitive, even ruthless in the pursuit of their organizational goals. As long as they delivered results, accountability was not necessary, and many a company ran...