6 Insider Interview Rules to Getting the Job

Interview rules: Excited businesswoman or candidate being interviewed by managers - interview concept

Your heart is racing. You’ve been searching for months. You want this job so badly – you can taste it. Your hands are sweating. You have the skills, but you struggle in sealing the deal at the interview. A story we have heard literally hundreds of times in our line of work… and with good […]

A Hierarchy of Needs for the 21st Century Workplace

modern workplace hierarchy of needs

A simple guide to improving workplace engagement by taking care of your employees’ needs.  Food, safety, love, and esteem. These are considered the most basic needs required for humans to survive in society, based on Maslow’s infamous Hierarchy of Needs, developed in 1943. But what about surviving in the modern workplace? Certainly our needs there […]

The Benefits of Gender Equality In the Workplace

gender equality workplace

Currently, women are offered better access to flexible working, there is more support for maternity pay, and women generally have better qualifications than men. In today’s modern times, however, although the laws are in place for gender equality and equal pay, inequality and a pay gap remains in many workplaces across the nation. Workplace gender […]

Interview with #CLOCANADA’s Speaker: Fran Hansen, VP of Talent & Culture at Loblaw

Fran Hansen will be at CLO Exchange Canada

Recently, we got the chance to interview one of the incredible speakers of the Chief Learning Officer Exchange Canada, happening this July 23-25, in Toronto. In her role as the VP of Talent & Culture of Loblaw, Fran Hansen is responsible for the design, development and implementation of all strategies, programs and policies relating to […]

Emotional Intelligence: Two Simple Lessons

Emotional intelligence

“We should take care not to make the intellect our God. It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve.” – Albert Einstein Emotional Intelligence (EI) can be defined as the capability of individuals to recognize their own, and other people’s emotions, to discern between different feelings and […]

Homeless In The Workplace, It Happens.

Homeless in the workplace

Homeless In The Workplace, It Happens. I once worked with the poster child of an Administrative Assistant. He was always energetic, very prompt, a PowerPoint whiz and a master of streamlining processes. A college-educated young man who never seemed to have a bad day. Even though he was homeless. Several clues led to this revelation. […]

5 Ways to Increase Productivity in the Workplace

  5 Ways to Increase Productivity in the Workplace Within the workplace, a productive team is a motivated one, and similarly, a motivated team is a happy one. Therefore, it makes sense that you should put your employees’ happiness first in order to guarantee that your team is working as effectively as possible and help […]

HRchat: Company Culture, Leadership and Innovation w/ Pam Ross [podcast]

In this episode of HRchat, Bill Banham asks Pam Ross about her career story and how she came to be a well-known speaker, culture catalyst, community builder and innovator within social HR. Oakville, Ontario-based Pam Ross is a speaker, culture catalyst, influencer in social HR, founder of #impact99 and the #reinventwork summit, traveler, dog lover […]