CAN DIVERSITY CREATE A MORE PRODUCTIVE TEAM?

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You have a team made up of people from a variety of cultures – Canadian, African, Jamaican, Irish, Indigenous, genders – male, female, ages – millennials to traditionalists and people with disabilities. All you want is for everyone to get along. After all, you are proud of having a diverse organization providing opportunities for the best person to fill the job ensuring different thinking, behaviour and emotional styles. Continue reading

POSITIVE MOVES FOR SUCCESS

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Success starts inside! It really is a matter of how you look at your world and what you are prepared to do about it. According to the Saskatchewan Labour Demand Report for 2018 to 2022 there are 98,700 forecasted in Saskatchewan and about 76% of those being due to retirements. The Boomers are moving out in big numbers so that leaves plenty of room for you to show your value to the organization.
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GET READY, IT’S A TSUNAMI

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Recently I was chatting with a client – considered a small business with fewer than 100 employees. There is a need for a position to be filled and after trying and trying they decided it was time to outsource the search. The result – a filled position!
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IS IT TIME FOR A NEW LOOK?

 

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Casey couldn’t understand why his organization was losing ground. Projects weren’t getting completed, people were frustrated and staff were taking new jobs! It finally dawned on him when he talked with his remaining staff about the lack of initiative he was seeing.
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  GOT BULLYING IN YOUR WORKPLACE?

 

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Chances are you do in one shape or another. Bullying can be offensive comments or jokes, aggressive behaviour, inappropriate staring, sexual harassment, and even isolating or making fun of a worker because of his or her gender identity.
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ONLY READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT WORK

 

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Success is truly in the eye of the beholder – yet many people fail to realize it is in the eye of others that makes the difference. Continue reading

August 2018

 

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Hiring Someone Over 45 – You’re Kidding

It’s true, many employers consider someone over 45 to beyond the hiring age! Crazy, I know! What they fail to realize is the science of neurological abilities of an individual do not decline until well into the mid-70’s – that’s according to Crawford 2004 and cited in Gosling in 2011.
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Is it Rude to Not Return Phone Calls?

IS IT RUDE TO NOT RETURN PHONE CALLS?It drives me nuts! On any given day I am on the phone – calling clients, friends and prospects. Guess which ones never get returned? If you guessed all three you are right – there are times when clients, friends and prospects don’t return calls – I bet this is a surprise. You probably thought it’s only prospects that don’t return calls. Wrong! Continue reading