Workplace

Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act....

Do names matter to you? Do you react differently to people based on their name? We humans tend to associate certain characteristics with people based on their names – unconscious...

Such a small raise won’t address the purported labour shortage in the province. In fact, despite widespread calls to meaningfully hike wages for often low-paid front-line workers since the pandemic...

The marketplace for talent has shifted. You need to think of your employees like customers and put thoughtful attention into retaining them. This is the first step to slow attrition...

The past five years have seen the rise of tumultuous events and technologies affecting virtually every industry and economy ranging from health care to transportation. These events and technologies include...

We need to understand the realities of workers and develop a regional approach that addresses the impact of companies on our cities and communities....

Burnout hits when work fails to live up to our expectations. Because as it turns out, work – like any relationship – isn't the be-all, end-all we’d thought it could be....

Companies’ insistence on using generational differences as a shortcut to understand and appease their workers is emblematic of what’s wrong with corporate culture today, wherein buzzwords are a replacement for...

Striking the perfect work-life balance, if there is such a thing, isn’t necessarily about tinkering with when, where and how we work – it’s a question of why we work....

In our work helping clients with their career development and decision making, we often pose questions to help them take small, compounding actions that generate momentum, confidence and personal agency:...