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Overall, 73 per cent of Canadians want employers to invest more in digital training for their workers. And 65 per cent say people today expect their employers to provide cutting-edge...

If you’re generally happy except for one particular issue, it’s worth talking to your boss about it before you quit. The author offers recommendations for how to handle conversations around...

The skills shortage is so acute the private sector is stepping up training programs tailored for the jobs on offer rather than wait for universities...

Providing learning and development resources and opportunities to all employees lets them know that your company is committed to supporting their growth....

Seventy-one percent of millennials who are likely to leave an organization within two years are unhappy with the professional development opportunities (or lack thereof) from their employers. While this data...

This new model – we call it the Inside Gig strategy – optimizes the hidden talents within your organization. It actively encourages internal talent mobility, distributing skilled people more freely...

When creating a workshop for either face-to-face or online, it’s important to identify your purpose....

The digitization of learning and development (L&D) went into overdrive when the pandemic hit and 2020 has seen corporate L&D catapulted to the top of the business agenda. It's been...

If we have learned anything in the past seven months of living through a global pandemic, it is that change can be sudden, unexpected and completely out of our control....

The past six months have quite literally rocked the world. Like the clients and students we serve as career development practitioners (CDPs), our worlds have been rocked too. Through conversations...