HR 101
FOUR ESSENTIAL ACTS FORM BASIS FOR LEADERSHIP
By Dr. Chris Bart, F.C.A.
Imagine you just earned your first leadership assignment. You get to know your employees but after a while you realize those reporting to you aren’t doing what the company’s new mission statement wants them to do: “Amaze and delight each and every[...]

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Immigration: The New Normal
Lawyer Evelyn Ackah discusses Canada’s aging population , and why we must aggressively recruit foreign workers
By Laurie J. Blake
It’s hard to focus on much else lately, when all the news is on the doom and gloom of the global economic scene. But, one thing’s for sure: whether market fluctuations,[...]

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Are You Executive Level Material?
Can you play the executive game … and win?
By Jean Kelley
Any successful executive admits there’s a game in business. If you’re not willing to play, you can’t win. So while many aspire to reach the executive level, they won’t.
     In fact, most don’t make it past the $80,000[...]

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Off the Shelf
What’s Worth Reading
By Alyson Nyiri
Faster, Cheaper, Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming how Work Gets Done (Crown Business, Random House, 2011; By Michael Hammer & Lisa Hershaman)

The late Michael Hammer wrote following in an unpublished manuscript: “Processcentered work can help satisfy everyone’s[...]

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Re-evaluating Reasonable Notice for the Older Employee
How redefining “senior” is redefining reasonable notice in the workplace
By Melissa Campeau
NOT TOO LONG ago many of us had a particular–and unflattering–impression of what it meant to be a senior: increasingly diminished, physically frail and thankfully retiring[...]

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