Right of Access
Take advantage of tools designed to help plan and execute compliance with Ontario’s accessibility laws
By Melissa Campeau
If you remove the accessibility roadblocks to your business, you clear the path for the one in seven Ontarians with disabilities to find their way to you. They might be clients, partners or[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

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[...]

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The late Michael Hammer wrote following in an unpublished manuscript: “Processcentered work can help satisfy everyone’s[...]

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[...]

Light the spark
Creating and shaping more innovative HR services
By Ed Bernacki
While everyone likes to think of themselves as being innovative, what are you doing to make your work innovative? In interviews with HR managers, I ask what makes their work innovative. I am told of mission statements or company values that talk about[...]

Canadian Department of Defence’s Luc Maillet
HR challenges in a war zone
By Duff McCutcheon
Amid all the warplanes, guns and Canadian soldiers battling the Taliban in Afghanistan, there’s an important HR component that’s just as crucial to winning the war. While not HR professionals per se, Canadian civilian contractors are[...]

Embedding CSR Values into Corporate Culture
By Melissa Campeau
There is little question that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives can be good for a company’s culture. But the benefits of sustainability initiatives don’t have to end there. A growing number of companies are recognizing that collaborative, grassroots-based[...]

What’s Worth Reading
By Alyson Nyiri
Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in) Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results Jossey-Bass, 2010 – By Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan
Katzenbach and Khan know a thing or two about management consulting. Katzenbach is senior vice president of Booz &[...]