Building and recovering team trust: A basic framework for managers

by marie | Nov 29, 2016 | Blog, Employer Best Practices, Hot Off The Press, Leadership and Management, Supervisory Smarts

Trust: difficult to build, easily broken, requires maintenance! Trust between people comes from three different dimensions: Ability – Both people need to believe that the other person can do the job or task Integrity – This is built from a history of past actions,...

Workforce plagues: Understanding and dealing with social dominance and narcissistic personalities at work

by marie | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog, Hot Off The Press, Leadership and Management, Supervisory Smarts, Employer Best Practices

Around the world we are seeing rises in two diametrically opposed attitudes: on the one hand collaboration and integration across difference, and on the other, entitlement, social dominance and narcissism. If your workplace has individuals exhibiting social dominance...

“We’re going to have to let you go” – Words the indispensable NEVER have to hear

by marie | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog, Build your career, Hot Off The Press, Canadian Workplace Culture, Reaching Your Career Goals

In 2015, Gartner, an IT research and consulting firm, estimated that one third of all jobs will be replaced by software, robots, and smart machines by 2025 [1]. The World Economic Forum is predicting a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” to take place between 2015 and...

5 Disastrously common meeting presentation mistakes & what you can learn from them

by marie | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Hot Off The Press, Supervisory Smarts, Intercultural Communication, Employer Best Practices, Reaching Your Career Goals, Build your career

For many of us, just the mention of the word “meeting” makes us roll our eyes and groan. We’ve all had the misfortune of sitting through yet another bad presentation and have cursed the heavens for losing an hour (or longer) of our lives to boredom and frustration....

Want more confidence? Try these steps!

by marie | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog, Canadian Workplace Culture, Reaching Your Career Goals, Build your career, Hot Off The Press, Leadership and Management

Have you ever found yourself watching someone else participate easily in a conversation with a stranger and wondered, “How did he/she do that?” Or perhaps you watched a presenter put forth a series of ideas with brilliant logic, a great sense of humour, or...