Workforce plagues: Understanding and dealing with social dominance and narcissistic personalities at work
by Shift | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog, Employer Best Practices, Hot Off The Press, Leadership and Management, Supervisory Smarts
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 Shift | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog, Build your career, Canadian Workplace Culture, Hot Off The Press, 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...
Present yourself with confidence
by Shift | Nov 18, 2016 | Past Webinar Recording
You ABSOLUTELY need to present yourself with confidence 100% of the time (or at least 98%)…Learn how to “up” your confidence factor in this webinar.
5 Disastrously common meeting presentation mistakes & what you can learn from them
by Shift | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Build your career, Employer Best Practices, Hot Off The Press, Intercultural Communication, Reaching Your Career Goals, Supervisory Smarts
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....Search
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- Supervisory survival basics: Giving direction
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- Changing your own behaviour with "If_when...then"
- Finding a job in Canada: Using online searches
- Documents you need to immigrate to Canada
- Getting a job with your degree
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- Bringing out the talents of your team: Survey and you shall receive
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- Cross cultural negotiation - part three: Personality traits that lead to cultural behaviour change
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- Cultural differences: The key to creativity and innovation
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- Turning Twitter into a giant job board
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- Integrating international employees to your workplace
- How did I lose myself? Finding your confidence in a new country
- Gerard Keledjian: An immigrant success story
- Perfect your entry level resume: Tips and Tricks
- Stop pissing off recruiters
- Courageous conversations you wish you’d had
- Understand and showcase your "soft skills"
- [+]March
- To stop the talent drain, develop your own leadership
- Quit spending 80% of your time on one bad egg
- Craft an entry level resume
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- Organize your team for performance
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- Is it true that some people can’t be motivated?
- Building your career in Canada: Chinese and Canadian perspectives
- [+]February
- Foreign credential recognition in Alberta: A few explanations and resources
- Stop drowning in paperwork
- Manage for this century and the next
- Stay current and employable in your field: 4 Ideas you may have missed
- 3 critical supervisory leadership tools for this century and the next!
- How to manage annoying people
- Build Powerful Engaged Teams
- Fix company communication that SUCKS
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- Get results when talking to your boss
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- Is online learning for you? Let’s find out
- Accent reduction without losing your identity or voice
- Getting through to your boss
- How to use your voice more effectively: 4 Critical strategies
- The need to be right versus the need to know
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- Building and recovering team trust: A basic framework for managers
- Workforce plagues: Understanding and dealing with social dominance and narcissistic personalities at work
- "We're going to have to let you go" - Words the indispensable NEVER have to hear
- Present yourself with confidence
- 5 Disastrously common meeting presentation mistakes & what you can learn from them
- Want more confidence? Try these steps!
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- 7 Barriers to communication and a lesson from YouTube
- Communicating with clarity
- Why you can't afford to have poor communication in your business or organization
- Reflections on high school reunions and cultural awareness
- "What? Are you trying to teach me something?" The link between organizational learning and polar bears
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- Virtual introductions: The "why" and "how"
- The power of a true vacation, and why you should harness it
- Virtual Networking: Using LinkedIn to find work
- Networking for people who are shy, socially uncomfortable or new to the country
- Virtual networking part three: Using Twitter to network your way into a job
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- “Three cups of tea”: The principle behind building your network and getting results
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