Recently, I was on a plane heading back to Vancouver after being in Northern B.C. – the land of Oil & Gas and Site C – and it was hard not to overhear the conversation of the young man...
Anchored by the belief that YWCA Metro Vancouver's employees are everything to them, Michelle Sing, CPHR has spent the past 26 years elevating and executing the profession of HR.
The past 22 of those years have been committed to YWCA...
Courage is commonly thought of in the context of an incredible act of bravery, or overcoming extreme adversity or risk. In everyday life, we might think of courage as getting up in the night to see if the noise...
“Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.” ~ Gina Greenlee
Every three months, PeopleTalk asks CPHR BC & Yukon's members to share their thoughts, opinions and experiences relating to a trending topic.
In the Winter issue, we asked five...
HR professionals have a complicated relationship with data.
In an earlier article, I referenced my own experiences with HR data dating back 15 years. At that time, data was the 'it' topic in HR. The thought leaders of the day...
When you're named one of Canada's most creative people, you find different, more innovative ways to do things.
So when we asked Ron Tite, keynote speaker at the upcoming HR Conference + Tradeshow in Vancouver, B.C., to answer a few questions via...
The longer we stay in a role, the higher the chances of our interests and values drifting away from the values of an organization.
Things evolve within our lives and ourselves and, as we mature, the connection to our work...
There was a time when people were so happy to have a job that they put up with just about anything to take home that precious pay cheque. The idea of management caring about employee experience seemed laughable.
And while...