How Do You Engage?

By Nilesh Bhagat, CHRP In a recent article, Ian Cook, BC HRMA’s director of research and learning, cautioned against the popularized concept of engagement, as...

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Aligning HR Practices to Business Culture

By Cori Maedel Companies grow, cultures change and sometimes we become so entangled in day-to-day complexity that we lose clarity with what we're trying to...

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Ledcor Walks the Talk: Steel-Toe Insights On Valuing Diversity

What happens when steel-toe boots meet Jimmy Choos? The cliche “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes” could epitomize Ledcor’s approach to diversity. At...

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Smoothing Transitions: Factoring Diversity

Aman* was recruited to senior management in the head office of a pharmaceutical company just six months after arriving in Canada. He came highly...

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Simplifying Social Media (and Putting It to Work)

By Peter Caulfield How to get the most out of LinkedIn, Facebook and other electronic dialogue technologies? In what seems like the blink of an eye,...

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What Makes a Good Workplace?

By David Creelman   It is ironic that some of the workplaces you expect to be the nicest are the most dysfunctional. I’ve come across bitter...

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Positive Workplace Politics with Co-workers

By Margaret Morford It’s sad but true: Most of us spend more time with co-workers than with family members. But are we fully developing these...

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A Coaching Culture Transformation: Coastal Community’s Story

By Deborah Lang, CHRP and Paul Gossen The business world tells us that the recipe for building a high performance learning culture is to develop...

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