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- Accessibility Progress Reports: Your 2025 Obligations as a Federally Regulated EmployerIf you’re a federally regulated employer in Canada, your accessibility progress report is due June 1st 2025. Learn about your obligations here!
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- Accessibility Progress Reports: Your 2025 Obligations as a Federally Regulated EmployerIf you’re a federally regulated employer in Canada, your accessibility progress report is due June 1st 2025. Learn about your obligations here!
- Breaking Barriers in the Trades: The Lady Plumber Leading ChangeWomen make up less than 5% of tradespeople in Canada — but that number is slowly rising thanks to industry leaders like Mary-Anne.
- Neurodiversity in the Workplace: An Employer’s Guide to Supporting EmployeesListen to this Blog Duration: 0:00 Neurodiversity is a simple but powerful idea: our brains work in different ways. And that’s a good thing! There are an estimated 600,000 neurodiverse adults in Canada. That’s a whole lot of brainpower showing up differently (and brilliantly) across our teams. In the workplace, this includes both neurotypical and… Read More »Neurodiversity in the Workplace: An Employer’s Guide to Supporting Employees
- How to Protect Your Business Without Downsizing Your WorkforceIn today’s unpredictable economy, the instinct to downsize your team may seem like the quickest & easiest way to cut costs. But is downsizing the right answer?
- How to Prepare for BC Pay Transparency in 2025Pay transparency helps foster a workplace rooted in trust and fairness. Learn about your key obligations for 2025 as it relates to BC’s Pay Transparency Act.
- Creating Equal Opportunities for Women in the WorkplaceAs we celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we reflect on the work that still needs to be done to empower women in the workplace.
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How to Engage Stakeholders for Change Management: Q&A with Ashley Hoytema of AdvanTec Manufacturing Canada
Have you ever struggled to get stakeholders bought in to a new initiative? You’re not alone. Successful change management is hard! We are thrilled to kick off our Future Perfect Expert Series with Ashley Hoytema, HR Generalist at AdvanTec Manufacturing Canada and former panelist at our event, Future Perfect: Humanizing the Candidate Experience.
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2017 Reflections & Looking Ahead to 2018
Year end is often a time to reflect on what has been accomplished, and what is still left to be done upon entering the New Year. As we close out 2017, our team looks back with pride and excitement! Our Future Perfect events brought together over 200 People and Culture Leaders to discuss people challenges and…
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5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Candidate Experience
On November 22, 2017, we hosted our second Future Perfect event, Humanizing the Candidate Experience. We created the Future Perfect event series with the goal of gathering People and Culture Leaders from a cross-section of industries to collaborate and share insight on issues that impact organizations.
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Golden Unicorn: 6 Steps to Building an Effective Employee Recognition Program
Catch people doing things right more often than you catch people doing things wrong. – Elena Romero Early in my career I had the pleasure of working closely with Elena Romero, a fantastic people leader who is one of my key mentors. Elena’s advice has stuck with me, and is the foundation of my philosophy around employee recognition:…
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Meet the Envol Team: Rikka Bouseh
Envol is all about its people. Obviously. So naturally we love sharing our incredible team with you – they’re just too great to keep to ourselves! Read on to meet Rikka, our Senior People Strategist. She’s an HR queen and quality human being.
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Happy Birthday Envol! Reflections from our First Year
Envol Strategies was launched on September 12, 2016. I started Envol because I believe that businesses can be more human, better places to work. After years working in the recruiting agency world, I knew that companies deserved more than expensive bandaid solutions to their people challenges. I saw first-hand the profound disconnect between great employers…