3 Employee Onboarding Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
The key to retaining talent and reducing turnover is developing an effective employee onboarding program. Avoid these three onboarding mistakes at all costs!
Company Culture
The Right to Disconnect: What it Means for Ontario Employers
Are you an Ontario-based employer who’s reaching out to your employees after work hours with a last-minute, time-sensitive request? Are you giving your employees a quick call to update them on the status of an important project after their workday ends?
In this blog post, we will discuss Ontario’s right to disconnect legislation, why it matters, and what you need to know as an employer.
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Self-Awareness, Reflection, and Learning
For many of us, learning something new can feel scary.
We engage in subconscious learning and problem-solving daily, yet it can feel intimidating to consciously broach a new learning opportunity.
In this blog post, we will highlight the power that comes from leaning on gratitude and self-reflection to guide our learning journeys compassionately. Ultimately, this approach helps us to foster a growth mindset that empowers learning from within.
Before we explore solutions, let’s take a moment to appreciate some common challenges associated with learning.
5 Ways to Support Your Team’s Mental Health
Mental health is relevant to everyone. It is reflective of one’s emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. It affects how we think, feel, and act.
We spend most of the hours in our day working. It’s crucial that the space where we spend this time is safe, supportive, and does not have a negative impact on our mental health. Read More »5 Ways to Support Your Team’s Mental Health
Combatting and Recovering from Burnout
For many, burnout has been stigmatized. This has left more than half of Canada’s workforce battling burnout and its adverse effects silently and alone. Today, we will discuss tools you can mobilize to combat burnout and promote recovery!
How to Improve Your Candidate Experience in a Competitive Talent Market
There is no doubt that the job market landscape has become increasingly competitive for employers. Companies need to get creative and offer enticing compensation and benefits to be considered as an employer of choice. But it shouldn’t stop there!
The cornerstone of competition within today’s tight recruitment market is the candidate experience. Now more than ever, those looking for jobs have the power to choose what kind of company they want to work for. This even includes how they want to feel coming into work every day and the environment and people they surround themselves with! Providing this stellar candidate experience is key to ensuring your organization not only attracts the right people but retains them when it matters!
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Leveraging Social Media Recruiting to Attract Top Talent
Are you harnessing the power of social media to attract top talent to your team? If you aren’t yet, there are some good reasons as… Read More »Leveraging Social Media Recruiting to Attract Top Talent
Facilitating Workplace Boundaries
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become more difficult to set boundaries at work. What used to be a clear line between work and personal life has now been blurred by the work-from-home environment that many people find themselves in. Now, as remote workers, the morning commute to the office becomes a shuffle to your desk in the next room, and one more email at the end of the day ends up delaying dinner time.
Though remote work allows for greater flexibility in your schedule, and saves you commuting time, many workers struggle to disconnect after work hours.
In this post, we’ll discuss some ways to help create clear boundaries for work versus home life and provide several tips to stay productive and navigate your workplace… minus the burn-out!
Active Listening in the Workplace
We’re sure you’ve heard of the term “active listening”, but do you know how to effectively use it in conversations? It’s actually really easy! Today, we’re here to share some helpful tips for active listening as well as how active listening is beneficial in the workplace.
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Performative Action: How to Take Real Action on Social Issues
Over recent years, social activism appears to be increasingly normalized. However, 2020 was a historic year for social activism. Millions across the world joined together to fight for equality, justice, and reparations. Those included in the millions of people were many companies and organizations who expressed their solidarity on social media platforms and their websites. As companies announced where they stand on particular issues, they either took action, lacked the resources to implement action, or simply advertised their involvement to increase their social capital. The latter is defined as performative activism.
Countless employers may pledge to take a more active stance on inclusion efforts in recent years, however, it is more than likely for those promises to fizzle out. This blog addresses the meaning of performative activism as well as the why’s and how to take real action to contribute to real change.
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