Human Resources

How To Handle Workplace Bullies

“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

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Liar, Liar: Do Not Hire

Here's why lying in the workplace can have serious consequences, and why honesty is always the best policy.

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Actioning Truth and Reconciliation in Your Business

Join facilitators Sheila North and Bill Medd for insights on adopting Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action in your organization, and the importance of doing so with cultural respect and understanding.

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The Ins and Outs of Hiring Foreign Workers

As a business owner, it's no secret that COVID-19 has drastically affected the way you run your business—especially if your workforce relies on newcomers to Canada. Join attorney and foreign legal consultant Jessica Jensen as she uncovers the ins and outs of hiring foreign workers during a pandemic.

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Business Etiquette Musts for Your Next Virtual Meeting

Before you hop on your next Zoom or Teams call, check out these tips for putting your best virtual foot forward in meetings.

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Keys to Becoming a Future-Ready Company

Even as the dust begins to settle from the COVID crisis, many small and medium sized business owners continue to absorb the aftershock. Business leaders around the globe are beating the “future-ready” drum, but what exactly does it take to become a future-ready company?

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Workplace Injuries & Your Responsibilities as an Employer

Ensuring the health and safety of the people you employ isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the law. Read what employers need to know to comply with established safety standards to maintain a healthy and safe workplace.

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10 Essential Tips To Help Your Team Transition From Remote Work Back To The Office

There is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to bringing employees back to work. However, there are certain things organizations can do to make the transition as smooth as possible. Discover 10 essential tips to help you and your employees embrace the transition with ease.

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It’s about more than optics. Here’s how diversity benefits your company on every level.

Diversity benefits go well beyond optics. It simply makes good business sense. However, building diversity and inclusiveness into team environments requires conscious effort. Discover a few best practice tips.

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Need to do some hiring? HR professionals weigh in on the best ways to find top talent

As a leader, hiring is a big job. Finding the right people critically impacts your team and your business. The good news? These recruiting trends are helping companies find better quality candidates, while decreasing the time to hire.

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How to Motivate an Unmotivated Team: Top 8 Engagement Strategies

Every business owner, company CEO and manager knows (or should know) motivated teams are crucial to a company’s growth strategy and success. Explore 8 engagement strategies that can improve motivation in teams and individual team members.

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Prominent HR Predictions and Trends for 2022

Wait, 2022? As a new year creeps up on us, take a peek at some of the prominent HR predictions and trends that we expect to continue and take centre stage in the coming year.

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How To Be Prepared For When Employees Leave

It is inevitable that some employees will leave your company, or need to be away from work for extended periods of time. Proper succession planning will help the transition go smoothly.

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Remote Teams and Accountability

How do you know your team is really working if they are all remote?

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The Risk of Doing Business: When WFH is Not Going Anywhere

How companies are adapting to a fully work-from-home workforce.

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Under Fire: How Managers and Business Owners Can Prevent Burnout During A Crisis

Management consultant and human resources specialist Barbara Bowes on how the current crisis can lead to burnout for managers and business owners, and what you can do to avoid it.

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Women in Business: Why Do We Still Have Such a Long Way to Go?

Despite major strides in the last 50 years, women still lag behind men at the highest levels of business and politics.

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Jump Off the Band Wagon

Groupthink squelches creativity, prevents healthy debate, could do more harm than good?

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Developing Employee Performance Goals & Metrics

Employee performance directly impacts the overall health of your business and is a critical component of business success. Employee performance measurement evaluates an individual employee’s work (productivity) against the business goals and objectives established for the company.

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6 Simple Tips to Overcome Biased Recruiting

Whether we admit it or not, we all are prone to unconscious biases. As humans, we are biologically hardwired to align with people we perceive to be similar to us.

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10 Unmistakable Signs of a Toxic Workplace

The signs you need to watch out for—and quickly correct.

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How To Prepare For a Potential Layoff During Trying Times

During challenging times, many companies face the harsh reality of laying off employees. If you're concerned about your job security, here's how to prepare for a potential layoff.

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Remote Control: How to Effectively Manage Remote Teams

Working from home requires new ways of communicating and new ways of supervising with an emphasis on collaborative teamwork.

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How To Hire A Millennial: The Care and Feeding of a Unique Generation

It would be a mistake to assume that millennial workers are inherently non-committal or flaky. And it would be an even bigger mistake to miss out on the contributions of this influential and best educated generation in history.

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How to Reduce Talent Loss

Amid the disruption and chaos created by the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses of all sizes are grappling with a multitude of new challenges including how to retain top performers.

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5 Simple Steps for Creating a Healthy Work Culture

Like anything worthwhile, you have to nurture and cultivate a positive, happy workplace culture. If you’ve never thought about your work culture or want to make yours better reflect your core values, then here are five simple steps to consider.

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How to Reward Employees When Budgets are Tight

There is a clear disconnect between Canadian employee and employer expectations when it comes to holiday rewards. How can you make your employees feel appreciated this year when budgets may be tighter than ever?

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Bringing Self-Care to the Office

Ways to maintain your health in the workplace—and why you should care.

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How to Better Support Parents in the Workplace

Companies that adapt their working model to support the needs of working parents in these difficult times will benefit from happier, focused and less-stressed employees. Learn how your company can better support working parent.

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The Impact of COVID on Female Entrepreneurs & Business Owners

With International Women’s Day (IWD) upon us, it’s a time to celebrate and recognize the social, economic, political and cultural achievements women have made. It’s also a time to advocate for further change, correct disparities and rally for women’s equality. This year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge”, which could not be more apropos. Read this article to learn how women have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and what resources are available to Canada’s female entrepreneurs and business owners in Canada.

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Workplace Trends in 2021

According to the latest reports from industry experts, 2021 will be another year of transition. Here are four of the more prominent trends reflecting the changing wants and needs of the working world.

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Managing Change in the Workplace

In these extraordinary times, managing workplace change is crucial. When done effectively, it can motivate and engage people, remove obstacles, improve performance and minimize negative outcomes. In this article, learn strategies for managing workplace changes and smooth employee transition in your business.

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Fairness is More Than Just an Eight Letter Word

An unfair investigation, is a flawed investigation. In fact, a flawed investigation may mean more time and money spent re-doing the investigation from square one. Learn What factor's make for a fair verus flawed investigation in the workplace.

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Bullying and Harassment Can Lead to Unforeseen Consequences

Situations of workplace bullying, harassment, and other dysfunctional conflicts between coworkers can be extremely detrimental. Learn more about the legal obligations regarding bullying and harassment in the workplace.

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Damages and the Importance of Conducting Proper Workplace Investigations

Issues surrounding employee misconduct and discipline are becoming increasingly complex and difficult to navigate. In a world of changing laws, learn the importance of properly conducted investigations in the workplace.

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Five Reasons to Retain External Legal Counsel to Conduct Workplace Investigations

The unfortunate reality is that inappropriate behaviours such as harassment and bullying do occur in the workplace, creating challenges for employers in even the most simple and straightforward cases. Learn five reasons why you should hire a a lawyer when conducting workplace investigations.

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How Contracts Help Avoid Costly Problems

Contracts help avoid costly problems by providing clarity and structure to the work and the business relationship, thereby removing any ambiguity, or misunderstandings that could lead to conflict down the road. Learn the key “must have” elements of a solid construction contract.

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Everything You Need to Successfully Onboard Remote Employees

Onboarding remote employees can be challenging because they are physically distant, but it’s not impossible to create a welcoming onboarding process that nurtures their success. Here is a checklist of activities to include in your onboarding process for newly hired remote employees.

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Virtual Team-Building Ideas

With millions of Canadians now working remotely, things like team-building activities are even more vital to support the health and well-being of employees who could otherwise feel isolated and disconnected. We polled HR gurus to come up with a list of virtual team-building activities that are fun and easy to initiate.

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Recipe for Outstanding Virtual Teamwork: Tips to Build Better Teams

Whether your remote team was cobbled together overnight to meet pandemic challenges, or you are building your team now, here are some of the core ingredients to nurture a high-performing virtual team.

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Webinar: A Guide to Vaccine Policies in the Workplace

As many industries plan for a return to in-person work, “vaccinations and the workplace” is a pressing topic facing leadership teams across the country. As leaders and business owners, there is a responsibility to keep your team safe and healthy in their work environment. An employee’s rights as an individual is also of the utmost priority. Is it a responsibility or a requirement for an organization to develop a vaccine policy? Is a workplace policy the best option? Are there exceptions to the rule? In this webinar, explore these questions and more with panelists including Labour and Employment Lawyer and Partner at TDS Law, Scott Hoeppner, Partner, Executive Search & Strategic Development at Legacy Bowes, Lisa Cefali and moderator Lauren McNabb, Host of CJOB 680 Morning Show, ‘The Start’.

Video: Vaccine Policies in the Workplace: Can employers ask an employee if they have been vaccinated?

This is a question at the top of every leader's mind right now. If you have been asking yourself this, get insights from Labour and Employment Lawyer and Partner at TDS Law, Scott Hoeppner and Partner, Executive Search & Strategic Development at Legacy Bowes, Lisa Cefali.

Video: Vaccine Policies in the Workplace: Can employers incentivize an employee to get vaccinated?

As vaccinations take place across Canada, employers are looking at different policy methods to ensure the health and safety of all employees. One of those methods includes incentive programs. Learn about the two approaches an employer can take and the legal consideration for encouraging vaccination and reducing barriers or hesitancy towards getting a vaccination.

Video: Vaccine Policies in the Workplace: Can employers host a vaccination clinic in the workplace?

With so many questions coming from business owners about vaccinations in the workplace, many are asking, “Can we host a vaccination clinic at our workplace?” Learn what experts Lisa Cefali of Legacy Bowes and Scott Hoeppner of TDS Law suggest as the best course of action.

Video: How Workplace Vaccine Policy Affects those Already Vaccinated

What will it look like once employees are vaccinated? Are they free to return to work? Are businesses considering how policies would impact those vaccinated individuals as well? Hear employment Lawyer and Partner at TDS Law, Scott Hoeppner’s perspective on these questions and more.

Video: Employer Rights: Vaccine Policies in the Workplace

Right now, there are a lot of uncertainties surrounding vaccines in the workplace as things continue to unfold. Learn more about what your rights are as an employer from Labour and Employment Lawyer and Partner at TDS Law, Scott Hoeppner and Partner, Executive Search & Strategic Development at Legacy Bowes, Lisa Cefali.

How to Deal with Difficult Employees: 10 Tips to Improve Workplace Performance

Although having difficult conversations with employees may be uncomfortable, they are an inevitable part of people management. Get a practical guide that you can use as a framework for having difficult conversations with an employee.

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How to Build a Positive and Supportive Remote Work Culture

Building culture in a 100% remote based work environment can be tough. Yet, it is possible to have a really positive, supportive, team-oriented company culture. Here are some strategies you can implement from the VP of Marketing at Vexxit.

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The Power of Teams: Strategies to Build High-Impact Teams & Deliver Business Results

People and their teams are the key drivers to organizational success. There are five critical areas that leaders need to pay attention to ensure that their organizations stay relevant and add value. In this webinar, we explore each of the five critical areas for organizations who are ready to increase their impact, retention and long-term sustainability.

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Webinar Highlight: What is the Result of Building High Value Teams?

Discover the results and outcomes that organizations can expect when they invest in building high-value teams. Highlight from The Power of Teams webinar with Canadian consultant, Judy Murphy, Owner & President of Murphy’s Executive Leadership.

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Webinar Highlight: Defining the Qualities of a High-Value Team

Discover the definition of a team and 5 qualities of a high-value team. Highlight from The Power of Teams webinar with Canadian consultant, Judy Murphy, Owner & President of Murphy's Executive Leadership.

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Webinar Highlight: Understanding Systemic Team Thinking

Understanding how the team works together to accomplish common goals is necessary for a healthy team. When one piece of the system fails, all systems fail. Highlight from The Power of Teams webinar with Canadian consultant, Judy Murphy, Murphy's Executive Leadership.

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Webinar Highlight: The Team Coaching Process

Explore 5 steps involved in the team coaching process. Highlight from The Power of Teams webinar with Canadian consultant, Judy Murphy, Murphy's Executive Leadership.

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Creating a Culture of Care: Employee Engagement for Everyone

Life happens whether we’re at work or it’s the weekend – so as an employer or manager, you can either choose to ignore it, or embrace it. Learn some tried and true ways from Vexxit's VP Marketing & Partnerships, Julie Rempel.

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How to Boost Morale in Ways Employees Actually Care

While you should certainly care about employee morale, you might want to reconsider that company-wide scavenger hunt in the name of team building. Here are five ways you can improve employee engagement for the long run, no cheesy games required.

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Building High-Value Teams Part I: Managing Stakeholder Expectations

People and their teams are the key drivers to organizational success. There are five critical areas that teams need to pay attention to ensure that their organizations stay relevant and add value. We’ll look at one of them in this article.

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Building High-Value Teams Part II: Team Tasks

People and their teams are the key drivers to organizational success. There are five critical areas that teams need to pay attention to ensure that their organizations stay relevant and add value. We’ll look at one of them in this article.

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Building High-Value Teams Part III: Team Relationships

People and their teams are the key drivers to organizational success. There are five critical areas that teams need to pay attention to ensure that their organizations stay relevant and add value. We’ll look at one of them in this article.

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Building High-Value Teams Part IV: Stakeholder Relationships

People and their teams are the key drivers to organizational success. There are five critical areas that teams need to pay attention to ensure that their organizations stay relevant and add value. We’ll look at one of them in this article.

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Building High-Value Teams Part V: Team Learning

People and their teams are the key drivers to organizational success. There are five critical areas that teams need to pay attention to ensure that their organizations stay relevant and add value. We’ll look at one of them in this article.

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The Power of Teams: Strategies to Build High-Impact Teams & Deliver Business Results

People and their teams are the key drivers to organizational success. There are five critical areas that leaders need to pay attention to ensure that their organizations stay relevant and add value. In this webinar, we explore each of the five critical areas for organizations who are ready to increase their impact, retention and long-term sustainability.

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