It’s a challenging time for many businesses and it’s particularly problematic for those who are hiring because applicants can now afford to be pickier about which offers they accept.
North American businesses lose millions of dollars a year due to various kinds of theft. Unfortunately, it’s often their own employees who are doing most of the stealing, and most employers don’t even know it.
Holiday Hours - Christmas 2021 Creative Organizational Design will be closed for the Holiday beginning on December 20th 2021 and reopening on January 3rd 2022 @ 9 AM Eastern. Please be advised that between Dec 20th and Dec 24th emails and phone calls WILL BE...
Soft skills used to be considered nice-to-haves but now, they’re critical must-haves. They’re the ‘grease’ that facilitates interpersonal interactions and are what people with hard skills use to succeed. Soft skills are things like critical thinking, flexibility, adaptability, team working, problem solving, time management, communication, attention to detail, dependability, emotional intelligence and etc. They are equally as, if not more important than, hard skills.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT – DISCONTINUED TESTS – Things are always changing in the testing industry and products come, go and get updated; sometimes without warning.
If ever there was a time to be talking about character and ethics then it’s now in the wake of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. That event, and the entirety of Trump’s presidency, have illustrated why integrity and character are more than just nice-to-have’s. Trustworthiness is critical to every level of human interaction whether be it in marriage, in business dealings or when you loan the family car to your teenager.
Ten thousand Baby Boomers turn 65 every day—a trend that began in 2011 and will continue until 2030. [i] This year almost 25% of workers in Canada will be 55 years or older and the same statistic will hold true for the USA by 2024. [ii] In 2030 – only 11 years from...
80% of workers feel stress on the job and nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress. The other 20% is lucky because apparently everyone else is suffering; both at the individual and the corporate level.
Personality does change over time (a long time) and it’s a significant although small change over one’s lifetime. What the researchers found was that as we mature, so do our personalities. Specifically, people tend to ‘peak’ in middle age but at a level not high enough to infer a complete lack of change in personality traits. This means that personality has a stable component across the life span, both at the trait level and at the profile level, and that personality is also malleable, and people mature as they age.
There are over 1 million Canadians out of work due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It's an unsettling time and no one knows what's coming next or when things will return to normal. "Normal" may be a long time coming for some of us and unfortunately, for some people, they...