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How to Ask for Professional Development Funding During a Downturn
Professional development, that supports your growth as a leader, should not be a side gig paid out of pocket. Not even now during a downturn.
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Phases of Transition and How to Ground Yourself in This Moment
Change can be disorienting.
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Why Networking is Critical in the Latest Oil and Gas Downturn
The Calgary Stampede two-stepped into town again to try to whoop up an oil industry city that is crying into its beer.
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10 Ways to Develop a Positive Mindset After Surviving a Layoff
It’s all too familiar these days: the heartbreaking images of empty cubicles, vacant offices, deserted downtown parades, and recurring headlines spewing news of cost reduction and more layoffs.
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Build a Strong Succession Planning Strategy with these 5 No-Cost Solutions
A 19th century anecdotal experiment has it that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out.
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How to Lead After Layoffs - 13 No-Cost Leadership Strategies
In a Financial Post article from just before the holidays, Tim McMillan, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, says Canada’s oil and gas sector...
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The Real Cost of Layoffs in the Latest Oil Downturn
Will you be Reeling or Roaring out the Other Side? Are layoffs really the answer to this downturn.
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Frantically Busy but Unproductive? 8 Tips to Manage Yourself, Not your Time
In a recent survey of 350,000 people worldwide by Franklin Covey, people admitted to spending up to 40 per cent of their time on unimportant or irrelevant tasks.
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Avoiding Job Burnout - Where are You on the Stress Curve?
With shocking speed last year we fell into this major downturn in the oil patch in western Canada and economically worldwide.
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Coping with Job Loss? 5 Ways You may be Sabotaging your Career Comeback—and How to Avoid Them
If you’re one of the many people who have been laid off recently, this is for you. Recovering from the varied and complex ramifications of a job loss can be overwhelming.
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The Escalating Loss of Knowledge in the Oil Industry, and 4 Steps to Prevent It
In the early 2000s, Boeing, faced with a slump in business, offered early retirement to 9,000 senior employees.
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Boost Employee Engagement and Employee Productivity with these 3 Key Steps (Part 2)
While the dramatic drop in oil prices has rocked the oil and gas industry, the ripples are being felt far beyond Calgary’s office towers.
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Boost Employee Engagement and Employee Productivity with these 2 Key Steps (Part 1)
With shocking speed, we’ve fallen into a major downturn in the oil patch. Capital projects have been cancelled and jobs and budgets have been drastically cut.
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Leading through the Recession - 5 Strategies for Success
If the skilled labour shortage in the oil patch isn’t enough of a leadership challenge, we’ve now been blindsided by $40 oil that no one seemed to predict.