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6 Ways to Manage During a Skilled Labor Shortage
Did you know Canadian businesses are facing the largest labor shortage in history and many of them are unaware of it, ill prepared for it, or are ignoring it all...
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Why We Have a Global Leadership Crisis, and What We Can Do About It
We need to look no further than our television showing the US presidential election process to see with the alarmingly different characters of leading candidates.
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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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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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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.
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Improve Employee Retention in the Workplace with these 4 Strategies
There are 8.1 million boomers in the Canadian workforce today. They started retiring about three years ago and are exiting the workforce in vast numbers.
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The Oil Industry's Inevitable Worker Shortage - and Six Steps to Prepare your Business
The Canadian energy sector is facing the largest talent shortage in history, yet many organizations are either unaware of it, ill prepared, unsure how to tackle it or are too...
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5 Ways to Keep your Best Employees from Leaving
What’s more important? Reducing your overall turnover, or minimizing the turnover of your best people? As competition for your best people increases due to the global (aka Local!) skilled labour...
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Feedback that Works - How to Approach that Difficult Feedback Conversation
We have all seen those tornado scenes in movies where amidst the debris a wide-eyed, bawling cow spins through the air.