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The Value of an Employee Handbook – 5 Reasons Why You Should Have One
An Employee Handbook creates clear expectations, a communication and training tool, reduces legal risks and promotes trust among employees.
How to Develop Your Managers into Leaders
As businesses grow and evolve, there is often a shift from traditional management structures to more inclusive and collaborative leaders.
4 Ways to Break Bias in the Workplace
How to help break bias: Understand the concept and impact, Practice perspective-taking, Identify ways to break bias, Increase conversations
Top 5 Workplace Wellness Tips
Employee Retention is one of the most important pieces of retaining top talent, but with branded terms like quiet quitting circulating the internet, employers need to step up their game to ensure the term does not turn into real quitting.
6 Tips to Increase Employee Retention and Satisfaction
Employee Retention is one of the most important pieces of retaining top talent, but with branded terms like quiet quitting circulating the internet, employers need to step up their game to ensure the term does not turn into real quitting.
Will the BC Government declare National Truth and Reconciliation Day as a legal statutory holiday?
The survey clearly signals the B.C. government’s intent to add an 11th legal stat holiday for NTRD. There is broad support for this but many employers while supporting recognition of NTRD will be concerned about adding another statutory holiday with no compensating adjustment to the existing schedule of stats.
The Best Time of Year to Hire Employees
We continue to hear about the shortage of available workers, and the difficulty companies are having finding quality people. You may be wondering why this is, and as an employer when is the best time (and worst time) of the year to be hiring?
Are Cost of Living Increases Mandatory?
B.C.’s inflation rate is the highest it’s been since 1983 at 8.1% making it increasingly difficult for people to meet their monthly expenses. As an employer you may be asking yourself how does this impact my employees and should I be giving them a Cost of Living increase?
Leading with Empathy – 4 Ways to Begin Today
We are living in a world where labour is in short supply, we are becoming more divided than united, our mental health is taking a toll, and we are wondering what normal even means. As a leader, looking to the future, you may be wondering how best to respond to these challenges. What leadership skills do you need to focus on?