Millennials: You either love them or hate them, and chances are, you don’t really understand them. Look, it’s not you, it’s… well, it’s not me either; it isn’t either of us really. And I can’t say I blame us. I’m a Millennial (I think), but… Read More »Why We Can’t Generalize Millennials
Ilona Dougherty, founder of Apathy is Boring and recent recipient of Canada’s Top 100 Women in 2015 has done some very interesting research around the shift in the number of students attending university. In her recent article, she found that ‘the number of students enrolled full-time in university… Read More »Five Questions Students Should Be (But Aren’t) Asked
Here we are, the latter half of 2016. Cars are starting to drive themselves, devices are connecting and communicating with each other, and work…well work is bigger than it has ever been before. Why? Because we can work in more places than we could 10… Read More »How Work-Life Integration Proves That We Have To Love Our Jobs
Co-authored with Connor Beaton and originally posted in Influenvice.com This week, 11,414 athletes step into the global spotlight. Win or lose, for many the dream was to make it to the most prestigious athletic event in the world. They did it. These Olympians have trained countless hours, sweat endless beads,… Read More »Priorities Have To Be Established, And Other Business Lessons I Learned From Olympians
‘The Top 100 Places To Work’, ‘Best Cultures in America’, ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’, and all of the other ‘Top X’ lists are accolades many companies strive to be awarded. We all want to create a great place to work, no doubt, but what… Read More »A Universal ‘Best Culture’ Doesn’t Exist
The way we work and talk about work is changing. No longer is work just something we punch in to and out of, it is an identifier of who we are what we like to do. More so now than ever though, volunteering is become… Read More »Volunteering and the Future of Talent Attraction
I first wrote this short piece as a joke, but then realized that I was so guilty of overusing powerful words that it wasn’t a joke at all. Yesterday when I went to my favorite restaurant, I ordered my favorite meal, and had the highest… Read More »Why My Lunch Will Never Be Better Than Great
Co-written with Sam Sawchuk In order to start recruiting the best talent for your company, you need to flip the model on its head. The job ‘description’. That document we’ve all seen when applying for a job (often while applying for tens of others at… Read More »Why Your Company Needs To Flip Your Recruiting Process On Its Head
Well, it has to be. We’re living in a world where we have to state that something is true before we say it. Why does it have to be that way? At risk of offending other people, and in the interest of being transparent (the… Read More »Why ‘Authentic’ is the Word of 2016
Co-written with John Kennedy at True Calling Canada. In a recent CBS News piece, President of the Marketing Firm Yankelovich, Jay Walker-Smith stated that the number of advertisements we see in day has gone from roughly 500 in the 1970’s to as many as 5000 a day today. What this… Read More »Why Storytelling Will Land Your Best Hire Yet