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Top 5 Resources for Supporting Work-Life Balance

Here’s my top 5 ideas for supporting your team with work-life balance: 1. Encourage socializing - Don’t look down on employees for having water cooler conversations or chatting in between assignments — better yet, join in when it makes sense to do so! Encouraging...

YourForest Podcast

Find out some of the challenges faced with implementing Free To Grow in Forestry. “I wouldn’t have expected someone from the LGBTQ+ community, and a woman, to be behind the undermining of Free to Grow. That’s when I knew this was about power and control, not the...

CIFAL Global Network – Sector Series Panel

Panel Discussion on Localizing the Canadian Supply Chain – Understanding Sector Specific Impacts on US Tariffs in the Forest sector.

Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) recognizes Free to Grow in Forestry

https://www.ccfm.org/canadians-and-communities/forests-an-integral-part-of-our-communities/

Top 5 Resources for Supporting Work-Life Balance

Here’s my top 5 ideas for supporting your team with work-life balance: 1. Encourage socializing - Don’t look down on employees for having water cooler conversations or chatting in between assignments — better yet, join in when it makes sense to do so! Encouraging...

Have We Gone Too Far with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?

As a business transformation expert who understands that organizations need to make changes over time on how they operate, and someone who has focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) over the last decade, I understand how there is a balance needed on...

Blog

Creating Opportunities for Women in Forestry

An article in the Spring 2019 edition of The Working Forest highlighted the work of the Gender Equity in Forestry National Action Plan. Many companies like Lim Geomatics, are recognizing the importance of technological advancements in the sector, but also social...

Assertiveness with Men and Boys is Key to Gender Equality

I recently attended and presented at the World Bank Conference on Oil, Gas, Mining and Gender in Washington, D.C. and was impressed with the gender practitioners’ best practices from around the world on how to create a sustained shift on gender equality.

CSI: Gender Agents for Change

Creating a Gender Transformation Movement for A Better Workplace Culture The Cost of Doing Nothing Photo: The Boss Magazine Gender Equality in the workplace Women represent only 17% or less in each of the natural resource sectors (mining, oil and gas, forestry) and...

Stress Tolerance: Managing Difficult Situations in the Workplace

With the fast pace of information hitting us from all angles all day long, it’s no surprise that people feel that multi-tasking has been taken to a new level. Be it the balance between personal and professional life, or just keeping up with the pressures at work, we are now operating at a pace that the generation before us did not do. With that constant stream of action and reaction each day brings a new layer of added stress.

Impulse control – Look Before You Leap

Despite the growing attention given to gender diversity these days, you can still find people who will quietly admit that they don’t see this issue as an issue at all. They are the folks who look around them and see women employed and wonder what all the fuss is...

How Do EQ Skills Improve My Business? The Necessity of Self-Awareness

“Can’t you see why you’re wrong?!”. We have all heard this, or some variation of it, in our arguments with those closest to us. Typically, the recipient of this phrase is unable or unwilling to change their viewpoint, leading to a further breakdown in communication....