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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...

Identifying Hidden Cultural Resistance

In every organization striving to evolve — whether toward inclusion, innovation, or agility — there lies an often-overlooked obstacle:hidden cultural resistance. Download the Report Enter your information for an instant download:

Using Social Intelligence to Address Workplace Culture and Root Out Toxic Leadership

Workplace culture issues and toxic leadership often arise from a lack of awareness, unchecked power dynamics, and poor communication. Social intelligence (SI) provides leaders with the skills to observe, understand, and influence behavior in ways that improve culture,...

Understanding Social Intelligence and Its Role in Leadership

Social intelligence (SI) is the ability to effectively navigate and manage social interactions by understanding and responding to the emotions, intentions, and behaviors of others. It combines awareness of one’s own social presence with the capacity to read,...

Top 10 things leaders can do to create gender equality in the workplace

Like all great leaders, and as further explained in my book Lead the Change – The Competitive Advantage of Gender Diversity and Inclusion, there are key actions that can be taken now to help improve gender equality in the workplace. Here are a few thoughts to get your...

The Path of Least Resistance

As pointed out in my book Lead the Change – The Competitive Advantage of Gender Diversity and Inclusion - we live in an increasingly culturally diverse country and Canadian businesses must engage all facets of the current workforce that are available to them to...

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Government Should Be Leading the Way on Social Intelligence

Governments have a moral obligation to lead Canadians toward a better way of living and often do so through the development and implementation of policies. Social intelligence should be no different. I’ve mentioned previously how corporations should increase their...

Social Intelligence Can Optimize A Corporations Effectiveness

Leading companies are focusing on advancing environmental and social aspects of their company and tracking it through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. Much of the conversation to date has focused on environmental issues and concerns with only...

New Year Reflections

January is the month for reflection – of the year gone by and the year ahead. I often find myself drawing down the lessons from the year with the hope that I will integrate those nuggets of knowledge into my being such that it no longer seems to be a lesson, just an...

Gender Diversity in the Mining Sector

My daughter will be heading into high school this fall and is beginning to think about possible career options. Her future will be quite different than mine was when I entered the workforce. My parents raised me to think I could do anything I put my mind to and it...

New Year Reflections

January is the month for reflection – of the year gone by and the year ahead. I often find myself drawing down the lessons from the year with the hope that I will integrate those nuggets of knowledge into my being such that it no longer seems to be a lesson, just an...

Climate change and Nunavut: building a future

As climate change continues to impact the globe, and most Canadians cheer for warmer winters, the citizens of Canada’s northern regions are cheering for a different reason. Faced with unprecedented new economic opportunities, Canada’s northern territories are well...