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Earlier this month a small Nova Scotia town was devastated when a Canadian soldier presumably killed his wife, daughter and mother before turning a gun on himself. Unimaginable! How does a family recover from this? As a parent, I cannot [...]

As we enter the holiday season, I can’t help but reminisce about my previous holiday celebrations in the workplace. While I see my clients start to decorate their workspaces, the poinsettias arrive, the trees go up, employees seem both incredibly [...]

I attended a conference recently and ended up talking to the founder of a fairly successful tech start up company.  I say fairly successful,  because while the technology had experienced great success, the expected returns just weren’t where he thought [...]

I was 24 years old and working as a Human Resource Manager for a large call centre. I had only been in the role about a week when I had to perform my first employee termination. I had trained for [...]

Ugggh…performance review time again! I must admit, I have been that person that developed and launched that exhausting quarterly review process in your company. You know the one with the long form that you and your Manager complete in advanced [...]

Like many parents these days, I became a parent later in life (mid-30s). Most people wait because they want to establish a career or they just haven’t found the right partner yet. For me, I just wasn’t ready and I [...]