Me? Yes You! Feel like you are held hostage by an employee? Feel like they should be fired but struggle with making 'the' decision? You are not alone, I have heard this from many business...
Read the full post.
It is a tight labor market that is getting tighter. The Entrepreneurial Mind in an article titled, Time to Update Your Staffing Plans. He has seven suggestions to prepare for a tightening hiring...
Read the full post.
Immigrants will make up 100 per cent of Ottawa's population growth in four year's time. I was reading a StatsCan report that as of 2001, 5.4 million people, or 18.4% of the total population,...
Read the full post.
Growing businesses tend to hire and add employees to cope with growth. This report doesn't specifically state the reason behind the growth in the number of businesses with employees in Alberta is...
Read the full post.
Are you having a challenge finding employees to fill vacant positions in your company? According to a press release by the CFIB, there are 251,000 vacant positions in Canada, an all time high. Get...
Read the full post.
Tired of the 'Them vs. Us' mentality? Does your corporate culture breed fear and is constantly reacting to problems? Do you feel more like a fireman than a business person? The adversarial...
Read the full post.
How are you coping with recruiting, hiring, and retaining your employees? Demographic trends show that there will be substantial human resource challenges ahead. ... the number one issue that will be...
Read the full post.
This is an interesting distinction on the 2006 study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). A 2006 study conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business revealed that...
Read the full post.
Making your business a great place to work requires more than buying a box of donuts once in awhile - you need to build trust. This great article from The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, NS explains the...
Read the full post.
Hiring the right people for the right job, for the right reasons is always a challenge because our own beliefs, behaviors, and actions can get in the way. The key is to be prepared... "The art...
Read the full post.
This news is something I have been talking about for two years. 62 per cent of Canadian private company CEOs polled told a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey that the [worker] shortage is...
Read the full post.
Sometimes the way entrepreneurs and business owners treat their employees you would think they are running a kennel rather than a business. At "Knocking the exuberance out of employees" is...
Read the full post.
With 928 work related deaths from injuries and work-related diseases, safety is a serious health, safety, and management issue. On September 6, 2006 the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) announced...
Read the full post.
I will never forget the first time I was asked the question that every entrepreneur and business owner eventually asks themselves, "How do you motivate employees?" I would say, "Well,...
Read the full post.
I live in Edmonton, Alberta and my Uncle (Paul Guthrie) drilled the first independent well in the Leduc Oil field in the 1950's. Our province has been blessed with an abundance of oil not just in...
Read the full post.
Canada's close proximity to the US positions Canadian companies to be viewed as a 'near shore' alternative according to Outsourcing News. "Our overall labor costs put Canada midway...
Read the full post.
Did you know that D&B offers a number of Leadership and Business Skills Self-Study programs? I knew D&B for their business credit services but I wasn't aware of their small business...
Read the full post.
The number of self-employed persons in Canada has doubled since 1976 to 2,412,700 (Statistics Canada, January 2004.) The same thing is happening with our neighbor to the south. In the last eight...
Read the full post.
