Workplace Romance involves two members of the same organization who experience mutual attraction. As individuals spend increasing time in the workplace, they begin to build relationships with co-workers. According to a recent survey of 8,000 workers on office...

Part 2 – You only have 1 “complexity” in your business For the most, over 95% of the Alberta economy is made up of small businesses and yet 85% of these small businesses don’t see their 3rdor at most their 5th year anniversary! You may be asking yourself right...

Part 1 – Something to chew on. Whether we’re talking about the top-line, bottom-line, parts inventory, customer service, sales and marketing…we are definitely doing something wrong! So what are we “doing wrong”… our business’s human capital. Over the next series of...

For the last several years, we have all been obsessed – and rightfully so – with being able to find good people to work for our businesses or more specifically, unable to find good people period!  In fact, we’ve been so engrossed with “finding”/ “buying” talent...

For all the marketing that you engage in for your customers, have you ever thought of what your employees think of your brand? Many organizations get one thing right – they sell their brand internally so that their employees become some of their biggest marketing...

The Peter Principle is a clever observation of how people are hired or promoted within an organization. It states that people are promoted based on their performance in their current role rather than their ability to perform in their promoted role. Thus,...