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Five Tips for Mental Health Wellness at Work

Deri Latimer | Posted 05.03.2013 | Canada Business
Deri Latimer

Next week is Mental Health Week. So, take some time this month and look around your workplace. Ask yourself how you are doing. Ask your staff, co-workers, leaders, clients and suppliers how you are doing. Then, decide which of these 10 tips you might be able to begin implementing right away.

How To Be Happy At Work

Deri Latimer | Posted 04.26.2013 | Canada Impact
Deri Latimer

A month ago, I started really focusing on people who are happy at work. Everywhere I go, I pay attention to who is around me. Interested in creating more happiness at work? It starts by changing your thoughts. It starts by moving out of your thinking ruts, and into a new thinking groove. Here are some examples:

No More Horrible Bosses - Reinventing the Office Environment

Sheldon Dyck | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Alberta
Sheldon Dyck

Thankfully most of us will never experience being threatened with death or blackmailed by our bosses. However, many of us could relate to Kevin Spacey's one beady eye on the clock and another on a closed-circuit video revealing precisely when his employees arrived at work through the company parking garage. Spacey's David Harken was driven not only by his addictions -- to power, humiliation, $1,400 suits and early-morning highballs -- but also by a century-old workplace myth: you have to physically watch the people you lead to determine whether they're being productive.

How to Get Millennials Excited About Coming to Work

Mary Donohue | Posted 05.05.2013 | Canada Business
Mary Donohue

The recent dust-up over working from home or working at work has brought a few issues to the forefront. Primarily, that dealing with a young, mobile and educated workforce is hard. When millennials work for you, life is going to be very different: they are not their father's workforce.

Love Where You Work, Love Your Life

Deri Latimer | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Business
Deri Latimer

Optimism is a perspective; it is a choice about what you decide to say to yourself -- particularly following times of adversity. And, the choice changes everything. Feeling good -- at work and in life -- is just better for you (and for everyone else around you).

How Mentoring Can Save Your Company

Mary Donohue | Posted 02.02.2013 | Canada Business
Mary Donohue

Over the course of the past six months, I have been investigating the "trickle-down" effect of mentoring in the workplace. The trickle-down effect of mentoring is that it enables employees to be more productive and innovative. This is because behaviour is a function of the relationship between people and the environment.

Workplace Support Systems: A Must

Erin Gee | Posted 09.14.2012 | Canada
Erin Gee

A group of friends is only as strong as its weakest link. Fortunately, this weakest link only comes around when a group member going through a particularly difficult time. Needless to say, the support system provided by the group is paramount in the person working through the situation.

Staying Germ-Free at the Office Takes More Than Washing Hands

Jason Tetro | Posted 08.04.2012 | Canada Living
Jason Tetro

2012-05-28-GermGuyBanner.jpg A recent microbiology study of the office has gone further than any other and provided a path for the improvement of the quality of life in the office environment. The team swabbed offices in three major American cities and found the usual suspects -- fecal bacteria, skin bacteria -- but also identified 500 other types of microbes...

Sustainability -- It's Not Just the Planet That's Burning Out

John Izzo | Posted 08.01.2012 | Canada Living
John Izzo

Sustainability doesn't only apply to business practices and our communities -- we need to be mindful of how it plays out in our personal lives as well, especially in the workplace. Burnout and overwork in corporate life have become so commonplace now that we just accept it as a permanent state of affairs.

Workplace Style: 5 Charity Event Style Tips

Julian Brass | Posted 07.02.2012 | Canada Style
Julian Brass

Style. It's not just what you're wearing but also how you act. Over the past several weeks, my team and I at Notable.ca have been outlining five scena...

Creative Spaces: Where to Find Inspiration

Rana Florida | Posted 03.18.2012 | Canada
Rana Florida

Creative workers need peace and quiet and privacy, but they need social stimulation. Can you do that in a fish bowl-style cubicle? Drab furniture, white walls, no natural sunlight, and bland, boring spaces do little to ignite the imagination.

Overcome Work Mistakes: Experts Offer Tips On Owning Up And Moving On

The Huffington Post Canada | Shelley White | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada Living

It's like something out of a bad dream. You're in the middle of a typical day at the office, feeling like your usual confident, competent self. And...