Mental Health First Aid for the Workplace - How leaders can support their team.

A recent research study by Zhang and colleagues took a deep dive into the scientific literature and found that a leaders’ Emotional Intelligence (EI) has a positive impact on project performance, and that this impact is more significant in more complex projects.

With every bad meeting comes significant consequences. Employees and leaders across the board complain that meetings don't allow them enough time to get their work done. Unclear instructions and actions lead to confusion. Bad organization results in loss of focus on projects, and delays completion. Irrelevant attendees slow down the conversation, and extend meeting duration. Essentially, bad meetings are contagious. So what can you do to avoid all this?

What is psychological safety? Essentially, people feel they can take interpersonal risk at work. For example, expressing opinions or behaviours that may be different from the norm. So how do we create a psychologically safe space in the workplace?

Have you ever stopped and wondered how this lasting pandemic will shape the class of talent entering into the workplace? What opportunities and set-backs are involved? How can companies prepare for this “war” and what perks and benefits should they consider offering?

Q&A with Dr. Ivan Joseph, Erin Davis and Dr. Lisa Belanger exploring how leaders can start the conversation and help impact change from the top down, how to make real change, how diversity and inclusion positively affect the bottom line, and more.

As more companies than ever are prioritizing conversations around diversity inclusion, how can companies genuinely invest in initiatives with meaningful outcomes? How can leaders take a proactive approach in ensuring they are creating diverse and inclusive workplaces? How does diversity and inclusion impact the bottom line? More importantly, how can you have a direct impact on diversity inclusion, regardless of where you sit in your company or organization?

As a result of COVID-19 restrictions, the landscape for charities and philanthropies has changed dramatically over the last year. On one hand, there is substantially more need for charitable services. Whether this is food bank services or English as a Second Language training services, the economic volatility of the pandemic has brought many more people to a position where they could benefit from the work done by charities in some way.