Wellness: The Vitamin D-Fence
If you’ve seen the many recent headlines claiming that “sunlight may prevent cancer,” you probably wonder if the world isn’t going crazy. Sun exposure causes skin cancer, so how can this be?
Goofy Props Essential for Diversionary Humour
Your six-year-old chooses this morning to decide he isn’t going to school. The 45 minutes it takes to cajole and threaten him with time-outs and loss of TV privileges means you miss that project meeting you spent months setting up.
The Income Tax: A Noble Beginning
No reasonable citizen will argue against the notion that it is a civic obligation to provide financial support for the services provided by national, provincial and municipal governments.
How To Quit Your Job
Those two little words changed Henry’s life. During the 17 years he worked for Company X, Henry suffered through boredom, disrespect and a shamefully low wage. And although his friends asked him, almost daily,
When co-workers are late, they’re always, always late
An issue that exists in most workplaces but is seldom at the forefront of discussion is that of employees who are chronically late, whether in getting to work or returning from breaks or lunches.
It’s Time to ‘But-Out’ in the Workplace
Letting Go of a Very Bad Habit: the Instinctive Urge to Control Conversations
This column isn’t about smoking in the workplace. It’s about a simple little change in communication behaviour that can pay big dividends in collaboration and productivity. Bluntly put, I think it’s time to regulate the use of the little word ‘but’ in everyday work relationships.
What I Think: A Million-Dollar Question
I was kayaking and enjoying the beautiful autumn colours with a friend recently. I was in the moment, fully aware that I would not be able to paddle the lake again until next year.
Boost Your LPM Rating at Work
Everyone knows it’s a good thing to use humour in presentations. And since we all agree on the importance of humour, I’m going to go right to the nuts and bolts and show you how to write a stand-up-comedy-style joke.
Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!
A few, very rare things in life have the power to transcend space and time, creed, colour and custom to become a Universal Tradition. Chocolate is one of them. Who doesn’t love the rich, swirling, sweet, delicious burst of flavour offered by a slab of milk chocolate?
A Career-Enhancing Move
Today’s corporate environments are unique worlds, with every possible personality type interacting in the dance constituting the office social network.