What We’ve Been Reading It’s almost that time of year again.. Yep. Soon the latest batch of new grads will be exiting their institutions and hitting the job market. Many will become disillusioned as they struggle to be hired into positions where they get to use the talents they’ve spent years accumulating. It’s frustrating to…
What We’ve Been Reading On-boarding – One size NEVER fits all Disengagement for new employees – particularly younger employees – begins with the onboarding process. Our research (and others, like the Gallup Q12) indicate that the most disengaged workers tend to be younger, with university degrees. Only, we don’t think it’s because of a lack…
What We’ve Been Reading Competency-based hiring… it’s an emerging trend, and it seems to (finally) be catching on. Maybe. It’s an interesting and emerging trend, driven by employer dissatisfaction with traditional skills proxies – there’s an article here from way back in 2015 from the US-based SHRM organization, that explains what it is, why you…
Our co-founder Jeff Griffiths has been selected to the inaugural Board of Directors for the Calgary “LearningCITY Collective” – a unique initiative to create a truly vibrant and rich learning culture in Calgary that includes all forms of learning: formal, informal and experiential, credited and non-credited, from all aspects of the learning ecosystem – school,…
