Last week I was privileged with the opportunity to attend Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) for the region of southwestern Ontario. As a representative of Rotary Kitchener Westmount, I met young role models who are recognized as community leaders due to their personal experiences and development.
I met individuals with all sorts of personalities on my first day. Photography junkies to all-star athletes, you name the talent and one of these thirty-six individuals would have it. I started…

This is one of the most talked about topics in HR today. Why? The success of your business depends on it.

The term "talent management" means different things to different organizations. In my view, it is all about gathering information about talent, analyzing ones career interests and organizational business needs, identifying top talent and successes, and developing individuals to reduce the risk of losing the best people and experiencing extensive leadership gaps when turnover occurs. While…

"You can't talk to me that way," Roberta shouted as she rose to her feet.  "I'm an elected representative of my region.  My job is to tell it like it is!"

"Well, pity your region. They've elected an idiot!" George snapped.

Wide-eyed, the Chair wondered what he should do. Jenna, another director joined the shouting, "Wait just a minute! I already said I agreed with Roberta on her point. Does that mean you're calling me an idiot?!"

Bob jumped to her aid, with his outstretched arm pointed at…

Waterloo, ON, February 28, 2012 - Capacity Waterloo Region (CWR) announced today a partnership with Manulife Financial to support its flagship Board Governance Boot Camp for non-profit charity CEOs and board chairs. Launched in 2010 with Wilfrid Laurier University's School of Business and Economics, more than 50 organizations have now participated in this intensive three-day boot camp that helps non-profit charity boards tackle the issues which have the greatest impact on board effectiveness…

Talent Acquisition is the new term for recruitment, why? - Simply put, it aligns with an organizations talent management strategy and is the beginning process of acquiring the right talent for your organization. Some organizations combine talent acquisition (focused on external talent) with the talent management team (focused on internal talent) this varies by industry and business. Whether you are an organization of 2 or 200,000 people, the basic strategy remains the same; Recruitment is the…

HR's overarching mission has been compartmentalized as four-fold: (1) aligning HR and business strategy (business or strategic partner), (2) re-engineering organization processes (administration expert), (3) listening and responding to employees (employee champion), and (4) managing transformation and change (change agent). More specifically, It consists of 3 primary elements;

1.Business / Strategic Partners (aligned to the business and or client groups - employee champion);
2.Centers of…

Human Resources (HR) what is it, what does it mean, what do they do. Same questions I used to ask before I got into HR and I hope these series of blogs will help unravel some of those mysteries.

By definition, HR is a set of individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector or an economy.   Simply put, Human resource management (HRM, or simply HR) is the professional discipline and business function that oversees an organization's human resources. 

Some of human…