Resources

Top 5 Resources for Supporting Work-Life Balance

Here’s my top 5 ideas for supporting your team with work-life balance: 1. Encourage socializing - Don’t look down on employees for having water cooler conversations or chatting in between assignments — better yet, join in when it makes sense to do so! Encouraging...

How to Deal With Resistance to Diversity & Inclusion

Change of any kind is often met with some level of resistance so it is no surprise that some people – both men and women – resist changing a workplace culture to be more gender diverse and inclusive. In the report “The Path of Least RESISTANCE to Gender Diversity...

Become an Ally – Toolkit

Want to know how to be an ally to underrepresented groups in your workplace? This report provides “the ally journey spectrum” to help individuals learn the steps they can take to contribute to an inclusive workplace culture. It also provides tangible allyship actions...

AI: Arrogance and Ignorance?

Ok I said it – those two letters that are at the forefront of everyone’s mind these days, but I’ve applied them to two words that are at the forefront of everyone’s mind when it comes to equity and inclusion. I’ve witnessed arrogance and ignorance first hand – not...

Free to Grow in Forestry Podcast – Hosted by Kelly Cooper

A podcast working to move #ForestryForward. Today’s forest sector is changing, and many organizations are making strides toward implementing inclusion and diversity measures and recruiting underrepresented groups (such as women, Indigenous peoples, new Canadians,...

Inclusive Leadership – Creating a culture of empowerment, accountability and belonging

This report takes a look at best practices from twelve leading international companies that are certified in gender equality in the workplace by DiversityInc (international focus) and Women in Governance (Canadian focus) and identifies various approaches and tools...

Blog

Mainstreaming Social Intelligence

If you talk with psychologists about social intelligence, they will be clear that it’s been around since Daniel Goleman introduced the term in the late 1990’s. His definition is “the ability to get along well with others, and to get them to cooperate with you.” He’s...

Millennials Seek Work-Life Integration

As someone from the gen-X cohort, I have tried hard to attain a work-life balance throughout my life, albeit with measured success. But the Millennials, who are those between the ages of 18-34, have pushed this idea one step further and are seeking work-life...

Women in Forestry

It’s no newsflash that the forest sector has been undergoing unprecedented transformation with both the types of products it produces and processes used, but what is surprising is the lack of transformation on the workforce representation of women. Women continue to...

Government Should Be Leading the Way on Social Intelligence

Governments have a moral obligation to lead Canadians toward a better way of living and often do so through the development and implementation of policies. Social intelligence should be no different. I’ve mentioned previously how corporations should increase their...

Social Intelligence Can Optimize A Corporations Effectiveness

Leading companies are focusing on advancing environmental and social aspects of their company and tracking it through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. Much of the conversation to date has focused on environmental issues and concerns with only...

New Year Reflections

January is the month for reflection – of the year gone by and the year ahead. I often find myself drawing down the lessons from the year with the hope that I will integrate those nuggets of knowledge into my being such that it no longer seems to be a lesson, just an...