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Corporate scapegoats and sacrificial lambs … what to do if you become one.
In this blog post, I will discuss corporate scapegoats or sacrificial lambs that sometimes fall victim to corporate psychopaths (or are just very unlucky) … and more importantly how they can recover after being unjustly let go.
Mothers Take Many Forms
Regardless of our stage of life or our gender, most of us need to build resilient careers so that they will provide a livelihood that helps us take care of our loved ones …
How to be a fox when interviewing a wolf (Part 2)
In this blog, Dr. Helen continues to discuss corporate psychopaths who often become successful and powerful by using exploitation and manipulation to get ahead. She lists a few ways that businesses and other organizations can prevent these wolf-like predators from prowl…
Corporate Psychopaths – wolves in the workplace (Part 1)
To borrow from the animal narrative, I would argue that corporate psychopaths don’t always slink and slither throughout certain organizations as they are portrayed on the cover of ‘Snakes and Suits’, sometimes they’re more cunning like a wolf …
Phone Anxiety 101
These days, many people use their phones for everything except talking. There are a bunch of advantages associated with these versatile devices but there’s also a dark side: a significant number of people physically struggle to talk on the phone. This is having a nega…
Favouritism never works in the workplace
Some of my readers may know that I have one child. This makes it OK for me to call him my favourite son. However, in many families, schools, and workplaces, it’s just not right to call somebody your favourite when there’s more than one person in a particular role.
Is work supposed to make you happy?
You may have heard the saying that the average person changes jobs 7 times in their lifetime? What if I told you that in today’s world job changes are even more common than that. In fact, some stats indicate that many people will have over 10 different jobs by the tim…
Visible Disabilities … the unseen problems in the workplace
In the past, I’ve written about the experience of silently struggling with invisible disabilities. In this article, I address the challenges that people with visible disabilities face, and how often ableism, a bias in favour of able-bodied people, in the workforce affec…
