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Changing Jobs? Avoid These Interview Red Flags

Changing Jobs? Avoid These Interview Red Flags

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | May 14, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Recent Graduates ​

With the Turnover Tsunami creating an employee-driven job market, employers in all sectors are facing a challenge in identifying and attracting qualified new candidates. Despite the challenge, it doesn’t mean employers want to lower their standards. Just because...
Lessons from Unlikely Leaders

Lessons from Unlikely Leaders

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Mar 19, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Leaders & Executives ​

A while back, a client told me about a training program she had attended about “executive presence” and how its tone-deaf message badly missed the mark. The narrow-minded, toxic key message centred on the idea that there is a specific and correct way to be an...
Top Three Soft Skills That Employers Are Looking For

Top Three Soft Skills That Employers Are Looking For

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Mar 5, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Mature Professionals ​, Recent Graduates ​

The modern workplace requires greater soft skills and the ability to build interpersonal relationships – especially in remote or hybrid environments. It’s not easy to integrate multigenerational employees into productive teams. Plus, there are other types of diversity...
Three Leadership Practices to Consider Embracing

Three Leadership Practices to Consider Embracing

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Feb 5, 2022 | blog, Diversity & Inclusion, Mental Health, Workplace Culture ​

Most people would agree that the modern workplace is complicated – for leaders and employees. The rapid shift to remote and hybrid work, the challenges associated with creating multigenerational and inclusive workplace cultures, technological changes, and the...
Difficult Conversations: From Painful to Productive (Part 3 of 3)

Difficult Conversations: From Painful to Productive (Part 3 of 3)

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Nov 13, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Workplace Culture ​

In Parts One and Two of this blog series, I wrote about how conflict avoidance seems to be the most common—but also the most ineffective—strategy for handling difficult conversations. Not only is conflict avoidance an ineffective strategy, but putting off difficult...
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