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...
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...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Nov 20, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Diversity & Inclusion, Hiring Staff & HR, Workplace Culture
I just celebrated my ninth anniversary of starting I/O Advisory Services. How the time has flown by. I’ve experienced many of the ups and downs that business owners face, and also many, many surprises along the way. And I don’t regret it for a minute! I’ve...
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...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Oct 2, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Mental Health
Pandemic Flux: Why Many of Us Are Rethinking … Everything Recently, I have been reflecting on the “Big Quit” that seems to be happening across many workplaces and documented in countless articles. Some of those reflections are described in my recent two-part blog on...
