by Dr. Helen Ofosu | May 5, 2018 | blog, Career Advice, Workplace Culture
With Mother’s Day approaching I’m reminded of my mom and how she made my brother and I her priorities, even though she always had a very busy professional life and faced many challenges as a relative newcomer to Canada. Without taking well-deserved attention away from...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jul 29, 2017 | blog, Career Advice, Mental Health, Workplace Culture
A marital or other significant split is essentially just that, it’s a split that cuts a painful line between you and your former partner, leaving you divided from the life you once knew and the one you haven’t yet discovered. The severing of a relationship is...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jul 22, 2017 | blog, Career Advice, Mature Professionals , Recent Graduates
Q1. When your clients are planning a career change, I assume that one of your main objectives is to lend them your support and guidance. The career change could be major or minor, either through promotion, creating a new business venture, or just starting out in the...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | May 5, 2017 | blog, Mature Professionals , Workplace Culture
Recently, I came across a simple quote “All mothers are working moms.” With Mother’s Day approaching, I found myself reflecting on the mothers of my mom’s generation and the mothers of my generation. We can all visualize a working mom struggling to put on her...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Feb 19, 2017 | blog, Hiring Staff & HR, Leaders & Executives , Workplace Culture
So, recently I was at a crowded cafe typing emails, quite literally rubbing elbows with two people sitting beside me. I heard one word that really caught my attention; a word that due to my profession was impossible to ignore … it was nepotism. “They don’t respect me,...
