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Exploring the Hiring Landscape in 2025

Exploring the Hiring Landscape in 2025

Legal professionals bring unique expectations to the job market, and understanding these expectations is essential for l...
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What Does an HR Operations Manager Do?

What Does an HR Operations Manager Do?

Do you have the right background and skills to be an effective HR Operations Manager? Find out what they do and the cruc...
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7 Powerful Networking Tips for Lawyers

7 Powerful Networking Tips for Lawyers

If you want to further your legal career, consider networking. Networking can take a variety of forms, and in this post,...
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Can AI Help Your Law Firm?

Can AI Help Your Law Firm?

Artificial Intelligence (AI)  tools like ChatGPT and Harvey AI are offering law firms new opportunities to streamline t...
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How to Leave Your Law Firm

How to Leave Your Law Firm

Are you considering leaving your law firm? Moving on from your current employer is a difficult decision that requires ca...
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Why Offer Pro Bono Work?

Why Offer Pro Bono Work?

Team-building and effective recruitment—these are just two of the reasons law firms may offer pro bono work. The need ...
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What Size Law Firm Is Right for You?

What Size Law Firm Is Right for You?

For Canadian lawyers in search of their ideal firm, one size does not fit all.  From salary considerations to caselo...
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Canada's Top 3 Legal Trends in 2022

Canada's Top 3 Legal Trends in 2022

As we make our way back to a ‘near normal’ world, three key trends underpin post-pandemic strategies in Canada’s l...
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Traits of Informal Leaders

Traits of Informal Leaders

Leading without Jurisdiction The word ‘leader’, especially in traditional organizations, typically refers to a co...
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Compassionate Leadership

Compassionate Leadership

Over the past two years, our spirits have been tested - at home and at work. Most of us have experienced increased fear,...
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5 Steps to Creating Your Personal Brand

5 Steps to Creating Your Personal Brand

“Why would I want to brand myself? I am not a product.” No, you are not a product. You are so much more. But no one ...
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The De-glorification of Busyness

The De-glorification of Busyness

Success has typically been associated with financial wealth and power. People often equate success with busyness because...
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What a year it's been!

What a year it's been!

We celebrate this season with hearts full of gratitude for our countless blessings. And with much joy and appreciatio...
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Hybrid Is Not a Place

Hybrid Is Not a Place

It’s almost hard to remember a time when the term ‘hybrid workplace’ didn’t exist. Over the past 20 months, comp...
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Why Kindness Matters at Work

Why Kindness Matters at Work

We don’t typically associate kindness with success in the workplace. Ambition, competence, commitment and reliability ...
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Practicing Gratitude

Practicing Gratitude

More and more organizations are recognizing both the human and business potential that gratitude unlocks - greater happi...
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Celebrating Canada's Great Women in Law

Celebrating Canada's Great Women in Law

In 1992, the Government of Canada designated October as Women’s History Month, celebrating the women and girls from ou...
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The Real Impacts of Virtual Distance

The Real Impacts of Virtual Distance

We have been thinking a lot about the concept of Virtual Distance lately, and how the shift from in-person to digital in...
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6 Steps to Becoming More Productive

6 Steps to Becoming More Productive

What does a tomato have to do with time management and productivity? The Pomodoro Technique (pomodoro means tomato in It...
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Toxic Positivity

Toxic Positivity

Today we are launching our new YouTube channel. Please subscribe to receive notifications for each new post, and like or...
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Mayday?

Mayday?

“I do by myself” is often one of a toddler’s first phrases. Something about us humans highly values independence. ...
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Work Anywhere - But Anytime?

Work Anywhere - But Anytime?

Over a matter of weeks in early 2020, a global seismic shift occurred, catapulting employees from their workplaces into ...
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Courage in the Workplace

Courage in the Workplace

Universally admired, courage is the ability to act despite fear or anxiety, and is considered by philosophers and many m...
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Courageous Conversations

Courageous Conversations

“We need to talk.” Dreaded words that often mean something isn't right. Whether you are initiating a difficult conv...
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Time For Change

Time For Change

I’m too old/young. I’ve invested too much time in my education/career/the company. I have bills to pay. There are ma...
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Zoom Fatigue

Zoom Fatigue

Initially, teleworking was something of a relief amidst all the pandemic uncertainty. For those of us lucky enough to wo...
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Your Greatest Hidden Resource

Your Greatest Hidden Resource

Access to computing and analytic data is changing the world exponentially and enabling decision-making at an unprecedent...
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Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome

Throughout your career, have you ever experienced an overwhelming feeling of self-doubt? A nagging thought in the back o...
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Rewiring for Optimism

Rewiring for Optimism

Over the past several months, despite the unrelenting pandemic, sluggish economy, and the general slowdown that typical...
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Our Very Favourite Things of 2020

Our Very Favourite Things of 2020

Whether you ascribe to its religious meaning or not, Christmas has traditionally been about giving, and giving is univer...
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Transcending the Generation Demographic

Transcending the Generation Demographic

Each generation is typically characterized by a set of workplace stereotypes. Millennials in particular have had a bad r...
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Artificial Intelligence; Friend or Foe?

Artificial Intelligence; Friend or Foe?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of those terms that either confuses you, excites you, or makes your eyes glaze over....
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What Is EQ?

What Is EQ?

Daniel Goleman, author of the book Emotional Intelligence, defines it as “the ability to understand and manage your ow...
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The Essence of Recruitment

The Essence of Recruitment

Recruiters sometimes get a bad rap, and recruitment horror stories abound (check it out, there are over 4,000,000 result...
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Rewiring for Gratitude

Rewiring for Gratitude

Thanksgiving 2020 will be an interesting one. COVID-19, an omnipresent reality through most of this year, has resulted i...
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