by Flavio Mester | Sep 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Emily Schmidt The last couple of years have seen organizations looking to any and all sources of information for how to navigate pandemic decisions…including university grads going through the hiring process for the first time. Unexpected questions in pandemic job...
by Flavio Mester | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
I don’t know if Lisa LaFlamme’s dismissal was a result of ageism. I do know it’s a big deal that, within minutes of her Twitter sign-off, Canadians from coast to coast to coast began talking about ageism. In that moment, thousands of Canadians related to Lisa...
by Flavio Mester | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Challenge Factory is back in the office. Not everyone comes in every day—a dynamic that was also true for us before the pandemic. On days when we are in the office, each of us has had to reset our morning rituals. We’ve found there is a period of adjustment that has...
by Flavio Mester | Mar 2, 2022 | Blog, Career Ownership, Featured, Future of Work, Lifelong Career Development
For many, it’s a great time to be an employee. The pandemic has shone a light on work-life balance and labour shortages remain high, with employers looking to fill almost 900,000 vacancies. Even though the Great Resignation has skipped Canada so far, there’s no...
by Flavio Mester | Jan 12, 2022 | Blog, Crisis Management, Leadership
Omicron Groundhog Day: Now, more than ever, it’s the time for business and leadership strategy. In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors asks the question, “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the...