by Day Merrill | Oct 16, 2022 | Career Exploration, Executive Coaching, Job Search
Happy Fall and belated Thanksgiving Greetings! One of the things I learned when I moved to Canada is that Thanksgiving in October−not Labour Day at the beginning of September or even the solstice on September 21st−is actually the last day of summer. We Canadians have...
by Day Merrill | Jan 5, 2022 | Business Challenges, Strategic Career Management, Workplace Challenges
Happy New Year! In case you missed it over the holidays, Ontario has enacted some new legislation for 2022: New laws and changes coming to Ontario in 2022 | CTV News. Some of these changes directly impact work relationships, so whether you are an employer, an employee...
by Day Merrill | Nov 2, 2021 | Organizational Support, Workplace Challenges
Copyright © Eyesplash Photography 2013I spent a few hours over the weekend researching the provenance of a Facebook post a lovely elderly member of my church sent to me about a purported Toronto Sun article based on a letter received from a “Jim Bissell.” In the...
by Day Merrill | Oct 19, 2021 | Career Exploration, Coaching, Individuals, Job Search
This photo depicts the sum total of my vegetable gardening efforts for this year. A solitary tomato (there were a few others, but the squirrels beat me to them) and an unruly bunch of Brillo-tough parsley–that’s it. Sigh. Every spring, I have such grand plans for the...
by Day Merrill | Sep 17, 2021 | Strategic Career Management
To say that these are tumultuous times is an understatement. Since March of 2020, we’ve been sent home to work, locked down/opened up/locked down again, furloughed and recalled, let go, rehired and more. We’ve seen the Great Retirement of Boomers, the Great...
