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Careening, Careering or Steering?
Only one of these approaches will get you the results you want in your career. Most people know the word “careening,” defined as “bouncing from side to side in an unsteady way.” You may not be as familiar with “careering” which means “to move swiftly in an...
September–The Other New Year
Is this the year you’re going to make that career move you’ve been thinking about every fall? Last week the new school year began in Ontario. Gill Deacon‒host of CBC’s Here and Now‒asked listeners how they were getting their children ready to ease back into school...
Are You Ready for the September Surge?
Labor Day is just around the corner. Time to update your resumé and make a career plan. Forget January 1; everyone knows that the “real” New Year starts in September. In North America, temperatures and leaves start to drop, kids go back to school, and adults and...
What’s New for 2022?
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...
Denial, Exclusion and Inequity
I 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 letter, this person represents himself as a septuagenarian who “grew up surrounded by 4 reserves and a large …
My Epic Fail: Adventures in Gardening
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...
The 3 Career Management Skills You Need Right Now
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...
Latest Posts

Careening, Careering or Steering?
Only one of these approaches will get you the results you want in your career. Most people know the word “careening,” defined as “bouncing from side to side in an unsteady way.” You may not be as familiar with “careering” which means “to move...
September–The Other New Year
Is this the year you’re going to make that career move you’ve been thinking about every fall? Last week the new school year began in Ontario. Gill Deacon‒host of CBC’s Here and Now‒asked listeners how they were getting their children ready to ease back into school...
Are You Ready for the September Surge?
Labor Day is just around the corner. Time to update your resumé and make a career plan. Forget January 1; everyone knows that the “real” New Year starts in September. In North America, temperatures and leaves start to drop, kids go back to school, and adults and...
What’s New for 2022?
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...
Denial, Exclusion and Inequity
I 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 letter, this person represents himself as a septuagenarian who “grew up surrounded by 4 reserves and a large …
My Epic Fail: Adventures in Gardening
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...
The 3 Career Management Skills You Need Right Now
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...