I haven’t seen the new Star Wars movie just yet, but I’m told by my son-in-law it’s “a must see”. ‘May the Force be with you’ is a phrase used to wish an individual or group good luck or good will.
‘Things happen in three’ or is it ‘three times a charm’? When I look back at 2017, I take a deep breathe and ask myself, it is over yet because it was a long one!
The year started out with a very real health scare for my loving and thankfully recovering husband; a significant move for my family 4 hours away from a community we adored, and then most recently, I was blindsided by a global layoff from a company I loved with a “your job role has been eliminated”. (Oh, and I turned 50. Darn, that’s 4 things! )
Recently, CBC devoted attention to a topic of great interest to Women in Communications and Technology: Canadian tech companies’ commitment to diversity.
I confess! I was a nay-sayer. I remember the strategic shift that Canadian Women in Communications took to embrace and include IT in its mandate. I brazenly diminished the strategy. Karma is both a teacher and a bitch.
Women in communications and technology celebrates the recipients of the 2017 WCT annual leadership awards.
Ottawa, February 22 2017. Women in Communications and Technology announces applications are now open for positions in its ground-breaking Protégé Project. The WCT Protégé Project, funded by Corus Entertainment and Status of Women Canada, is a career sponsorship program designed to address the fact that only 5.1% of Canadian CEOs and company leaders are women. The WCT Protégé Project is the first of its kind in Canada as the only cross-industry and cross-sector career sponsorship program.
Beyond making the usual annual resolutions to exercise more and give up sugar, the start of the new year presents an opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve our career ambitions. This commonly means introspection and a search for options that will help us get “unstuck” from our current job situation by actively implementing strategies for advancement.
Nilufer Erdebil, founder and CEO of Spring2Innovation, a innovation consulting firm, shares 6 steps to foster a culture of innovation in your organization.
The word “innovation” is used all the time but there is a lack of discussion on the topic of how to be more innovative. A lot of becoming more innovative comes down to workplace culture and building the right environment where everyone can contribute to innovation. Here are six easy ways to begin fostering a culture of innovation:
