Forgive me readers, for I have not blogged – it has been 2 months since my last post. Even though I am not Catholic, and I don’t personally hold much stock in the concept of sin, I want to use this post to confess to those of you who had been following this blog as [...]

I had a great example recently of how one word, a unconscious slip of the tongue, the use of a habitual phrase can unintentionally offend. I was traveling for work. I got off the plane and went to the rental car kiosk. The customer service agent got high marks for his pleasant, welcoming and efficient [...]

One of the things I discuss in my book Road to Respect is how bad behavior is often tolerated within workplaces. Excuses are made. “Oh that is just (whomever). That is just how she/he is”. When nothing is done to deal with workplace disrespect, everyone soon accepts it as “just the way it is around [...]

In the last few weeks I have been reading a lot of interesting factoids about both the year and the decade that just ended. One study reported that over 80% of women surveyed said they were busier than ever in 2009. Did that mean that they would be making resolutions to be less busy in [...]

One of the questions I pondered with friends and family this holiday season was “how will this decade be remembered. What will the legacy of this decade be?” As this is something we only get to consider once every ten years it provoked some interesting discussion. Among those I spoke to terrorism and technology – [...]

December 10, 2009 marks the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the UN in 1948, this was the first document in human history that talked about and enshrined the notion that each of us, by virtue of our membership in the human race, are deserving of respectful [...]

I was a panelist asked to choose the worst bosses from a list complied by eBossWatch. This site (www.ebosswatch.com) was launched by Asher Adelman in 2007 to help people avoid toxic workplaces. eBossWatch enables people to anonymously rate their current or former bosses using a respectable and focused evaluation form so that job-seekers can better [...]

Yesterday, Dec 6 2009, marked the 20th anniversary of the shooting rampage of Marc Lepine at Universite de Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, when Lepine killed 14 female students and injured 13 others before turning the gun on himself. The reason for his rampage? Anger; at the fact that women were interested in working in “non-traditional” workplaces, [...]

October 12 is Thanksgiving Day for those of us living above the 49th parallel. Like many of my fellow Canadians, I am making a purposeful effort to be thankful today for all the gifts I have in my life. I am thinking about all of the reasons I have to be grateful. Turns out that [...]

This morning I received an email from an advocacy group I support, asking me to sign a petition about the truth of health care in Canada.  The intention is for the petition to be released in the US media and given to US Senators before they cast their votes on President Obama’s health care reform [...]