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Tag Archives: Vancouver Island
The Challenges of Employment
The times we live in are a challenge, both for employers and employees. For employees, while it is currently an employee market on Vancouver Island with a very low unemployment rate, it is becoming impossible for those working in entry … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Entrepreneurs, self-employment
Tagged Affordable Housing, Business, Employee retention, Employees, Employers, Employment, Kitimat, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Nanaimo, Recruitment and Retention, Small Business, Trades Shortage, Vancouver Island, Worker Shortage
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How do you keep informed?
Whether you are in business, a community volunteer, or just an interested community participant, you need to know what is going on. The challenge is finding out what works for you. Extroverts will belong to organizations, attend all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Career development, Communication, Community Futures, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Leadership, Lifestyle, Networking, Social Media, Volunteering
Tagged Business, Business Expo, City of Nanaimo, community, Community Leaders, Economic Summit, Extroverts, Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce, Immigrant Welcome Centre, Introverts, Loaves and Fishes, Nanaimo, Nanaimo Magazine, Print, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Social Media, The Bulletin, United Way, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island Conference Centre, Vancouver Island Economic Alliance, VICC, VIEA, Volunteer, Volunteering
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Smoke Gets in Your ………..
Recently we have been breathing, tasting, squinting, through the pall of smoke that has blanketed our province. The children, elderly, and those with respiratory ailments are at risk. Much as that has impacted our lives, there are many who have … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Environment, Lifestyle, Managing stress
Tagged British Columbia, British Columbia Economy, Business, Campfire, community, Employment, Evacuation, Evacuation Alert, Lightning, Mother Nature, Nanaimo, Natural Resources, Orange Sun, Smoke, Stress, Vancouver Island, Wildfires
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Will it Change?
The housing market certainly is not what it used to be. I remember buying our first house for $19,700 with a mortgage payment of $330 per month and thinking, “How will we ever pay for this!” Homes today certainly have … Continue reading
Posted in Business Planning, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Environment, Family
Tagged Affordable Accommodation, Business, Change Management, Chemainus, Comox, Courtenay, Development Charges, Duncan, Economic Growth, Economy, Employment, Environmental Regulations, Infrastructure, Ladysmith, Langford, Mill Bay, Nanaimo, Parksville, Port Alberni, Qualicum Beach, Shawnigan Lake, Sooke, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Victoria, Working Homeless
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Island Proud!
With a potential Trade War looming in the not to distant future, there have been Nationalistic movements on both sides of the US/Canada border. The truth is we don’t realize how much we depend on the Global Marketplace for our … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Communication, Customers, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Lifestyle, Marketing
Tagged 49th Parallel Grocery, Canada, Consumers, Country Grocer, Customers, Employment, Global Marketplace, Island Good, Local Economy, Nanaimo, Quality Foods, Shoppers, Thrifty Foods, Trade War, USA, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island Economic Alliance, VIEA
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Canada Day 2018
Wow! One Hundred and Fifty-one years young! Our vastness has been both a benefit and a curse. Economic Development has been a challenge as it has flourished where transportation is prevalent and slow where the cost of moving goods is … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Communication, Diversity, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Empowering people, Lifestyle, Marketing, Relationships
Tagged Canada, Canada Day, Canadians, community, Economic Development, Global Market, Great Depression, Local Economy, relationships, Transportation, Unemployment, Vancouver, Vancouver Island
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Worker Shortage
While the majority of employers chose to ignore David Foote’s book, ‘Boom, Bust, and Echo’, many are regretting their lack of planning as they scramble to fill the empty positions in their organizations. It is now a regular occurrence to … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Coaching, Communication, Diversity, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Life coaching, organizational change, Team development
Tagged Ability, Business, Change, Change Management, Employee retention, Employees, Employment, Help Wanted, Human Resources, Organizational Change, Organizational development, Persons with a Disability, Recruitment and Retention, Skill Shortage, team building, Unemployment, Vancouver Island, Worker Shortage, Workers
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