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Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail ON THE JOB You're in your early to mid-sixties, have just marked your 25-year milestone at the company, are liked and [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail MANAGEMENT Look around any company and you'll likely see them - the incompetent, the ladder climber, the ego monster, even the [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION When she was growing up, Kathy Collard was painfully shy and withdrawn. 'I was the kid who never put [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail THE JOB HUNT Congratulations. After countless interviews, you've finally been offered your dream job. All that's left to do now, you're [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT / HOW TO GET CREATIVE - AND GET HIRED Sofia Theodorou, vice-president of human resources at Toronto's LoyaltyOne Inc. [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail STRATEGY Working together. Collaborating. Teamwork. Team player. They may sound like overused office buzzwords, but today's workplace demands a high level [...]

Byline: Jennifer Myers; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT CREDIT THE RECESSION Forty-five per cent of U.S. organizations implemented alternative workplace strategies within the past two years, according [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT DECIBEL LEVELS Comfortable hearing levels are below 60 decibels (dBA), according to the U.S. National Institute on Deafness and [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail CALLING IN SICK You're sneezing, coughing, feel achy all over and know you're likely running a fever. You know you should [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail RETENTION Tom Short, president of Rare Method Interactive Corp., knew that one of his senior staffers was worried about the company's [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION When was the last time you received a thank you from your boss for a job well done? How [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT / WORKPLACE FRIENDSHIPS 'You've gotta have friends,' as Bette Midler's song goes. And that goes for the workplace, too. [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT / EDUCATION Canada's economy may be picking up, but experts say there's still one challenge that could stand in [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT / INNOVATION In a fragile economy, with companies still scrambling to keep their businesses running, innovation and creativity are [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT When the Olympic torch makes its final run into Vancouver's city centre on opening day this Friday, it will [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS WEEKEND WORKOUT / HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES After a year of layoffs, cutbacks and wage freezes, recession-weary employers are grappling with whether to throw an annual holiday party. On [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT / WORKPLACE CHARITY DRIVES 'Tis the season for giving. But with the economy leaving many feeling financially squeezed, it [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail WEEKEND WORKOUT Lack of job security, disillusionment and the ceaseless demand to do more with less have triggered the collective angst [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS WEEKEND WORKOUT / SOCIAL MEDIA As the use of social media keeps growing, companies are still grappling with the best ways to take advantage of these technological [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail TREND / BOOMERANG WORKERS When Bob Rohrer was laid off from his job as a human resources director at a multinational [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail GENDERS For years, women have believed that, to succeed in business, they have to act like men. But really, women just [...]

Byline: JENNIFER MYERS; Special to The Globe and Mail ECONOMIC FALLOUT: SURVIVOR GUILT After layoffs, the toll on those left behind John Hull can still recall the stunned faces and [...]