Long before the pandemic, many people would look at their jobs and ask themselves “is this what I want to do?”. It was only during the pandemic that those for whom the answer was “no” decided to act, en masse. Their decision to leave their...
In our last episode of The Nexus, veteran storyteller Steve Pratt told you where stories work. Now, in our next episode on storytelling in the workplace, we’re going to tell you why stories work. Or, more specifically, Dr. Peter Jensen...
Before it became the on-trend leadership skill of the post-COVID age, we here at Nexus were advising clients on how to use storytelling in their organizations. Now, teaching leaders to do something they probably do all the time outside of office...
This summer, you probably had to go WAY off the grid on your vacation to not hear about the latest workplace trend – quiet quitting. Exact definitions vary, but Quiet Quitting boils down to this: consciously choosing to not do anything...
Every five years since the early 90s, the UK government has tracked something called “work intensity” and what they’ve found is disturbing if not surprising: more people are saying they work harder to tighter deadlines under greater levels of...
It’s a secret to no one that for a long time, women have had to overcome systemic disadvantages in the workplace…and the pandemic did not help. As we’ve explored in other episodes, the lock downs of recent years have affected women (and working...
“You would think in the whole hiring process… it would be more sophisticated than it is. It is still stuck in the same way it was twenty, thirty, forty years ago!” – Jack Kelly, Founder & CEO of WeCruitr, The Nexus...
Last week, it was announced the unemployment rate in the US was 3.6%, the lowest since February 2020, and below market projections for this year. In Canada, the rate stands at 5.3% – the lowest unemployment rate since 1976! To put this in...
The Times They Are a-Changin’ … 2022 has been a year of employee backlash from trucker convoys to vaccine mandates to protesting anti-union tactics, all playing out against a backdrop of shifting supply chains and tight talent markets...
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind…” Here at the Nexus, we love it when our guests give us (intentionally or otherwise) the subject of our next episode. That is exactly what Future Forum’s Helen Kupp did for us recently. In our...