Meaningful staff engagement tools
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Health Canada has developed six diversity collaboration tools that are readily adaptable and can be tailored to use across a...
Changing the business-government relationship
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Like all provinces, Nova Scotia is grappling with transforming the way it provides services to citizens. And like most, it...
Business continuity fundamentals
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Business continuity management has evolved into a specialized discipline, but you don’t need a team of specialists to create and...
Performance management and poor performers
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This time of year the Clerk of the Privy Council puts out his annual report to the Prime Minister on...
Why your crisis communication plan is a waste
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Chances are good your organization has a crisis communications plan. Sitting in a binder somewhere, it has written documentation on...
Huron Challenge: Post-Fukushima exercise proves all hazards response
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In March of 2011, the east coast of Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands...
Mergers and successful transitions
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The idea of a merger of DFAIT and CIDA is not a new one. In the early 1990s, Prime Minister...
Building sandcastles
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The best sand castle I ever built was constructed on top of someone else’s; a deep moat that surrounded a...
Does the social impact bond deliver?
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Yesterday the Globe and Mail reported that the federal government hopes to get some programs and services financed and delivered...