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Rebuilding After a Layoff: A Mental Health Guide to Getting Back on Your Feet

Laid off and feeling the weight of financial stress? This practical, mental health-focused guide offers clear steps to help you stabilize, regroup, and rebuild with self-respect.

Fact Check—Understanding the Current Economic Landscape

Rising inequality, unaffordable housing, and shifting labor markets are redefining economic life in high-income countries. Across North America, data reveals deep structural trends shaping how people live, work, and build security.

The Psychological Foundations of Innovation: Key Personality Traits That Catalyze Creativity

The ability to innovate – to transcend traditional ideas and create meaningful new ones – is a prized quality in many sectors, from business to the arts.

Identifying a Healthy Workplace: Safeguard Your Mental Health

Looking for a workplace that boosts your mental well-being and growth? Discover the key traits of a healthy work environment and how to spot them in your job search. Explore practical tips for identifying trust-based cultures and supportive interactions.

Embracing Failure: The Path to Innovation and Personal Growth

Failure is not the end, but a crucial stepping stone toward success and innovation. Discover how embracing setbacks can lead to profound personal growth and groundbreaking achievements in both business and life.

Psychopathic Psychological Profiles in Power: The Role of the Dark Triad in Career Progression

Some psychopathic traits, such as charm, assertiveness, and a lack of emotional attachment, can make individuals more adept at navigating the political landscape of large organizations, potentially aiding in their ascent up the corporate ladder.

Six Behaviors of Toxic Co-Workers

Toxic work cultures make going to work feeling miserable. In a toxic culture, new ideas can’t thrive; people can’t be honest; bullying occurs, leaders are given the power that can go to their heads and fuel their egos.

Embracing Change: My Journey from Corporate to Creativity

Reflecting on six years since leaving the corporate world, I'm delighted to report that life can indeed flourish outside the traditional rat race. Everything turned out well, and I've found myself even happier and more at peace in this new chapter.

December 03, 2022

Effective Strategies for Building Self-Confidence

The following tips are a mixture of evidence-based strategies, life experience, and recommendations from some of the best in the field.

August 07, 2021

The impacts to your body when you hate your job, and what to do about it.

Everyone has bad days at work, but there are signs that employees need to watch out for before a bad week at the office turns into never-ending, debilitating work stress that ruins your health. A toxic job can make you sick in a multitude of ways.

February 06, 2021

Five Steps to achieve a successful and rewarding career transition

It is estimated that the average person will change careers five to seven times in their working life and that approximately 30 percent of the workforce will change jobs every 12 months. But how do people manage to do this? In some cases, they seek the help of a Transitional Career Coach.

Six signs your co-workers are toxic and three effective ways of responding

Research indicates the single most important factor in team success or failure is the quality of relationships on the team. One toxic team member is all it takes to destroy a high-performing team.

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