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Celebrating Canadian Business Excellence
Excellence Canada is proud to honor organizations that exemplify a commitment to excellence and drive success in their industries. The Canadian Business Excellence Awards for Private Businesses recently recognized exceptional organizations that demonstrated a...
Subject Line: Are you ready for a drink?
Given the interesting times we’re living in, you could be forgiven for thinking of adult beverages when you read the subject line. But what I’m referring to is that old adage, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”
‘Together, we can improve lives’: Excellence Canada releases Workplace Mental Health Essentials Toolkit to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Month
Excellence Canada, a pioneer in workplace mental health strategy and solutions, is pleased to announce that they are offering their Workplace Mental Health Essentials Toolkit at no cost to all employers in Canada.
The Employee Experience, and why it should be your top priority in 2021
For the majority of organizations, the customer’s experience is priority number one. In today’s world, options are plentiful, and if a customer’s experience is not seamless they will simply go elsewhere. As a result, strategy and resources are dedicated to retaining customers, reducing attrition, and attracting new customers.
Excellence Canada Announces New Organizational Excellence Standard
Excellence Canada, an independent not-for-profit corporation, announced today its newest standard: the Organizational Excellence Standard (OES). Through the OES, Excellence Canada sets the bar for performance excellence and wellness in today’s dynamic work environment.
Calling all Business Excellence Award Winners and Applicants
Our Friends at the Centre for Organizational Excellence Research in New Zealand are doing some interesting research that Canada Awards for Excellence recipient organizations might be interested in.
Excellence Canada and The Inclusion Project enter into a strategic alliance to promote racial equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada
Through a strategic alliance for employment equity and organizational excellence, The Inclusion Project (TIP) and Excellence Canada (EC) are supporting Canada’s top organizations, institutions, and stakeholders to advance racial equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) across public and private sectors.
The Future of Work: Insights from Leaders in Canada
The Excellence Canada “Thought Leaders’ Round Table” (TLRT) met in October 2020 to discuss two critical issues impacting Canadian organizations: The Future of Work, and the urgent need for Diversity and Inclusion in workplaces.
Parents’ Employment and Mental Well-being during the Pandemic
While most of us have adapted to parenting and working as part of our normal everyday life, throwing a global pandemic into the mix is nothing short of confusing and chaotic. The pandemic has changed the way we parent…
Working Through COVID-19: Clear the Runway for Takeoff!
Now, as our organizations are still reeling from a cruel body blow and are hunkered down in a protective position, we have already begun thinking about ramping operations back up in a changed world. But our runway for takeoff may be cluttered with some obsolete...
10 “F’ing” Strategies to Get Through this Covid-19 Crisis!
We have heard all the adjectives describing this Covid-19 crisis: “Unprecedented times, extraordinary and crazy times, the world in chaos, once in a 100 years pandemic, etc.”