Small business is big business in Canada. There is less and less association between the number of employees in a company and its revenue potential. The driver is talent, including how companies, find it, enable it and accelerate it. Large enterprise organizations can afford dedicated HR staff, expensive platforms and premium custom training content and programs. Smaller businesses, however, have just as much need to enable and accelerate the abilities of the talent they work so hard to find and recruit.

The workforce is becoming an increasingly competitive space. As companies move to more fluid employment models, careers are becoming more precarious. It’s no longer good enough to just be good enough. Like companies, we need to stay competitive at the personal career level. Join digital entrepreneur and innovator Martin Byrne and host Liz West as they discuss practical tips for becoming skilled at staying skilled.

Today’s businesses need to be able to respond to change in a quick, agile manner. Having a culture that is resistant to change is no longer an option for businesses across industries. According to Future Forward guest, Brett Knowles, the best way to solve the problem of complacency is to dissolve it. Join Brett and Liz as they explore how to transform an organization’s corporate culture from one that struggles to maintain the status quo to one that craves change and takes advantage of opportunities.

According to a recent Forbes article, it’s almost 10 times harder to get a job at Google than it is to be accepted into Harvard, yet Google receives more than two million applications each year. Why does everyone want to work at giants like Google and Amazon and what are these companies doing to ensure top talent stays? Join Brett Knowles and Liz West as they discuss effective strategies for engaging employees.

It has long been observed that Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials and Xennials have different priorities, attitudes, communication styles and approaches to work. These differences are influencing organizational culture and impacting performance. Businesses can leverage unifying commonalities across generations to engage employees and achieve new efficiencies. Join Brett Knowles and Liz West as they discuss employee outlooks, expectations and motivations across generations.

Leaders who assume that employees will automatically be as invested in a new initiative may be setting themselves up for disappointment. Join Brett Knowles and Liz West as they discuss how to deliberately involve groups of stakeholder and entire organizations in contributing to strategy each and every day.

Research (and experience) tells us that over 80% of strategies fail. This high failure rate is not necessarily due to judgement errors or miscalculations – the culprit may be improper execution. Is what your employees are doing on a day-to-day basis well-aligned with your company’s broader strategy? Join Brett Knowles and Liz West as they discuss how to take initiatives from high-level strategy to action.

Organizational change is often met with tension and resistance. In many cases, however, the added turmoil is not caused by the change itself, but rather, by failure on the part of leadership to motivate and properly onboard employees to new processes. Join Brett Knowles and Liz West as they discuss the core tenants of change and what leaders can do to help their employees embrace and quickly adapt to change.

Harassment in the workplace, whether of a sexual nature or otherwise, has been in the headlines recently. A company’s response to complaints of harassment may be scrutinized by victims, their counsel and in some cases, the media. Join Liz West and Chris Mathers as they explore what constitutes harassment and how to best address specific instances.