Human Resources Q&A: Reducing conflict between staff and volunteers

Are you finding it difficult to create harmonious relationships between your staff and volunteers? Follow these tips to help everyone successfully work together.

Take this job – and love it

No matter how you approach it, starting a new job can be daunting. Learn from other nonprofit professionals how to make the most of your new role.

Human Resources Q&A: Why managers should encourage staff to take vacations

Why should managers care whether employees take their vacation time? Isn’t it up to the employee to make sure they taking the time they need?

The least wanted list

Law enforcement agencies have their most wanted lists. What job seekers want to avoid at all cost is being placed on a least wanted list. This article outlines five areas of behaviour that can put an individual at high risk of being considered least wanted.

How employee engagement can drive organizational change

The ability for employers to motivate, inspire and engage employees is fundamental to the success of any nonprofit — that much is obvious. But how nonprofit employers go about engaging employees to drive organizational change or achieve their mission is far less clear.

Career Q&A: How to work a room

Do you find yourself tongue-tied and shy at networking events? Our Career Q&A columnist Mitchell Stephenson shows you how to work a room like a star.

It’s time to take your time off

Studies show Canadians are not taking all of their vacation time – but there are risks of an all work and no play attitude. How can organizations work with staff to ensure everyone gets to enjoy their time off?

What’s going on in your office? Love, actually

With nearly 60% of Canadians report having dated someone they have met at work, CharityVillage® thought it would be interesting (and timely for mid-February) to explore how individuals and organizations navigate the intrigues and realities of workplace dating and ask: are office romances still taboo?

State of the union

Workers of the nonprofit sector, unite! That famous Marxist quote — altered slightly here for effect — could apply to the 21% of unionized employees in Canada’s nonprofit sector.

Human Resources Q&A: When it’s time to run for the hills

I’ve been hired for a new short-term job that doesn’t start for a couple of months. Since I verbally agreed to take the role, I have been receiving a flurry of emails, some of which ask me to create documents and do other work. Although I have been told that everything will be fine and will smooth out, I am getting concerned that all of this extra work is likely going to be a regular expectation once I officially start. What do I do?