Challenge Factory’s Blog
What we’re thinking.
‘Retain and Gain’ for public sector leaders: Integrating DEI into career management
How can workplace leaders and frontline managers use a DEI lens in their career management with employees?
We’ll take our shot, and welcome everyone onto Team #GenXZeneca
The pandemic has presented new generational stories on almost a daily basis.
Bold hunger, quiet struggle: The power of reflecting on career mindsets
Challenge Factory has asked hundreds of Canadians about their career mindset. Here’s what we found.
Accelerated or forever changed: COVID-19 and the Future of Work equation
How will your organization rebalance its Future of Work equation?
Headlines and data: Employment is in crisis for Black and Latina women across the USA
For many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic changed our relationship to data and how it’s reported. We have to make sure this reporting doesn’t negatively impact our relationships to each other.
Spiral up
Spiraling down is easy. Falling is passive. I know it feels satisfying to bond over all that isn’t good or right in the world right now. But let’s try not to fall too far.
How students and schools can thrive in Ontario’s performance-based funding model
Using the Guiding Principles of Career Development, let’s take a look at Ontario’s new performance-based funding model for public colleges and universities through a careers lens.
Noticing circles are a powerful coping mechanism
This workplace culture tool will help you foster connections in your organization.
Challenges @ work: What will our ‘big rethink’ moment create?
We need to create a new and better normal, rather than returning to the familiar of the ‘before times’.
Challenges @ work: The future is not a puzzle to solve
The future is not a puzzle to solve. There is no picture on the box to use as a guide. So how do we change our thinking?
Challenges @ work: Technology, real estate, or humanity?
Technology and real estate have important parts to play in shaping the Future of Work—but our discussions, questions, and experiments need to start with humans, and return to humans.
Joint letter to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce about getting Canadians back to work
Read the joint letter we published with the Canadian Career Development Foundation and CERIC.