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Team building & career development in organizations | SWIFT framework

Why are team-building and career development critical for creating engaged, high-performing workplaces? How do trusting relationships between employees lead to stronger collaboration, better productivity, and lasting success for organizations? Heidi Heung and Mark Franklin and Rich Feller lead and coordinate the teams at OneLifeTools and CareerCycles. Our teams of career professionals have helped thousands of employees navigate [...]

August 27th, 2025|Tags: author, career development, team building|0 Comments

The One About Careers: Careers & Parenting

Thrilled to have Devon Turcotte, and Sarah-Jane VandenBerg join us to talk about careers, parenting and their podcast, The One About Careers. Listen & join Hoda and her guests on Career Buzz to increase your Career Literacy. Guest Bios Sarah-Jane VandenBerg is a Career Coach, Author and Speaker. She is a Certified Career Development Practitioner and a Holistic Narrative Career Professional [...]

July 2nd, 2025|Tags: author, parenting, podcast|0 Comments

“A new story that works changes everything”: Angus Fletcher on Career Buzz

Is it true that children are more creative than computer AI? How can we use literature, art, and stories to increase innovation, resilience, and joy in the era of AI? These are the research questions of Career Buzz guest, Angus Fletcher. We had an inspiring conversation covering Angus’s own career and education story from studying life [...]

June 25th, 2025|Tags: AI, author, literature, resilience|0 Comments

Design Your Retirement Lifestyle

If someone lives to live to age 90, which is now true for over half of Canadians, and they retire at 60, that’s a 30 year, post-work life. At age 60, they have half their life more to live. So, what’s next for them? How will they find purpose and meaning across 30 more years? [...]

February 12th, 2025|Tags: author, public speaker, retirement|0 Comments

Are you a feisty, creative person?

As storyteller-in-chief at CodeWord Communications for 20+ years and a part-time writing professor, Suzanne Bowness has built a successful freelance writing business.Now, she’s written, “The Feisty Freelancer: A friendly guide to visioning, planning and growing your writing business,” published by Dundurn Press in 2025. It helps readers get started on the writing journey. Tune into this Career Buzz episode to [...]

January 1st, 2025|Tags: author, business, freelance, writer|0 Comments

Supercharged Productivity: Overworked. Overwhelmed. Over it.

Martina Rowley has organization and precision in her blood. Having been raised, educated and trained in Germany, her work ethic and style reflect her heritage. After a 20-year career as an executive assistant, Martina completed a business training program and then started her own business as a virtual business manager (VBM) and Certified Canadian Virtual Assistant (CCVA). In her new book, “Supercharged Productivity: Overworked. [...]

December 11th, 2024|Tags: author, executive assistant, productivity, virtual assistant, writer|0 Comments

Being alive, and what we learn from death, with author Ray Robertson

During the pandemic, health officials and politicians can help us stay alive, but we need writers and philosophers to help us live. Ray Robertson’s newest book, How to Die: A Book About Being Alive makes the argument that we can't be truly fulfilled until we think about and reckon with death. When his first novel, [...]

September 7th, 2020|Tags: author, book, books, death, fine arts, fulfill, fulfilled, fulfillment, how to live, life, life lesson, life lessons, live, meaningfulness, novel, novelist, pandemic, reading, staying alive, writer, writing|0 Comments

Career Crafting with Cathy Campbell and Olympic Gold Medalist Misty Hyman

Based on a study of the experiences of young people in the decade after graduating from high school, Career Crafting is a book that offers an insightful portrait of the early career journeys of young adults. Hear author Cathy Campbell dispel the "Career Myth" that those in their late teens and 20s should follow [...]

August 10th, 2015|Tags: athletes, author, career centres, development, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, health, intentional exploration, olympics, public speaking, sports, university, wellness, young adults|0 Comments

At the Crossroads of Human Resources and Recruiting

Tim Baker, CHRL, Independent HR Consultant at Tim Baker HR and Editor of Learning at The HR Gazette Shanna Landolt, President of The Landolt Group, Recruitment and Executive Search Firm, Editor of Recruitment Strategy at The HR Gazette, and Author of "Secrets of a HeadHunter" Bill Banham, Publisher of The HR Gazette https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/careerbuzz-2014-10-29.mp3 Click [...]

October 29th, 2014|Tags: author, consultancy, consultant, Consulting, editor, head hunter, HR, human resources, news, newspaper, publisher, recruitment, recruitment officer, search firm, writer|0 Comments

Myths of Happiness with Sonja Lyubomirsky

Hear Positive Psychology experts Sonja Lyubomirsky on myths of happiness, and Bob Vallerand on harmonious passion. "I can't be happy until I get that better job." "I’ll be happy when I’m rich." Author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky busts myths based on her 20 years of research. What's [...]

August 14th, 2014|Tags: author, cognitive psychology, CPPA, happiness, motivation, passion, positive psychology, psychologist, pursuit of happiness, research, wellness|0 Comments