“Pausing” the LearnOnline Blog
Our goal for the Life Strategies LearnOnline blog has been to share tips and strategies for fitting learning into already busy lives and to share some of the latest research and musings around lifelong...
Category: Learning Opportunities
To Friend or Not to Friend—How Do You Respond? Ethics, Social Media, and Your Clients/Students
Contributed by Diana Abath Diana Abath is a career employment and human services practitioner and community educator of 15 years from the United States. She is a Life Strategies’ instructor and has taught several...
CEUOneStop Webinars: Now Featuring Roberta & Deirdre
Roberta and Deirdre will be facilitating webinars for CEUOneStop on the topics of career assessment and diversity. Space is limited so register early to secure your spot – http://ceuonestop.com/wp/home/webinars Integrating Assessments into Career Conversations...
Counsellor, Coach, Consultant . . .?
We use a lot of different terms to describe what career practitioners do. When I first began working in the sector almost 40 years ago, my job title was “employment counsellor” – even though...
2015 . . . The Year to Finally Embrace the Chaos of “Career”
Many New Year’s resolutions focus on finding better or more satisfying work, improving work-life balance, or getting a raise or promotion. In seeking to fulfill these resolutions, people will set goals and create actions...
Ethics Schmethics: The Role of Ethics in the Professionalization of Vocational
As professionals, vocational rehabilitation practitioners require policies and procedures in the form of documents related to standards of care, practice guidelines, scope of practice and ethics standards statements. Adherence to an ethical code of...
Understanding Diverse Clients
By Nadia Serry Imagine if you have an important message that you are anxious to relay to a group of people who work with you on a vital project… Now imagine that none of...
MBTI Professional Development Conference
As the only North American conference devoted to the Myers-Briggs® assessment, the MBTI Professional Development conference brings together professionals from human resources, learning and development, consulting, education and counselling. This event is a great...
Success Tips for Working With Hard to Reach Clients
Clients are often reluctant to engage with social service providers for a variety of reasons such as fear of change, pessimism, addiction and mental health challenges, prior poor experiences, resentment at being forced to...
Moving Beyond Conflict: 3 Steps to Effectively Manage Difficult Conversations
When talks get tough and discussions derail, people often fall into conflict traps. Moving beyond conflict means taking control of the conversation to avoid these traps by implementing 3 critical components to help manage...
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