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#412 – WHY I BECAME A CAREER COACH AND MENTOR – BILL POMFRET

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For several years, I have been a career coach and mentor because after twenty years working in occupational health & safety, I had some questions:

1)    Why does every resume look the same? I am doing more.

2)    Why are executives reluctant to learn about health & safety, over the years I have been shocked that potential executives, possible candidates to use my coaching and mentorship skills, many display such stiff, robotic language in their branding (“Results-oriented professional with a bottom-line orientation,” for instance.) This language hurts them! It sucks all their personality out of their resume. Continue reading →

#401 – RISKS ARE NOT NECESSARILY HOW THEY ARE PERCEIVED – BILL POMFRET

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True risks are often different than perceived risks. Due to human curiosity, the desire to sell news, 24-hour-a-day news blitz, and current trends, some folks have a distorted sense of risks. Most often, people fear the lesser or trivial risks and fail to respect the significant dangers faced every day. Continue reading →

#341 – IF YOU FAIL TO PREPARE – PREPARE TO FAIL – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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While 2021 is already seven months old, Dr. Bill Pomfret asks the question: “has your organisation taken the time to look back on 2020 and re-evaluate how prepared it was to support its employees and customers”, while continuing to deliver critical services and products during the turbulent times that the COVID-19 pandemic brought on?

2020 was a tough year, to say the least. It certainly was the year where many organisations were forced to throw out their “business as usual” risk management playbooks to simply survive in a weakened economy. Many business leaders were forced to reflect just how effective and adaptable their organisation was when it came to their technology, innovation, acclimation to the changing workforce needs and a disruptive supply chain when disaster struck.  Continue reading →

#302 – MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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  • Every day over 500,000 Canadians are off work due to mental health
  • Every Day 200 Canadians attempt suicide
  • My clients report that about a quarter of disability claims are related to mental health
  • Mental illnesses cost Canada about $51.7 billion in 2015, 452,000 more Canadians would be participating in the labour force in 2016 if they were not affected by mental illness.
  • These estimates of the economic impact do not include the costs of patient care, insurance for employers, services in communities, and the many intangible costs for the individuals affected and their families, too many people suffer in silence with mental health issues.
  • One in five employees will experience a mental health issue during their working life.    One in four people will experience a mental health condition in any one year and depression and anxiety affect 20 per cent of the Canadian working population.

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