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How to Stop Drowning in Data By Deborah Aarts |  Mar 26, 2024 Renowned pollster Nik Nanos shares how business leaders can draw insight out of information Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queen’s Nik Nanos cares what people think. In fact, he’s built his whole career on it. Nanos is the founder and chief data…

Nominees announced for the Kingston Business Awards 2024 The nominees have been announced for the Kingston Business Awards 2024, presented by title sponsor MNP LLP, partner sponsor Bell and organized by the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce. Across the ten award categories, there are 49 nominees, including: Hospitality, presented by Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Ltd.: Frontenac…

Five Ideas to Improve Gender Equity Today By Deborah Aarts | Mar 5, 2024 A panel of experts shares how to make your workplace better for women and non-binary people — right now Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queen’s Here’s the good news: Almost everyone with a successful career in business today gets the value of gender diversity…

Glacial progress means women in business unlikely to achieve full equity this century. Report from Canadian Chamber of Commerce highlights the persistent barriers for women in management, leadership, and entrepreneurship. [OTTAWA] — [March 5, 2024] — The Canadian Chamber of Commerce released a new report Tuesday, showing that while Canada has made some positive strides…

Updates from the Commissioner for Employers New report from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council projects job vacancies will surpass 100,000 by 2030 At a time when Canadian agriculture continues to struggle with a chronic worker shortage, new data from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) has found that by the year 2030, there…

Top 5 Social Media Trends for 2024 Social media is a great channel for communication and relationships between businesses and their customers. To do a good job, you need to be connected to the trends in this universe and develop work that represents your company to your customers. Here we highlight 5 trends for social…

Why Do Leaders Make the Wrong Decisions? By Nick Chater | Jan 25, 2024 Three simple brain biases can help us understand what’s behind so many errors in judgment Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queens The human brain is an incredibly sophisticated biological system for continuously processing new information and determining what to do. But while it…

How to Have a (More) Productive Day By Rebecca Harris | Jan 3, 2024 Endless interruptions, a lack of focus time and all those emails keep us from getting stuff done at work Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queens While working in management consulting, Ann Gomez noticed some people who handled heavy workloads and had great personal lives.…

A message from Daniel Tisch, President and CEO – Ontario Chamber of Commerce Continued Advocacy and Support for Small Businesses Post-CEBA Deadline Dear OCC Members, I am writing to you today with deep concern after hearing from members about small businesses that missed the final Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) deadline. As President and CEO,…

More than 18,000 employees of Kingston businesses will now be able to benefit from a lower cost Kingston Transit Pass The Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce a new partnership with Kingston Transit in which it will offer all members and their 18,000 employees’ access to the Employer Transpass Program. The Chamber…