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Can the Church use AI to steward innovation?
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Can the Church use AI to steward innovation?
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July 1, 2025
I have been contemplating this question for weeks, but never really asked it out loud until now. “Could something like AI actually serve the Church?” ...
Use AI tools to make your hustle easier
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Use AI tools to make your hustle easier
Webmaster 
June 24, 2025
Imagine being up late at night, reading through an inbox flooded with client emails, proposal edits, and calendar invites. Your brain buzzed, your spi...
Revolutionise Your Operations Using AI Tools
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Revolutionise Your Operations Using AI Tools
Webmaster 
June 17, 2025
Just a few months ago, I had no idea what AI could do. I did not think that it was something I needed to concern myself with. After all, I never consi...
Post-pandemic Leadership Lessons
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Post-pandemic Leadership Lessons
Webmaster 
June 3, 2025
Not every lesson from the pandemic stuck. While many organisations around the world have evolved to embrace hybrid work, here in the Caribbean, some c...
Finding Balance in Leadership
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Finding Balance in Leadership
Webmaster 
May 27, 2025
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with countless leaders. Some came into the role with great vision and energy, others were seasoned...
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Empathy and Fairness in Leadership
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May 13, 2025
YOU KNOW,THE workplace keeps changing, but too many leaders are still stuck in old ways of managing, clinging to control and treating people like cogs...
Providing leadership in the face of change
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Providing leadership in the face of change
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May 6, 2025
Change is no longer a detour, it is the highway. Whether it is an unforeseen economic shake-up, the relentless surge of AI, or a global crisis that re...
Handling setbacks
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Handling setbacks
Webmaster 
April 8, 2025
There isn’t anyone who has navigated the professional world without setbacks. Setbacks can be as daunting as they are inevitable. Careers are rarely l...
Navigating your way through forced resignation
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Navigating your way through forced resignation
Webmaster 
March 25, 2025
Being forced to resign from a position, especially after years of service can be a distressing and frustrating experience, particularly if you later r...
Dealing with Forced Resignation
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Dealing with Forced Resignation
Webmaster 
March 18, 2025
In today’s competitive job market, employees sometimes face undue pressure from employers to resign. Whether due to workplace politics, cost-cutting m...
Intimate Manager/Employee relationships on the Workforce
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Intimate Manager/Employee relationships on the Workforce
Webmaster 
March 4, 2025
In any work environment, professional relationships are critical in fostering a productive and positive environment. However, when personal relationsh...
Creating a culture that promotes honesty, trust
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Creating a culture that promotes honesty, trust
Webmaster 
February 25, 2025
“Imagine Mr. Jones and Mrs. John had a quarrel at work that escalated into a scuffle. Both Mr. Jones and Mrs. John are senior to me. The incident happ...
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Avoid pitfalls by making the right hiring and promotion decisions
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February 18, 2025
Hiring and promotion decisions are among the most critical choices an organization makes. Selecting the right individuals for key roles impacts produc...
What’s your Workplace Culture?
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What’s your Workplace Culture?
Webmaster 
February 11, 2025
In today’s work world, there is one thing that stays true, top performers do not leave their jobs; they leave behind cultures that no longer appreciat...
Bouncing back after being knocked down
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Bouncing back after being knocked down
Webmaster 
February 4, 2025
Life is unpredictable, and sometimes, it throws unexpected challenges our way that can leave us disoriented and defeated. Whether it is a sudden job l...
Don’t underestimate the place empathy holds in your Organisation
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Don’t underestimate the place empathy holds in your Organisation
Webmaster 
January 28, 2025
In an increasingly interconnected world, where markets are saturated and competition is fierce, businesses must leverage every tool at their disposal ...
How about showing a little respect and kindness?
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How about showing a little respect and kindness?
Webmaster 
January 21, 2025
IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED WORLD, it can be easy to forget the simple yet profound impact of kindness. Frontline workers, the individuals we encounter dail...
Unethical behaviours – you the follower are responsible too
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Unethical behaviours – you the follower are responsible too
Webmaster 
January 14, 2025
It is inconceivable the volume of sentiments that susceptible followers share about the unethical things that they are instructed to do by leaders. Ma...
Do not be caught off guard
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Do not be caught off guard
Webmaster 
January 7, 2025
As you stand at the crease of 2025, one thing is absolutely certain, no one knows what the future holds and even the person with the most thought out ...
The power of gratitude
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The power of gratitude
Webmaster 
December 24, 2024
Saying ‘thank you’ has the potential to be a company’s most profitable tool. Have yourself a merry Christmas. As we wind down on 2024, I pause to say ...
Business and Professional Ethics (cont’d)
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Business and Professional Ethics (cont’d)
Webmaster 
December 10, 2024
I once had a colleague whose watch words were “Work by order, get pay straight.” He was someone with influence in the organisation who I bounced my th...
Business and professional ethics
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Business and professional ethics
Webmaster 
December 3, 2024
Every organization should have a set of moral principles, values and standards of conduct to guide its operations. These principles are referred to as...
The Wages Regulations 2024 (Industrial Workers Order)
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The Wages Regulations 2024 (Industrial Workers Order)
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November 26, 2024
Every organisation must have a system of rules, practices and processes which direct and control its operations. This is referred to as corporate gove...
The Wages Regulations (Rights of Security  Officers/Guards)
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The Wages Regulations (Rights of Security Officers/Guards)
Webmaster 
November 19, 2024
Security Officers/Guards (male or female) have the same rights and privileges under the Wages Regulation (Security Officers/Guards) Order 2024 as othe...
The Wages Regulations: Vacation and Sick Leave
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The Wages Regulations: Vacation and Sick Leave
Webmaster 
November 12, 2024
Welcome back to our series on the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Protection of Employment Act, 2003, and the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Statut...
Examining our Wages Regulations
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Examining our Wages Regulations
Webmaster 
November 5, 2024
Over the past few weeks we were looking at the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Protection of Employment Act, 2003. Today we shift to the Wages Regula...
The Protection of Employment Act (cont’d- Prohibitions against Termination)
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The Protection of Employment Act (cont’d- Prohibitions against Termination)
Webmaster 
October 15, 2024
“Don’t expect to have a job waiting for you if you go complaining to the Labour Department.” I am still dreaming of the day when all employers will tr...
Examining the Protection of Employment Act (cont’d)-termination notice and summary termination
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Examining the Protection of Employment Act (cont’d)-termination notice and summary termination
Webmaster 
October 8, 2024
“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.” Theodore Roosevelt. Long ago there we...
Examining the Protection of  Employment Act (cont’d)-Termination
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Examining the Protection of Employment Act (cont’d)-Termination
Webmaster 
October 1, 2024
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” – Immanuel Kant. Welcome back to...
Examining the Protection of Employment Act (cont’d)
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Examining the Protection of Employment Act (cont’d)
Webmaster 
September 24, 2024
No man is above the law, and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. - President Theodore Roosevelt. We...
Examining the Protection  of Employment Act (cont’d)
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Examining the Protection of Employment Act (cont’d)
Webmaster 
September 17, 2024
This quote by Plato got a smirk out of me “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the l...
Examining The Protection of Employment Legislation
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Examining The Protection of Employment Legislation
Webmaster 
September 10, 2024
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.” – Thomas Jeffers...
Transformational Leadership
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Transformational Leadership
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September 3, 2024
Last week, we established that, transformational leaders have the ability to inspire positive changes in individuals and organizations. That Transform...
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Manager interactions and employee engagement
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August 27, 2024
A MANAGER ONCE said to me, I know what ‘they’ want for them to perform better and be engaged. They want more money and I don’t have more money to give...
Leader engagement and employee output
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Leader engagement and employee output
Webmaster 
August 20, 2024
SOMETIME around the 1980s, scholars began exploring the emotional and symbolic aspects of leadership. Studies sought to understand how followers (empl...
Approaches to leadership
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Approaches to leadership
Webmaster 
August 13, 2024
THERE ARETHREE TYPES of approaches by which leadership could be examined – One-Dimensional: Approaches that focus on traits and characteristics that m...
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The health of the employer/employee relationship
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August 6, 2024
WHEN CONSIDERING what a healthy relationship looks like, there are several characteristics that come to mind. The presence of effective communication,...
Employee theft
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Employee theft
Webmaster 
July 23, 2024
IMAGINE YOU have a breadfruit tree that gives you shade and every day a neighbour passes by and gives the tree one chop with his cutlass. Every day yo...
Are dysfunctional workers ruining the culture of your organization?
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Are dysfunctional workers ruining the culture of your organization?
Webmaster 
July 16, 2024
WHILE THERE IS no perfect organisation, there are some organisations that are more tolerant of dysfunctional employees than others. There are several ...
Recognize the importance of your employees
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Recognize the importance of your employees
Webmaster 
June 25, 2024
Priming the pump is about putting something in to get something out. There is no escaping investing in employees if managers want to enjoy greater pro...
Be savvy about work place politics
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Be savvy about work place politics
Webmaster 
June 18, 2024
Recently, someone asked my advice on how to deal with an issue in their organization. It involved a supervisor who, under the guise of ‘concern for he...
When your biggest asset is also your biggest risk
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When your biggest asset is also your biggest risk
Webmaster 
June 11, 2024
We have all heard the saying ‘Employees are the most valuable asset to an organisation.” Anne M. Mulcahy is quoted as saying “Employees are a company’...
Using your enemies may be better for organisational performance
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Using your enemies may be better for organisational performance
Webmaster 
June 4, 2024
What a difference it will make in the world if we learn to utilise the skills and expertise of former enemies instead of entrusting positions and resp...
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Police need assistance identifying John Doe with ‘Family’, ‘Stay Alive’ tattoos
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Police need assistance identifying John Doe with ‘Family’, ‘Stay Alive’ tattoos
Christina 
July 1, 2025
The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a deceased male (John Doe) who was found in...
PM hails the fruits of the ‘Education Revolution’
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PM hails the fruits of the ‘Education Revolution’
Forrest 
July 1, 2025
The education revolution introduced by the Ralph Gonsalves-led administration following the win of his Unity Labour Party (ULP), in the 2001 general e...
Beryl Memorial today in Southern Grenadines
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Beryl Memorial today in Southern Grenadines
Forrest 
July 1, 2025
One year ago today, on July 1, 2024, Hurricane Beryl, a category five hurricane, struck St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and nearby islands, leavin...
Word to Graduating Math Teachers: Roll up your sleeves and Get to work
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Word to Graduating Math Teachers: Roll up your sleeves and Get to work
Forrest 
July 1, 2025
Educators in St Vincent and the Grenadines are being urged to do away with the approach of having students just blindly follow instructions in the tea...
CPEA performances inspiring, says Education Minister
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CPEA performances inspiring, says Education Minister
Forrest 
July 1, 2025
Minister of Education, Curtis King, said the results of this year’s Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA)examination are inspirational. He told the...

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