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What is High Agency? Why This Mindset Can Shape Your Career

Career growth is often associated with experience, technical knowledge, and professional skills. While these qualities are important, they are not ...
How To Conduct Engaging Online Workshops

How To Conduct Engaging Online Workshops

Communicating through the digital world has been a prevalent part of our society for some time now. Yet, with self-isolation, ...
How to Stay Busy at Home During Quarantine

Unique Ways to Stay Busy at Home

With social distancing and self-isolation becoming a normal part of our lives, do you find yourself struggling to pass the ...
talk to customers when you are shy

How To Talk To Customers When You’re Shy

Do you feel uncomfortable talking to other people, or in front of groups? Are you reserved at social gatherings or ...
TAG: Business Icons: Mary Barra

Business Icons: Mary Barra

Mary Barra is the CEO of General Motors and the first female to lead a global automaker. Her education and ...

How to Find Your Life’s Purpose

Do you know what your life’s purpose is? Many people don’t. Some go through life without one and do so ...
Marketing Skills Blog

The Top 3 Marketing Skills You Didn’t Know You Had

You’ve heard about marketing, right? It’s all anyone talks about these days. Advancements in technology and new platforms have expanded ...
Business Icons Mark Zuckerberg

Business Icons: Mark Zuckerberg

We’re fully in the Facebook age and Mark Zuckerberg is the one who got us here. Regarded as one of ...
Morning Routine Tips from Our Favourite Business Leaders

Morning Routine Tips from Our Favourite Business Leaders

Creating a regular morning routine can help you kickstart your day with direction and vision. Morning routines condition you to ...
How to Stand Out in an Interview

How to Stand Out in an Interview

Why being yourself will make you stand out in an interview The day has finally come – your job interview ...
The Importance of Self-Awareness in the Workplace

The Importance of Self-Awareness in the Workplace

In the business world, how often do you hear about the value of having self-awareness skills? Or the importance to ...
Business Icons: Shelly Zalis

Business Icons: Shelley Zalis

If there is one business icon that works to make the world a better place, that would be Shelley Zalis, ...
Business Icons: Howard Schultz

Business Icons: Howard Schultz

Business Icons: Howard Schultz Howard Schultz stands out, not just because of his success in business but because he has always ...
Top 10 Skills for Marketing Managers

Top 10 Skills for Marketing Managers

Looking to further your career path? Interested in marketing? At its most basic marketing is the promotion of a product, ...
Finding A Mentor

Finding A Mentor

You have a career path, maybe even a dream job, in mind but you’re not sure how to get there ...
Getting to know someone new

Making the Most of Your Week: Getting To Know Someone New

Co-workers am I right? They can be some of the best people you’ve ever met or the ones that make ...
Challenge yourself

Making the Most of Your Week: Challenge Yourself

We all know it can be hard to sometimes to really engage with your work and get the most and ...
Make a Plan

Making the Most of Your Week: Make a Plan

Monday mornings can come round too fast and before you know it you’re deep into another working week. Sometimes it’s not ...
Put it in your diary

Making the Most of Your Week: Put It In Your Diary

Planning. It’s all well and good until you can’t remember what you’ve got planned from one day to the next! ...
Try Something New

Making the Most of Your Week: Try Something New

It’s important to always look for exciting and dynamic things in life and work. It’s also important to remember that ...
Business Icons: Gwyneth Paltrow

Business Icons: Gwyneth Paltrow

Say Gwyneth Paltrow and so much comes to mind; movie star, Iron Man’s wife (kinda), consciously uncoupling – we all ...
Business Icons: Alan Sugar

Business Icons: Alan Sugar

Oh Lord Sugar, where do we start? Before The Apprentice, this British business mogul was already well established and incredibly ...
Business Icons: Arianna Huffington

Business Icons: Arianna Huffington

As her name may attest, Arianna Huffington was the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. She has ...
Business Icons: Bill Gates

Business Icons: Bill Gates

Tech genius Bill Gates just has to make our list of Business Icons for so many reasons. Author, investor, business ...
Business Icons: Richard Branson

Business Icons: Richard Branson

As business icons go, Richard Branson is up there with the best of them. His work ethic, business savvy and ...
5 Career Tips that You Should Ignore

5 Career Tips that You Should Ignore

We’ve all heard helpful career tips: prepare for an interview, be punctual, dress professionally, take notes, etc. However, not many of us ...
How Millennials are Positively Impacting the Workplace

How Millennials are Positively Impacting the Workplace

Millennials have been positively transforming the workplace for over a decade. They are the generation that seeks career growth and ...
Three Proven Team Communication Strategies

Three Proven Team Communication Strategies

When communication between team members is fluid, an organization thrives. Projects get completed on time, nothing gets overlooked, and people ...
How to Give and Take Constructive Feedback

How to Give and Take Constructive Feedback

When we think of feedback as something to be feared, we’re missing the point. Constructive feedback is a gift. It’s ...
Three Tips for Balancing your Family Life and your Career

Three Tips for Balancing your Family Life and your Career

You hear it all the time. As individuals, we are busier than we have ever been before. We live in ...
Five Strategies for Managing Multiple Projects at Once

Five Strategies for Managing Multiple Projects at Once

These days, we all wear multiple hats at work. Whether or not you’re a project manager or in a leadership ...
10 Tips for Personal Development

10 Tips for Personal Development

Self-awareness, confidence and building on your strengths — personal development can help you achieve all these things. But what is the ...
The Importance of Personal Development

The Importance of Personal Development

Personal development has become a bit of a buzzword in the professional world. Questions like “What do you do to encourage ...

Finding Your Style of Leadership

Leadership looks different on everybody. Some lead by quiet example while others are more hands on in their guidance. There ...
Three Tips to Help You Reach your Career Goals in 2019

Three Tips to Help You Reach your Career Goals in 2019

With the start of a new year, it’s natural to be thinking about the changes you want to make in ...
Mentorship

Ten Inspiring Quotes on Mentorship

Mentorship is many things. For some, it’s traditional. Someone senior takes someone junior under their wing. For others, it’s a little more unconventional. Learning ...
TAG Fun Holiday Team Building Activities

Fun Holiday Team Building Activities

At The Acquisition Group, we know that fostering happiness in the workplace is the key to great company culture, and one of our favourite ways ...
What Are the Elements of Great Company Culture

What Are the Elements of Great Company Culture

Have you ever had a job where you genuinely looked forward to going to work? Conversely, you’ve no doubt had a job ...
TAG Friday Productivity

How to Make Friday Your Most Productive Day of the Week

On Friday, the weekend looms and staying focused can be difficult. If you ask your average employee, he or she will probably ...
The Acquisition Group 5 Networking Tips

5 Networking Tips to Set You Up for Success

Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Whether you are connected to the internet or you connect face-to-face, the key is, ...
Excellence, then is not an act but a habit

5 Tips to Start Your Day Off Right

How you spend your morning sets the tone for your day. It’s a simple truth. The mornings when you make ...
Q&A with The Acquisition Group Founders

A Q&A with the Founders of The Acquisition Group

A wise man once said, “Be the change.” The founders of The Acquisition Group took those words to heart. In 2005, the pair ...
The Acquisition Group New Look

The Acquisition Group’s New Look

At The Acquisition Group, our mission is to make our mark on personal, professional and business growth. We set the bar high, holding ...