How to Not Look Silly as a Manager – The Chess Analogy

A great book I often refer to on how to be a strengths based manager is Now Discover your Strengths. The authors make a great analogy as to why using people's strengths in a team setting is so powerful and why treating[...]

Published: January 24, 2013
By: Darryl Stewart
What Are You Waiting For?

By Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd What are you waiting for? You want to work in a great workplace. You know that you have a huge part in making that happen. What’s holding you back? The latest episode of[...]

Published: January 16, 2013
By: Darryl Stewart
“I Just Need to Have My Butt in that Seat”

We like to keep things light at IBEX, so no one was surprised when our grumpy meeting (we call our managers "the grumpies") was opened by Terry with “anyone got any meat to hang?” Peregrin then jumped in with “anyone got[...]

Published: December 13, 2012
By: Darryl Stewart
A Slow Acting Motivational Miracle Medicine

By Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd I met a woman over a year ago who was not at all happy with her employer.  The situation seemed hopeless to me.  Trust was dead between her employer and herself.  She had[...]

Published: November 22, 2012
By: Darryl Stewart
The Reality of Motivating Employees

By Spencer Yarnell Head of Spreading the Herd Word Some days its difficult to care. Some days you just want to put in your hours and be done with it. It happens to everyone including employees. Usually these are the[...]

Published: October 24, 2012
By: Darryl Stewart

IBEX Payroll extends our profound respect and immeasurable gratitude to all the ancestors and keepers of the land on whose traditional territories our work takes place. We acknowledge that we are on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional gathering place of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene people and the traditional homeland of the Métis people. This land is sacred, historical, and significant. 

Every time we acknowledge this truth, we have an invitation and an opportunity to reflect on the wrongs of the past, what we do in the present, and what we can do to continually honour the people whose lands and water we benefit from today. 

This statement only acts as a first step in honouring the land we reside on and its peoples, and must be paired with education, understanding and informed action.