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All employers want a healthy and safe workplace. Safety at work can be negatively impacted by many factors, one of which is the lack of understanding about the OHS Act.  The OHS Act applies to employers with 20 or more employees in New Brunswick.

In a strong safety culture, everyone feels responsible for safety, and they live it daily. Employees feel comfortable bringing up safety concerns with their employer. Effective safety leaders drive culture, which in turn, drives behaviours and sustains the change over a longer period.

Ensuring a safe workplace is an on-going responsibility for Business Leaders, HR Professionals, Supervisors and Employees. Today’s session will provide the link between the role of HR Professionals, the regulations, leadership, culture, engagement and a safe workplace.

Learning Objectives

Join us for this workshop with a WorkSafeNB Education Consultant who will prepare us as HR Professionals to address the critical issues within the workplace health & safety regulation framework:

• Roles & Responsibility of Employers & Employees (including Orientation)

• Rights of Employees

• Health & Safety program and it’s components

• The JHSC and their role

• Safety Culture - leadership and due diligence

“In a recent poll of HR leaders, 65% said their biggest challenges were related to people issues, and yet, only 8% of the respondents felt they really had the training to deal with these pressing problems.”

Workplace transformation is not about legal issues, job descriptions, payroll, or process evaluations…it’s about people.  Emotional intelligence competencies can lead to a deep awareness of how you collaborate with and motivate others; how you build rapport and trust, and most importantly, how you exert interpersonal authority. It is the ability to influence that will create the lasting workplace impact that every HR professional dreams about.

The emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) should be understood by every HR Department.  EQ has proven to save time and money while increasing the growth rate and efficiency of an organization.

Participants in this workshop will learn to utilize emotional intelligence more effectively, resulting in an increased ability to engage with others and expand their influence. Key elements of this highly interactive workshop and presentation include:

• What is Emotional Intelligence?
• Why does it matter?
• How do you know if you have it (or, if you don’t)
• How to develop it

Kathy promises that participants will walk away with a personal goal for further developing at least one important element of their own EQ. Her workshop is fast-paced and causes reflection on the part of recipients.

For those tasked with investigating complaints in the workplace, this half day session is aimed at equipping Managers and HR professionals with practical tips to gather, evaluate and report the findings of crucial workplace investigations.

It’s an easy stereotype: the self-centred, social media-obsessed Millennial who rejects the idea of climbing a corporate ladder.  But it’s not really a fair picture and it’s certainly not a helpful one. 

There is only one certainty about the future – those of us still above the grass get a year older every year.  So it’s 100% certain that the Boomers will soon leave the workplace and Millennials WILL be our leaders.

In this presentation, George Raine will discuss practical steps that HR professionals can take to prepare their organizations to exploit the many strengths of Millennials and support their succession into senior roles.

Looking to grow, build or readjust your department or business? Need to attract qualified applicants when there is an industry shortage?  Looking to develop your skills in recruitment and make this your best year ever? Would you like to reduce turnover?

It is not a secret that poor recruitment can make or break a workplace culture and can be a very costly mistake!  Attracting, hiring and retaining the right people for your organization can be a challenge at any time.

Join industry leader Michelle Alcorn for this invigorating and informative half-day session that will reinforce your knowledge of industry trends and the impact of strong recruitment practices, explain how you can improve rates of attraction and recruitment, as well as clarify how you can foster a desired place to work resulting in a more productive, healthy and happy staff. People make the difference!!

This session will provide attendees with an introduction to the concept of developing one’s cultural competencies.  Throughout the presentation you will discover insights about working with and hiring individuals within our culturally diverse community, and address challenges you may be experiencing at work with regards to culture, religion, immigration and ethnic diversity.  

Please note:

Our presenter is looking for your input to personalize the session for you. Please send your feedback on one or both of the below questions to admin@cphrnb.ca 

 (Please put  "Fredericton Event Feedback" in the subject title

1. What do you expect to learn from this workshop?

2. Are there any challenges you have/are experiencing in your work related to culture, religion, immigration, ethnic diversity etc.?

This notice is to inform the members of CPHR New Brunswick that the Annual General Meeting of CPHRNB Fredericton Chapter is scheduled for November 29, 2018 at the Delta Fredericton.  The meeting will take place at 8:00am prior to our monthly professional development session featuring Cox & Palmer, Legal Trends in Human Resources.

Various reports will be given, including Financial, PD Events, Mentorship program, Students, CHRP and Marketing updates.

As a call for nominations will be made for various Executive roles, your presence is requested for voting.

This session will cover topics such as the #Metoo movement, the legalization of cannabis, upcoming changes to the OHS Regulations, and will provide attendees with relevant and recent case law. Jessica will review several cases that have arisen over the past year here in New Brunswick (as well as in other Provinces) providing advice, tips and take-aways you, as HR Professionals, can implement in your workplace.   

Please join us for a high intensity half day session that will cover legal trends in some of the most challenging areas facing HR professionals today. 

We encourage you to bring your business leaders along. For those of you in unionized environments, why not invite your union leadership!