Calendar of Events

Description: We have seen significant changes to the Canadian immigration system including a much stronger enforcement system for ensuring employer compliance. This webinar will look at important changes while highlighting opportunities and how employers can mitigate the risks.

We will cover the full spectrum of an immigration file including:

• Various types of Work permits

• Compliance Reviews

• Considerations for permanent residence

Who should attend:

• Human Resource Managers and Staff or anyone engaged in the recruitment and hiring of foreign workers.

In this webinar you will learn about social procurement and why businesses should consider it as part of their purchasing strategies.  Stephanie Pronk will share information on tools, resources and an online community available to businesses through the Social Enterprise Institute online learning platform.  David Lepage, of Buy Social Canada, will take a closer look at what social procurement is, how to influence its growth in your sector and how to implement it in your organization. Don Palmer, Executive Director of Causeway Work Centre, will use a landscaping social enterprise as an example to demonstrate how businesses can support social enterprises as part of their purchasing strategies.

Reference checks, social media searches, and criminal records, oh my! There are a number of potential tools for employers to use when determining whether to hire a candidate or not. In this session, learn how to use these tools more effectively to hire the best talent and avoid liabilities.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• The privacy law implications of different types of background checks, including reference checks, social media checks, criminal record checks, credit checks and more

How human rights concerns can arise in these types of background checks. 

Who should attend: All levels welcome.

As of 2017, the Baby Boomer exodus from the workforce kicked into full gear and it’s only going to get worse over the next 10 years. But in spite of company’s efforts to implement succession plans, most don’t work. Find out why most succession plans fail and how to ensure your success.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Why most succession plans fail and the culture required to sustain succession planning.
• Why HR’s obsession with "tools" is preventing real progress.
• The best, most underutilized, method for identifying leadership potential.
• The key to developing leaders (it’s not what you think!)

Who should attend: Senior HR and business leaders

Amazon. Pixar. CBS. Warner Bros. No company is immune to issues of workplace harassment and all employers are responsible for ensuring a safe and respectful workplace for workers. The failure to meet this responsibility carries with it significant consequences.

This workshop will provide you with an overview on how to manage workplace harassment and help minimize your liabilities in a way that meets your responsibilities.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• What constitutes workplace harassment, including sexual harassment;
• What responsibilities employers must meet to prevent and to address incidents of harassment at work;
• How to distinguish between workplace harassment and the legitimate exercise of management authority;
• What liabilities to expect for employers who fail to meet their responsibilities.

Who should attend:  All practitioners welcome.

Paul Godin, of Katalyst Resolutions, identifies why workplace conversations and situations are challenging. Understanding the primary contributors to conflict is the key to then optimizing approaches to such difficult situations. The Katalyst Conflict Response Model will guide and inform your responses to difficult people and challenging issues. Real world workplace examples and chances to apply the principles will be incorporated. Learn how to deliver difficult messages more effectively. Based in Victoria, Paul Godin is one of the world’s leading dispute resolution trainers and mediators.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• To understand and recognize the primary contributors to conflict that recur again and again.

• To use a model for analyzing and responding effectively to difficult people and situations.

• To prepare quickly and effectively for difficult conversations

• To deliver hard messages.

Who should attend:

• Any HR Professional.

Everyone has the right to equal treatment in employment and cannot be discriminated against on the basis of actual or perceived disability. Accommodation is a way of helping employees work more effectively by overcoming limitations caused by disabilities, including mental illness.

Changes in labour law, occupational health and safety, employment standards, workers compensation, and human rights decisions are all pointing in the need for employers to provide a psychologically safe workplace. Join us on Wednesday, February 28th at noon ET as our guest speakers unpack these developments and share what employers need to know and do to support their employees in realizing their potential and contributing to their workplace and broader community.

Business professionals have described grants as a 'pie in the sky'; they know they exist, but they can’t seem to access them. Some have heard of grants or have even applied for one or two in the past, but the process can be challenging, confusing, and time-consuming. Many grants are relate to HR activities and can support hiring, training and market expansion needs. This presentation outlines best practices when preparing for upcoming grants and developing an effective grant strategy for your business. It also covers ongoing grant programs that are currently accepting applications to impact your company today.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Types of grants available to businesses
• How to be successful in when applying for grants
• How does building a grant strategy impact your bottom line
• Which grants align with your HR role?
• Which grants are available now?

Who should attend:

• HR managers and decision makers who make hiring and training decisions. Companies in growth mode. Businesses that are invest in skill development for their staff. HR professionals who are too busy to deal with navigating through the complicated world of grants and want the benefit without having to do too much work.

An Introduction to Concepts of Gender Identity and Best Practices to Support an Employee Transitioning Their Gender in the Workplace

We are currently witnessing the increase of awareness about transgender issues in what Time Magazine (June 2014) has dubbed the "next civil rights frontier." In 2016, the Trudeau administration has introduced Bill C-16 to provide transgender people with full rights and protections in the Canadian Charter of Rights. As the political, social, and legal landscape improves, more transgender people feel comfortable to share their innermost truth regarding their gender identity within the workplace. Are you ready to support the transitioning employee as well as their co-workers and clients with this change?

Transition planning entails a systems approach to identifying and discussing a complex set of interrelated factors that require sequenced coordination to allow an employee, their co-workers, and possible clients to smoothly and to confidently transition their gender on the job. Through the use of transition guidelines you can work with the transgender employee to consider how to best engage co-workers and possible clients.

For many, transgender issues in the workplace are new territory. Concepts of gender identity may feel overwhelming. The presenters bring an open and friendly approach to provide a session that aims to be highly interactive and engaging. In particular, through evocative icebreakers we begin by situating attendees within their own experiences of gender identity to demystify, clarify, and reduce the trepidation and hesitation typically associated with this topic. Participants will be introduced to concepts of gender identity as well as the unique challenges and barriers faced by transgender employees. The session will also summarize broad themes of best practices and lessons learned from TransFocus’ work supporting companies and their transitioning employees.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand key terms, such as gender identity, transgender, gender variant and transition.
• How to respond and prepare for an employee approaching you with the intent to transition their gender in the workplace.

Identify keys areas where companies can ensure the workplace is inclusive to transgender employees and applicants.

Who should attend:

All HR Professionals

Description:

Have you been using LinkedIn to its full advantage to build your network and share your brand? If you’re looking for some practical hands-on advice to take your profile to the next level, join us in this interactive 60-minute lab where we’ll do a live "best practices" tour of the tool and show you how to optimize your profile.

Please have your LinkedIn profile open, and edit actively during the course of this webinar.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Setting and features
• What "all-star" status is and how to achieve it
• What LinkedIn is and how to use it
• How to promote your on-line professional brand
• How to leverage LinkedIn as a source of news and insights

Who should attend:

• Any beginner to intermediate LinkedIn user will benefit from this session.

Helping organizations change can be challenging work. Sometimes it is simply because change itself is hard. More often it is because most organizations aren’t very good at it. So when they are trying to change, they are rarely at their best.

If you are internal to the organization, you may think you already know what is going on. You do, to a point; but you don’t have as clear a picture as you need. If you are a external you have some assumptions about what is going on, but you know you need to learn more. Both perspectives benefit greatly by using a comprehensive framework to fully understand the situation in a changing organization.

This insightful webinar provides a deep insight into how you can help your organization change more effectively. The critically important skill you must master when helping organizations change is to objectively understand the situation. Bring your work home, take this webinar and learn how to shape the right perspective for your next move in your changing organization.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Explore 7 lenses of enquiry that provide a comprehensive understanding of any changing organization. They are:
    1) Overall System
    2) Change Model & Support
    3) Strategic Message
    4) Project Management Capability
    5) Communication
    6) Archetype
    7) Life Cycle
• Apply each of these lenses to your own organization and determine what gaps exist in your current understanding of the situation.
• Outline some next steps you can take to add more value in your changing organization.

Who should attend:

• If you currently are, or soon want to be, involved with helping organizations change, this program is for you. Internals and externals, HR / OD / T & D / L & D professionals are all encouraged to attend. Regardless if you are new to this work or have been involved for decades, you will find the information shared very useful.

Learn how to Bring Your Best Brand to Life!

You have complete control over the first impression you give. Make sure it's a good one. Tell your story on your terms through an online brand that recreates the in-person experience. Based on years of working with people and projects around the world in almost every industry, this webinar breaks down branding and promoting yourself online in actionable tips that will help you bring your best brand to life.

In this presentation, you will learn about the actionable tips to make your best brand come to life.

Who should attend: All levels of HR professionals are welcome

Description:
Onboarding is an emotional process for a new hire. How do you create the optimal emotional environment to ensure success? What ‘best practices’ are leading edge? Join David Cory, founder of The Emotional Intelligence Training Company Inc., as he discusses what HR professionals can do to support new employees, so organizations can see their ROI sooner.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• What is emotional intelligence and why is it critical to onboarding?
• What are all the ways emotions are involved in the onboarding process?
• How can an HR professional make the onboarding process more emotionally intelligent?

Participants will take away:

• A practical model of emotional intelligence they can use
• A list of all the ways emotions are involved in the onboarding process
• A step-wise approach they can use to make the onboarding process more emotionally intelligent

Who should attend:

• Any HR professional involved in onboarding will get additional ideas to improve their current onboarding process

Description:

Emerging technologies facilitate working from remote and de-centralized locations. Bring in subject matter expertise, provide training, and host team meetings without travel. Enhance productivity, strengthen engagement, and offer your team the flexibility they need to effectively integrate complex life roles and responsibilities. Join this webinar to explore how virtual technologies can also expand work opportunities, build strategic partnerships, and foster solid professional relationships with very limited "face time." Hear inspiring case examples and examine the joys/challenges of working virtually. Leave with practical tips for managing staff and projects in an increasingly interconnected virtual world.

In this presentation, you will:

• Understand how the benefits of providing flexible work scheduled/structures to staff can improve engagement, performance, and satisfaction
• Learn how technology can support working virtually within your organization
• Explore strategies for blending traditional face-to-face meetings and training sessions with web-based technologies

Who should attend:

• HR practitioners interested in embedding virtual technologies within their organization.

Technology: BYOD Policies, Departing Employees and Protecting your Confidential Information - Learn how to stay within the law and protect the rights of the company.

Employers are vulnerable to the whims of departing employees, particularly where they have not taken concrete steps in advance to clearly outline and plan for technology, confidentiality, security and privacy issues that arise when an employee leaves. This vulnerability increases the more senior, and long serving the departing employee is, especially if personal technology was used by the employee to fulfill job responsibilities.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• The importance of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policies where employees use personal technology for work
• The scope of an employee’s right to privacy at work
• Other policies and contractual terms to consider to secure your business and mitigate risk

Who should attend: All levels welcome.

This webinar will provide you with insights on practical and effective ways for mid-sized firms to get business benefits from an analytics-savvy HR function.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• A strategic framework to end the confusion around analytics
• How to organize your existing staff to do more analytics
• Clear case studies you can replicate in your own business
• Tips for avoiding the landmines that derail analytics

Who should attend:

• C-suite leaders in mid-sized or large companies which compete on the quality of their talent, as well as HR professionals who are directly tasked with delivering analytics.

As an HR Professional working in a dynamic environment, you engage with and support others through conflict on a regular basis. This webinar will assist you to improve your dispute resolution skills to address workplace conflicts with confidence and proficiency. An emphasis will be placed on furthering your understanding of Alternative Dispute Resolution and its relevance to Human Resources Management.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Develop and enhanced understanding of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR);
• Understand the importance of recognizing and addressing conflict in the workplace;
• Distinguish between positions and interests to optimize HR interventions;
• Understand the importance of developing trust for supportive relationships;
• Understand the benefits of completing the ADRIC National Mediation Course to enhance your ADR competencies.

Who should attend:

• Human Resources practitioners working in a generalist role or in a position where they are supporting managers and/or employees in workplace conflict.

When leaders learn the specific tools for building accountability, and positive energy in everything they do, the paradigm shift is profound; the results astounding. Employees in today’s job market want very different things from their working lives and corporate experiences. Creating The Accountability Culture and understanding the Science of Life Changing Leadership is at the core of this session. Yvonne shares the fundamentals of building an organization where there is no blaming, no deflection, where every leader, employee and contributor truly engage in responsible self- management and accountability; where full ownership of emotions, behaviors, performance and ultimate outcomes are simply part of the culture. The Full Accountability Model will be shared and explored with each participant.

In this presentation, you will:

• Have a clear understanding of the shift from Old Energy Organizational culture to a New Energy Organization.
• Will gain additional knowledge in the new sciences that inform positive psychology in the workplace and how it contributes to the Accountability Model.
• Will gain specific knowledge in the Accountability Model and how it is sequenced and taught in order to get the greatest shift in leaders approach
• Will understand the importance of the daily practices and will begin to consider how to implement in their unique environment
• Will receive a copy of The Accountability Model for future reference.

Who should attend:

• This session provides critical information for anyone who wants to facilitate high performance, great profitability, and low work-related healthcare costs. Human Resource leaders at all levels from small entrepreneurial business to large complex corporations will benefit as specific tools and techniques are described and shared to create a true culture of accountability and self-responsibility. Anyone wishing to enhance culture and shift towards a culture of personal responsibility and self-regulation should attend this session.

Modern HR departments need an adaptable and relevant toolkit of approaches to resolving conflicts. From front line negotiation to mediation to investigation to arbitration, there are more than a dozen other approaches that HR professionals need to have available. Learn about the multitude of approaches, and their advantages and disadvantages, so that you can make cost-effective and workplace-effective choices to manage and deal with any conflict that arises.

Paul Godin, the author of "A Practical Guide to Conflict Management System Design" will illustrate the factors relevant to your dispute resolution process choices, adding to your toolkit and honing your ability to choose the right tool for each conflict. Don't spend $15,000 on an investigation when peer coaching or mediation may be more effective and less costly.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Identify a wide range of HR conflict resolution tools.
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of the dispute resolution approaches available to you.
• Identify the value of rights-based approaches, and their challenges.
• Identify the value of interest-based approaches, and their challenges.
• Understand the preventative tools available to you to minimize the degree and frequency of conflicts

Who should attend:

• Any HR Professional.

• A brief discussion about 'why' bring mindfulness into the workplace
• The roles that HR can play in this initiative
• Approaches for getting started and self-sustaining long-term
• A roadmap for implementation
• Bonus topic: See results from The Calm Monkey’s latest ‘Dealing with Change meditation study’ to learn how mindfulness can be used to help people through difficult change.

• What is an A / B / C Goal? / Why a Game-Changer Goal?
• Utilize Conversations, Commitments, Choices to Goal-Achieve
• Resolve Habitual Stress: Shift your Time-Worry Habit
• The 6/12 month MasterPlan; Effective Monthly/Daily Goal-Achieve System
• Why Rewards Inspire Action and Results

Learn about ‘mindfulness-in-action’ and how Take 5 can positively contribute to a psychologically healthy and safe work environment by helping busy professionals be focused, engaged, and less stressed in the middle of whatever they’re doing.

Description: 

In October 2017, the #MeToo movement was born on social media to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. The movement went viral, with millions of women coming forward with their own stories of abuse. While allegations against high-profile celebrities such as Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. and Bill Cosby may dominate headlines, #MeToo has moved millions of women to collectively say "Time's Up".

The increased awareness of sexual assault and harassment is certainly something to celebrate, however it should also indicate to many employers that workplace practices also need to evolve with the times. This presentation will focus on the legal and practical implications of #MeToo. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Bullying and harassment in the workplace;
• Discrimination on the basis of gender;
• Constructive dismissal;
• Damages for non-compliance;
• Best practices in promoting a workplace a harassment free workplace

Who should attend:

• All levels are welcome.

We have all heard the hype about AI (Artificial Intelligence) and that is professes to do a great deal of work for HR teams. For those of you in the area of talent acquisition, what does this mean for your recruitment and how does it impact Applicant Tracking Systems. This session will provide an overview of what Artificial Intelligence is doing for recruitment and how it will impact your HR team in the years to come.

Talent professionals know the allure of the exceptional hire, whose impressive resume, career path or charisma seem to guarantee high performance. We’ve been told that the workforce contains a finite pool of these invaluable employees – but does it? What if you could look beyond standard recruiting assessments to identify more candidates with a high potential to transform your organization? 

Join Indeed Recruitment Evangelist Saeed Sadooghi for a new look at the traits, values and behaviours of exceptional employees who inspire teams and invigorate businesses. Learn how you can apply these insights to craft inbound recruiting strategies that will attract transformational talent. 

In this presentation, you will:

• Gain insight into the key attributes that transformational people have in common and the impact they can have on your business
• Develop key tactics that will help you identify top performers
• Learn how to use Indeed tools and data to develop inbound recruiting strategies

Recruiting via inbound channels has dramatically changed – and improved – how employers find, connect with and engage prospective candidates. And talent teams that do inbound recruiting well are continually optimizing their strategies to attract more of the right candidates faster. While every talent acquisition team approaches recruiting with the tactics that best suit their needs, the leading ones all leverage inbound recruiting practices. Learn how to develop captivating job content as the core of any inbound recruiting strategy, amplify your inbound traffic by using paid search tactics to reach more quality candidates, and use great storytelling to engage candidates.