We believe that an effective and pro-active HR service is crucial to successful organizations. Collaborating for performance with the leaders of your organization with proven engagement tools allows you to show how HR can have an impact on the organizational results. The commitment, motivation and retention of employees have a major impact on performance/productivity in organizations. 

 We will share strategies with you through a free tool that has been shown to link to better productivity gains especially in the complex, creative and solution-based environment of today’s workforce.  It is based on helping employees develop and optimize their mental fitness, their resiliency, and by extension, their contribution to the workforce.

 Join us for an insightful presentation that will equip you with information that will assist you in your role of supporting and moving your organization forward as a Strategic Partner!

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!!

On Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019, CPHR New Brunswick Saint John chapter will be holding its annual general meeting from 8:00am to 8:30am in the Montagu Rooms in the Hilton's Trade and Convention Ctr. 

 The Executive will be reporting on the chapter activities and financials for 2018.

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A fast-paced review of the key labour and employment law decisions from the courts and tribunals over the past year. As an employer you need to be aware of the new developments in employment and labour law, regardless of your industry/sector or how many employees you have. Effective human resource strategies depend on it.

The Government of New Brunswick, Department of Post-Secondary Education Training and Labour will provide information on the various streams available to employers to help them successfully navigate and meet their human resource needs.  From creating employee training plans to developing recruitment strategies and implementing onboarding initiatives, you will:

 LEARN about the supports available to access potential employees from across New Brunswick, throughout In New Brunswick, multiple employment sectors continue to express their need for a strong, vibrant, and well-prepared work force.  Increasingly, this need is on the rise and results in the question “Where will these workers come from?”

 This 3-part conversational style presentation will highlight opportunities around meeting the challenges of the current New Brunswick workforce environment.  The focus will be on :

WHAT programs are there to help take advantage of these opportunities?

WHY and WHEN should economic immigration should be considered?

HOW local organizations can provide support, information, and more?

Canada, and around the world.

 HEAR about the challenges and successes experienced by all – employers, service providers and the newcomers themselves.

For a better understanding about these initiatives and details about immigration as a recruitment option and join us for this PD Session 

Employees at all levels need to respond adequately to the trends that shape the new business environment. This requires looking at developing employees to strive for greater courage to innovate, increased vulnerability that leads to connection, increased accountability, elevated comfort with risk, more effective management of a diverse workforce, and increased ability to embrace change and disruption. Join David Cory, M.A., founder of the Emotional Intelligence Training Company Inc., who has been working to develop the emotional intelligence skills of leaders in progressive organizations around the globe for the past 20 years. 

In this presentation, you will:

• Obtain the definitions for Courage, Vulnerability, Resilience and Emotional Intelligence
• Learn the connection between Courage, Vulnerability, Resilience, Emotional Intelligence and effective Leadership at all levels
• Understand one model of emotional intelligence and its potential to assist HR professionals to create learning and developmemt programs desgined to enhance Courage, Vulnerability, Resilience and Emotional Intelligence

First and foremost, the quality, efficiency and dynamism of a team depend on those who are its members. It is therefore necessary to know oneself and to value the differences of others. Everyone is special and has their own qualities and limitations. There are many types of personalities. A team is at its strongest when it is made up of various personalities. Knowing all these personalities and maximizing the strengths of the individuals that make up the group will help create a team spirit oriented towards achieving common objectives. This conference will give us the tools we need to work together to overcome the countless challenges that life presents to us.

Every day you and your team make commitments, engage in conversations and make endless choices which move you closer to or further away from individual and team goals. Learn how to utilize the 3C’s of Communication to create a solution-based approach for self and others to goal-achieve. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Shift communication with others from a problem-based to solutions-based approach
• Influence those you lead to adopt a Stress is Optional approach; goal-achieve with ease
• Witness your goals taking form with way more ease using a mindful approach with the 3C’s
• Experience more ease and reduced conflict as your values align with 3C’s
• Focus on what you do want; simplify how, where and who you allocate your energy to; align your energy with what you do want

We welcome back a very popular mindfulness speaker, Wendy Quan. This session is about the fantastic technique of combining mindfulness meditation with change management to help people through challenging change. 

Wendy will share her latest outstanding research results on this technique that helps people create a more positive experience of change, and discuss pilot studies currently being conducted within organizations using this technique. 

Our past webinars featuring Wendy were sold out, so please register early. 

Attendees of this session will be offered a VIP price for The Calm Monkey’s 'Dealing with Change Toolkit'. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• about the Individual Change Journey
• what it means to combine change management and meditation
• the outstanding results of this technique for individuals and workplaces
• experience this meditation live for yourself

Tiffany Kelly, the Project Lead at CCRW, will provide background information as well as an overview of the Disability Confident Employer Program (DCEP) program and pilot projects. One of the program sponsors will speak about how DCEP will fit into CCRW’s national strategy as it leaves the pilot stage on March 4, 2019. Attendees will also hear from pilot employers who took the training. These employers will share their thoughts and experiences, and how they can apply it to their businesses.

Pre-hire assessments are designed to explore an individual's learning speed, motivations and personality, but what exactly does each one do in the context of finding the right candidate and how can you ensure a postive ROI? Tried and tested, scientifically reliable and consistently successful, find out how the science behind jobfit assessments can help you achieve REPEATABLE hiring success. 

In this presentation, you will:

• What are pre-hire assessments and their different types?
• What are best use practices?
• How to develop + validate job benchmarks (ROI)
• Data protection + privacy requirements
• Certification

The pattern is common in life: your goals matter, the commitment is genuine, yet despite knowing what we must do, and wanting to do it, we fail to do it. 

This presentation, answers why behavior change can be so darn difficult.

A recent medical study showed that, even when cardiologists told seriously at-risk patients that they had to make lifestyle changes if they wanted to continue living, only one in seven patients was able to make the changes stick. One in seven! If death isn’t a sufficient motivation for change, what hope does the average leader have in simply improving at work? 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Insights into why leaders struggle with "engagement" and "delegation" – the most frequently addressed area of behavioral improvement for leadership
• A synthesis of 30 years of research into why people resists making the changes they genuinely want to make
• Practical insights and tools for habit change, including the Immunity to Change™ Model developed by thought leaders at Harvard University
• Opportunities to strengthen your organization’s talent management and people development by infusing insights and tools from neuroscience and the science of habit change.

Employee relations is what defines the relationships between the employer and the employees. We know that the quality of the employee relations in an organization will dictate how people behave in the workplace. We also know that people’s behaviours can be influenced by our actions. Therefore, there are principles; some do’s and don’ts in employee relations that will help us improve our teams and workplaces.  In this breakfast meeting, Maxime Labbé of Montana Consulting Group will share with us some key practices he has learned over the last 20 years. Through cases, Maxime will challenge us and facilitate productive discussions that will help identify effective practices for positive employee relations

The AGM & Elections will be held immediately follwing the "Do's & Don'ts in Employee Relations" presentation. 

Please plan to stay behind to attend! 

In New Brunswick, multiple employment sectors continue to express their need for a strong, vibrant, and well-prepared work force.  Increasingly, this need is on the rise and results in the question “Where will these workers come from?”

This 3-part conversational style presentation will highlight opportunities around meeting the challenges of the current New Brunswick workforce environment.  The focus will be on :

WHAT programs are there to help take advantage of these opportunities?

WHY and WHEN should economic immigration should be considered?

HOW local organizations can provide support, information, and more?

The Government of New Brunswick, Department of Post-Secondary Education Training and Labour will provide information on the various streams available to employers to help them successfully navigate and meet their human resource needs.  From creating employee training plans to developing recruitment strategies and implementing onboarding initiatives, you will:

 LEARN about the supports available to access potential employees from across New Brunswick, throughout Canada, and around the world.

 HEAR about the challenges and successes experienced by all – employers, service providers and the newcomers themselves.

 For a better understanding about these initiatives and details about immigration as a recruitment option and join us for this PD Session 

One of the top challenges leaders face is figuring out how to work on versus in their role while ensuring positive influence for team goals. Implement this proven 4-Step System, then influence your team to do the same. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Implement a work-backwards approach for annual goals so they are manageable and net consistent results by focusing on a: Quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily system
• Reduce overwhelm from too many projects deadlines with this proven 4-step system
• Shift old worn out habits no longer serving you through the practice of this 4-step process
• Learn to work on vs in your role and influence your team to do the same; utilize rewards and incentives to maintain engagement, productivity and consistent results

Technology affects all aspects of modern life, both at work and at home. In 2017, just over 1/5 of Canadian businesses are impacted by a cybersecurity incident and spent over $14B on cybersecurity. Cybersecurity risks can impact our workplaces and have a significant personal impact on our lives. This session is focused on understanding today’s most common cyber security risks and how you can protect yourself at work and at home. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Why cybersecurity matters
• Top cybersecurity threats
• Tips on how to reduce the risks of falling victim to the top threats
• What you can do as HR professionals to help your organizations

In New Brunswick, multiple employment sectors continue to express their need for a strong, vibrant, and well-prepared work force.  Increasingly, this need is on the rise and results in the question “Where will these workers come from?”

This 3-part conversational style presentation will highlight opportunities around meeting the challenges of the current New Brunswick workforce environment.  The focus will be on:

WHAT programs are there to help take advantage of these opportunities?

WHY and WHEN should economic immigration should be considered?

HOW local organizations can provide support, information, and more?

The Government of New Brunswick, Department of Post-Secondary Education Training and Labour will provide information on the various streams available to employers to help them successfully navigate and meet their human resource needs.  From creating employee training plans to developing recruitment strategies and implementing onboarding initiatives, you will:

LEARN about the supports available to access potential employees from across New Brunswick, throughout Canada, and around the world.

HEAR about the challenges and successes experienced by all – employers, service providers and the newcomers themselves.

For a better understanding about these initiatives and details about immigration as a recruitment option and join us for this PD Session

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In New Brunswick, multiple employment sectors continue to express their need for a strong, vibrant, and well-prepared work force.  Increasingly, this need is on the rise and results in the question “Where will these workers come from?”

This 3-part conversational style presentation will highlight opportunities around meeting the challenges of the current New Brunswick workforce environment.  The focus will be on :

WHAT programs are there to help take advantage of these opportunities?

WHY and WHEN should economic immigration should be considered?

HOW local organizations can provide support, information, and more?

The Government of New Brunswick, Department of Post-Secondary Education Training and Labour will provide information on the various streams available to employers to help them successfully navigate and meet their human resource needs.  From creating employee training plans to developing recruitment strategies and implementing onboarding initiatives, you will:

LEARN about the supports available to access potential employees from across New Brunswick, throughout Canada, and around the world.

HEAR about the challenges and successes experienced by all – employers, service providers and the newcomers themselves.

For a better understanding about these initiatives and details about immigration as a recruitment option and join us for this PD  Session

Violence & Harassment in the workplace: Are you ready for April 1^st?

Learn about the new legislative provisions and what will be required from New-Brunswick employers. Regulatory changes addressing violence and harassment as workplace health and safety hazards will come into force on April 1, 2019.

Under the new regulatory changes, harassment and violence are defined as workplace hazards that affect health and safety. Sexual violence and harassment, domestic violence and intimate partner violence are also included.

 Note : We suggest that you bring  your employer`s documents related to violence and harassment in the workplace as there will be group discussions during this workshop.

Common Employment Law Mistakes

Employment law can be complicated. Legislation alone can be a vague and confusing creature, not to mention it’s always changing, and applying it correctly to your situation can be baffling. Then there’s common law confusion, too. Misinterpreting or overlooking parts of legislation can lead to significant legal consequences, so being confident you’re in compliance is essential. During this webinar, employment lawyer Ron LeClair will shed light on a few of the most common employment law mistakes employers tend to make.

Join us to avoid mistakes with:

Employment contracts;
Terminations; and
Managing absenteeism.

If you are writing the NKE, please note that CPHR New Brunswick is proud to offer our revised CPHR NKE Preparatory Session. This program, developed by the British Columbia Human Resources Management Association is now the official NKE preparatory program provided by five provincial HR associations including CPHR New Brunswick. It has been revised to reflect the new CPHR Competency Framework that became specific to the NKE beginning in 2015. 

This two-day course is designed to help you consolidate the knowledge you already have and - more importantly - identify where you need to focus additional studying in order to be successful in the National Knowledge Exam. 

During this interactive workshop, you will receive, review and discuss important HR theory for each competency area. You'll also receive the terms, definitions and sample exam questions, which will enable you to identify and rectify knowledge gaps. 

YOU WILL LEARN 
• The structure and format of the CPHR knowledge exam - components and weightings 
• An overview of the updated body of knowledge covered by the exam 
• To apply the knowledge using sample questions and group activities 
• How to design and implement an individualized learning plan 

YOU WILL RECEIVE 
• a 300+ page manual containing concepts, terminology, principles, legislation and practices from the eight discipline areas covered in the exam 
• glossary exercises for each of the new nine functional areas of knowledge (over 350 terms and definitions) you can use to enhance your understanding of HR terminology 
• sample questions 

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES 
It is important to note that the preparatory session is designed to give you direction on how to prepare for the exam as well as providing a source of study materials. Success in writing the National Knowledge Exam requires understanding of a vast body of knowledge. Participating in this session alone will not guarantee success. It will require on-going studying to ensure that you are as prepared as you possibly can be for the exam.

This is a 2-day session that is scheduled for April 4 and 5, 2019

Please note that the deadline to register for the upcoming CPHR National Knowledge exam is April 2, 2019.

The exam will take place on June 1, 2019

Jamie 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!  

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. 

Organizations of all types need to plan for tomorrow’s leadership, and there is only one certain rule about the future – those still above the grass get a year older every year.  So it’s a certainty that the Boomers will soon retire and the Millennial generation WILL be our leaders.

In this presentation, George Raine will discuss practical steps HR professionals can take to ensure that organizations are prepared to take advantage of the many strengths of the Millennial generation and develop succession planning practices to support their growth into senior roles.

One of the top challenges leaders face is figuring out how to manage their team’s needs and challenges in real time without compromising fulfillment of their own responsibilities. The 15-Minute Solutions-Based approach is a game-changer for leaders and their teams. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Create a "lead as you would like to follow" culture
• Implement a solutions vs problem-based approach; reduce stress and goal-achieve
• Adopt The 15-Minute Process with your teams, clients, partners to increase productivity, better manage everyone’s time, resolve conflicts with creativity and engagement, and, increase goal-achieving with more ease

This interactive workshop will provide you with:

• A new understanding of the role culture plays in delivering company strategy, achieving goals and delivering results. 

 You will leave the workshop with a set of tools that will enable you to:

• Identify your key cultural drivers;
• Review your organization's ability to deliver results based on a cultural assessment and;
• Build a plan to align your human resource plan to your business plan.

H℞: Solving Toxic Workplace Behaviour

Every workplace has that one employee (or worse, more than one) whose behaviour turns the workplace toxic. While the employee’s behaviour may not necessarily affect their own job performance, the behaviour and performance of other employees suffers. Addressing toxic behavior in the workplace can be difficult; it can be hard to identify, and it doesn’t necessarily violate company policy. Toxic behaviour can even seem not toxic at all—or at least worth enduring—when exhibited by top performers.employment law mistakes employers tend to make.

This webinar will identify toxic behaviours in the workplace, and also provide realistic methods of addressing toxic behaviour, while still trying to maintain a positive work environment.

Join us for our webinar and learn:

The different types of toxic behaviour;
When toxic behaviour crosses the line into harassment;
How to address toxic behaviour; and
How to address toxic behaviour if the source is a manager

As an employer, it's very important to stay up to date with new tendencies in order to stand out. In this conference, we will discuss 7 primary topics for employers wanting to be proactive as well as able to take action!

- Employer Brand
- Employee Experience
- Global Remuneration
- Sharing Knowledge
- Generations
- Cultural Diversity
- Artificial Intelligence

Optimize your practice with these new tendencies!

How many of the change initiatives started in your organization succeed?  How many sustain the results even one year later?  How often is it because people do not change their behaviours to support the new process?

 Prosci defines Change management as a process and set of tools to manage the people side of change to achieve business results.

This overview seminar will discuss HRs role in the change management process.

 We will discuss what change management is, why we need it, and the critical roles that HR can fill in change success.

Agenda:

• Why change?
• Why change management?
• Overview of the change process and its impact on employees
• Roles HR can play
• Scenario discussion

Talent management today requires that we hired the best people, employ and retrain them doing important work for the organization in the smartest ways possible and teach them how to work effectively with their peers and bosses. All of that is possible if we use the LET ‘formula’.  In this talk, Sandy will go over his own experience being managed at the outset of his career using the LET formula, how he incorporated LET into his challenging work with others, what the literature, including current research on neuroscience, says about LET and how LET works with contemporary  graduating students at Mount Allison University.  Hands on application of the three elements of LET will follow the talk.

Canada boasts a whopping 7.3 million millennials, exceeding the boomers as the largest age group. According to Deloitte, millennials are expected to make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025. Organizations often overlook or misunderstand three key areas of the employee experience as it applies to millennials: Health & Wellbeing, Social Workplace, and Collective Intelligence & Feedback. In this webinar, we’ll look at how to understand the goals, values, and ambitions to help attract, engage and retain millennials. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

• What does "employee experience" mean to millennials?
• What motivates millennials?
• What do millennials value in the workplace?
• How do you retain millennials? (The three areas - goals, values, ambitions)

Studies show that up to 90% of workplace incidents are caused by human error, and progressive organizations are now looking at the human factor in the safety equation. Learning how to identify and manage personality risk factors can reduce the occurrence of injuries, work stoppages, equipment and property damage and insurance costs. This webinar is designed to help HR professionals understand how personality contributes to preventable workplace incidents. Participants will learn how to identify and coach employees who are more naturally distractible, impulsive, ruleresistant and impatient, resulting in safer behaviours in the workplace. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

1. How personality contributes to increasing or reducing workplace incidents and injuries.
2. How to identify the leading indicators of personality risk tolerance in others and recognize risk before an incident occurs.
3. How to adapt your communication style and training approach to each employee and improve safety-related behavior in your workplace.

Learn about the legislative provisions and what is required from New Brunswick employers.

This must-attend seminar for human resources professionals will provide insight on the impacts of cannabis in the workplace and practical tips on how to prepare your organization.

You will learn about:

• The issues arising from cannabis and impairment in the workplace
• Testing methods and reliability
• When drug testing is appropriate
• Accommodation and Discipline
• Policy implications and best practices
• Recent ceaselaw on this issue

What does it mean to lead with heart and what does the science say about leading with heart? Join Jill and David Cory from EITC as they discuss the creation of EITC’s newest course The Heart and Science of Leadership. They will talk about why the course was created, how the course is based on research and evidence-based practice. And finally, why this course has the potential to improve leadership and change lives. 

In this presentation, you will:

1. Learn a model of transformational leadership and the connection with heart
2. Learn about the science of leadership
3. Take away suggestions for improving your own leadership skills

Mental illness is on the rise in Canadian workplaces. While most employers recognize their accommodation obligations towards employees with mental illness under Human Rights legislation, these duties can be stressed when balancing productivity concerns, absenteeism or personality challenges. In this presentation, we discuss a challenging topic under human rights law, and explore the legalities of terminating employees with mental disabilities.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Duty to accommodate
• Undue hardship
• Wrongful dismissal
• Strategies and risk mitigation
• Legal processes

The most common rewards and recognition program in Canada are the years of service awards. If your primary recognition and engagement strategy is based on 5-year increments, it leaves a lot to be desired and results in missed opportunities for ongoing meaningful recognition and engagement. Studies have shown that recognition should be given to employees within a week of their contribution for maximum effect. Real-time social recognition is becoming an integral part of many organizations and impacts all aspects of an organization from employee turnover to innovation, and even customer satisfaction. But how do you harness the power of social recognition? 

Join Tom Short, Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Kudos to learn about social recognition and strategies to help you boost employee engagement and organizational success. Find out how to create a culture of recognition and the importance of giving meaningful, value-based social recognition. 

In this presentation, we will cover:

• Social recognition vs. Traditional recognition
• Creating a culture of recognition
• Recognition vs. Rewards
• Tying recognition to values and behaviours
• Budgeting and making a business case for social recognition

Emotional intelligence (EQ) skills are more often a more significant determinant of success than cognitive intelligence (IQ). Your work ethic, your attitude, your communication, interpersonal, conflict management, and stress management skills, are some of the emotional intelligence skills that are crucial for career success. However, like anything, too much of a good thing can be too much.

There is a dark side of emotional intelligence. Being too high in one competency may come at the detriment of another capability. For instance, too much self-regard leads to overconfidence, narcissism, and an inability to admit mistakes. The key here is to learn to recognize when one of your strengths may become a hindrance to your success. In this webinar, we will highlight the dark side of all 15 emotional intelligence competencies, and you will walk away knowing how to better balance your soft skills for optimal results. 

As HR practitioners, we are increasingly being called on to consider coaching as a tool for individuals, teams, and our organizations. What about us? What could be different for us AND our organizations if we developed the skill to bring a "coach approach" to our work and our leadership? I can tell you with 100% certainty, it would change the whole game!

In this workshop, we will explore the wide range of understandings as to what leadership coaching is and isn't. You will learn some of the core skills and a basic model for coaching. We will use YOUR real-life experiences to engage you in learning and application - you can't learn coaching using role play.  We will consider things like having difficult conversations, providing feedback, and leading change - all thing we as HR professionals deal with daily!  It is a highly interactive workshop - one that you will leave with immediately useable skills and a hunger for more.  

We hope you will join us for this opportunity to grow and learn together in a safe and confidential environment. 

Stress and poor mental health contribute significantly to disease and disability, as well as absenteeism, diminished performance, and other workplace issues. Providing a safe and healthy work environment is usually associated with physical risks, but workplaces present just as much danger for employees’ mental health. Organizations are obligated to protect all aspects of health and safety for employees, and so should consider emotional and mental well-being, too.

This webinar will help employers recognize the warning signs of mental illness, and what organizations can do to minimize mental health hazards, accommodate employees, and provide a healthy work environment that supports the physical and mental well-being of employees.

Join us for our webinar as we discuss:

Why workplace mental health matters;
Mental health first aid;
How employers can help; and
Accommodation and mental health.

We are on the cusp of a dramatic technological revolution that will disrupt our workplaces in a manner that our society has not experienced since our shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy. Led by such nascent technologies as self-driving cars, large-scale 3-D printing and artificial intelligence, this technological revolution will dramatically touch every industry, from trucking, construction and manufacturing to engineering, accounting and medicine.

Are we ready for this change? If managed properly, this technological leap has the potential to make us wealthier, healthier and happier. However, it may also lead to wide-scale job destruction, dramatically increased inequality and a rapid spike in permanent unemployment. 

Have you noticed the age difference of the people sitting near you at work? Look around at your next meeting, and you will see someone close to retirement sitting next to a freshly out-of-school graduate. These circumstances present a unique challenge for today's leaders: how to motivate and manage an inter-generational workforce.

As New-Brunswick's population continues to age, those left in the workforce will be faced with challenges never seen before. Eddie LeMoine will bring participants through a journey to understand the impact of the aging population and how to create a workplace that will attract and retain a winning team. You will discover how to work across five generations, in a multicultural and diverse workforce. This presentation is packed with content participants can use as soon as they go back to work.

Aging demographics and the shrinking workforce has been a front and center topic for several years. With people living longer, staying in the workforce longer or re-entering the workforce after retirement, we are now experiencing the latest form of diversity in the workplace—five generations! Should leaders be concerned about these shifting generation gaps? Definitely! To achieve maximum productivity and a great work environment, an effective leader is a leader who understands, manages, and communicates across all generations.

Today it's commonplace for five generations to be working side by side within an organization. This recent phenomenon is contributing to the newest and probably most significant workplace challenge for today's leaders. Research shows that bridging the generation gap leads to a more productive and happy work environment. Managing a specific generation (e.g., the Millennials) is no longer enough. It is now critical for a leader to understand, manage, and communicate cogently across all ages. Eddie LeMoine has been delivering keynote presentations and training sessions on the inter-generational workplace since 2005 and is considered a foremost authority on this topic. Let him share his insights for leading each generation in your organization.

Eddie LeMoine has made an extensive study of the inter-generational workplace. His observations are enlightening, and his presentations are delightfully entertaining and content-rich. Thousands of participants have learned from and enjoyed this presentation, and it continues to be one of his most popular topics. It is delivered in an engaging, fast-paced, and entertaining session filled with stories anecdotes and videos.

Key topics:

• How the retiring baby-boom cohort will impact workplace
• How to communicate effectively with all generations
• What unique characteristics each generation has and how to motivate them
• How to work effectively with each generation that you are not a part of
• What the key motivators are for each generation
• The “Curtain call” retaining workers after retirement age.
• Why the biggest competition in the future will be for human resources.
• How to relate to clients from all generations
• Harness the expertise of long-term employees. How technology will become more important to offset the shrinking workforce.
• What are successful organizations doing to attract, engage, and retain workers?
• The cost of losing an employee and the impact it has on costs and benefits
• How to keep people in the workforce
• Why the one size fits all approach to employee benefits, and office environment will not work in the future.
• Successfully navigate diverse demographics and skillfully integrate five generations in one workplace.
• Interpret future trends and their impact on your organization
• Improve productivity
• Contain cost

Studies show that up to 90% of workplace incidents are caused by human error, and progressive organizations are now looking at the human factor in the safety equation. Learning how to identify and manage personality risk factors can reduce the occurrence of injuries, work stoppages, equipment and property damage and insurance costs. This webinar is designed to help HR professionals understand how personality contributes to preventable workplace incidents. Participants will learn how to identify and coach employees who are more naturally distractible, impulsive, ruleresistant and impatient, resulting in safer behaviours in the workplace. 

In this presentation, you will learn:

1. How personality contributes to increasing or reducing workplace incidents and injuries.
2. How to identify the leading indicators of personality risk tolerance in others and recognize risk before an incident occurs.
3. How to adapt your communication style and training approach to each employee and improve safety-related behavior in your workplace.

Have you noticed the age difference of the people sitting near you at work? Look around at your next meeting, and you will see someone close to retirement sitting next to a freshly out-of-school graduate. These circumstances present a unique challenge for today's leaders: how to motivate and manage an inter-generational workforce.

As New-Brunswick's population continues to age, those left in the workforce will be faced with challenges never seen before. Eddie LeMoine will bring participants through a journey to understand the impact of the aging population and how to create a workplace that will attract and retain a winning team. You will discover how to work across five generations, in a multicultural and diverse workforce. This presentation is packed with content participants can use as soon as they go back to work.

Aging demographics and the shrinking workforce has been a front and center topic for several years. With people living longer, staying in the workforce longer or re-entering the workforce after retirement, we are now experiencing the latest form of diversity in the workplace—five generations! Should leaders be concerned about these shifting generation gaps? Definitely! To achieve maximum productivity and a great work environment, an effective leader is a leader who understands, manages, and communicates across all generations.

Today it's commonplace for five generations to be working side by side within an organization. This recent phenomenon is contributing to the newest and probably most significant workplace challenge for today's leaders. Research shows that bridging the generation gap leads to a more productive and happy work environment. Managing a specific generation (e.g., the Millennials) is no longer enough. It is now critical for a leader to understand, manage, and communicate cogently across all ages. Eddie LeMoine has been delivering keynote presentations and training sessions on the inter-generational workplace since 2005 and is considered a foremost authority on this topic. Let him share his insights for leading each generation in your organization.

Eddie LeMoine has made an extensive study of the inter-generational workplace. His observations are enlightening, and his presentations are delightfully entertaining and content-rich. Thousands of participants have learned from and enjoyed this presentation, and it continues to be one of his most popular topics. It is delivered in an engaging, fast-paced, and entertaining session filled with stories anecdotes and videos.

Key topics

• How the retiring baby-boom cohort will impact workplace
• How to communicate effectively with all generations
• What unique characteristics each generation has and how to motivate them
• How to work effectively with each generation that you are not a part of
• What the key motivators are for each generation
• The “Curtain call” retaining workers after retirement age.
• Why the biggest competition in the future will be for human resources.
• How to relate to clients from all generations
• Harness the expertise of long-term employees. How technology will become more important to offset the shrinking workforce.
• What are successful organizations doing to attract, engage, and retain workers?
• The cost of losing an employee and the impact it has on costs and benefits
• How to keep people in the workforce
• Why the one size fits all approach to employee benefits, and office environment will not work in the future.
• Successfully navigate diverse demographics and skillfully integrate five generations in one workplace.
• Interpret future trends and their impact on your organization
• Improve productivity
• Contain cost

Have you noticed the age difference of the people sitting near you at work? Look around at your next meeting, and you will see someone close to retirement sitting next to a freshly out-of-school graduate. These circumstances present a unique challenge for today's leaders: how to motivate and manage an inter-generational workforce.

As New-Brunswick's population continues to age, those left in the workforce will be faced with challenges never seen before. Eddie LeMoine will bring participants through a journey to understand the impact of the aging population and how to create a workplace that will attract and retain a winning team. You will discover how to work across five generations, in a multicultural and diverse workforce. This presentation is packed with content participants can use as soon as they go back to work.

Aging demographics and the shrinking workforce has been a front and center topic for several years. With people living longer, staying in the workforce longer or re-entering the workforce after retirement, we are now experiencing the latest form of diversity in the workplace—five generations! Should leaders be concerned about these shifting generation gaps? Definitely! To achieve maximum productivity and a great work environment, an effective leader is a leader who understands, manages, and communicates across all generations.

Today it's commonplace for five generations to be working side by side within an organization. This recent phenomenon is contributing to the newest and probably most significant workplace challenge for today's leaders. Research shows that bridging the generation gap leads to a more productive and happy work environment. Managing a specific generation (e.g., the Millennials) is no longer enough. It is now critical for a leader to understand, manage, and communicate cogently across all ages. Eddie LeMoine has been delivering keynote presentations and training sessions on the inter-generational workplace since 2005 and is considered a foremost authority on this topic. Let him share his insights for leading each generation in your organization.

Eddie LeMoine has made an extensive study of the inter-generational workplace. His observations are enlightening, and his presentations are delightfully entertaining and content-rich. Thousands of participants have learned from and enjoyed this presentation, and it continues to be one of his most popular topics. It is delivered in an engaging, fast-paced, and entertaining session filled with stories anecdotes and videos.

Key topics:

• How the retiring baby-boom cohort will impact workplace
• How to communicate effectively with all generations
• What unique characteristics each generation has and how to motivate them
• How to work effectively with each generation that you are not a part of
• What the key motivators are for each generation
• The “Curtain call” retaining workers after retirement age.
• Why the biggest competition in the future will be for human resources.
• How to relate to clients from all generations
• Harness the expertise of long-term employees. How technology will become more important to offset the shrinking workforce.
• What are successful organizations doing to attract, engage, and retain workers?
• The cost of losing an employee and the impact it has on costs and benefits
• How to keep people in the workforce
• Why the one size fits all approach to employee benefits, and office environment will not work in the future.
• Successfully navigate diverse demographics and skillfully integrate five generations in one workplace.
• Interpret future trends and their impact on your organization
• Improve productivity
• Contain cost

Join Michael McGovern and Kelly VanBuskirk for a wide-ranging discussion that will include:

• Information on the OHS legislation that came into effect on April 1 regarding workplace harassment and violence, how you can comply with the new requirements and how you can provide value to workplaces in preventing harassment problems.
  
  
• A discussion on the potential effect of the new OHS legislation on workers’ compensation claims.
  
  
• How case law is developing around both medical and recreational cannabis use in the workplace. Those cases and how you can address the issues they raise will be discussed.
  
  
• An update on recent legislative amendments affecting worker’s compensation claimsthe session will conclude with an open discussion on any labour/employment/health & safety/compensation issues that you want to discuss

This must-attend seminar for human resources professionals will provide insight on the impacts of cannabis in the workplace and practical tips on how to prepare your organization.

You will learn about:

• The issues arising from cannabis and impairment in the workplace
• Testing methods and reliability
• When drug testing is appropriate
• Accommodation and Discipline
• Policy implications and best practices
• Recent ceaselaw on this issue

Paul Godin, of Katalyst Resolutions, will discuss a variety of approaches to analyzing and preparing for challenging workplace negotiations and grievances. A strategic preparation model focusing on Principled Negotiation will provide structure, adding value for organizations wanting win-win solutions and wanting to build/maintain fruitful long term relationships with staff and stakeholders.

We use at least two separate tools, one for complex negotiations, using the elements of Principled Negotiation, and one quick and easy preparation model (Katalyst Resolutions T.I.P.S. Approach) for simpler or more urgent matters. Paul Godin is the author of "Principles of Negotiation" in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Manual and has taught hundreds of workshops on negotiation skills.

We apply the core skills of negotiation as a conflict resolution toolkit applicable to any dispute.

In our negotiation workshops, participants can learn how to:

• Negotiate effectively
• Deal with hard bargainers and difficult people
• Generate creative win-win solutions by identifying people’s interests
• Get objectively good and fair results
• Prepare effectively for any negotiation
• Maintain and build valuable long term relationships
• Problem-solve challenges effectively
• Know when to say yes, and when and how to say no
• Manage complex issues and multi-party negotiations
• Be persuasive and change locked in perspectives
• Deal with positional bargainers
• Negotiate with unreasonable people
• Communicate and listen effectively and minimize conflict
• Manage the use and disclosure of information

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Learn how to prepare effectively and with confidence to negotiate workplace issues and conflicts.
• Learn how to plan for and deal with hard bargainers and difficult people
• Generate creative win-win solutions by identifying people’s interests
• Learn how to prepare effectively for any negotiation
• Learn how to use two core tools for negotiation preparation
• Know when to say yes, and when and how to say no

Employee turnover can be as high as 50% in the first 18 months of employment. Meanwhile, Gallup has found that only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job of onboarding new employees. A positive onboarding experience plays a crucial role in reducing turnover rates and fostering employee loyalty - companies that actively employ a proactive onboarding and engagement program can experience an increase of up to of employees who stay for at least 3 years.

Join Tom Short, Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Kudos as we explore practical, replicable and engaging strategies for creating a positive and successful onboarding program! You’ll learn how to design, nurture and sustain an effective onboarding strategy so you can increase organizational engagement, reduce turnover and boost morale.

In this presentation, we will cover:

• Define Onboarding
• Onboarding and Orientation
• Formal vs Informal Onboarding
• Mechanical and Soft Tasks
• Ongoing engagement best practices

Some termination situations are more complex than merely “with cause” or “without cause”. Join McInnes Cooper Labour & Employment Lawyers Lucie LaBoissonnière and Dominique Fontaine as they provide practical tools and tips to help you manage tough termination situations, such as: during or after return from statutory leave or lengthy sick leave and in cases of frequent but innocent absenteeism, substance abuse, or mental or physical disability.

Thriving on Change provides common sense solutions to the challenge of dealing with change. It is a practical, relevant and easily applied set of tools everyone can apply to their lives.

"Are more things changing in your life right now than staying the same?"

That is certainly the case for many people these days, regardless of what phase of life they are trying to navigate. While change is constant throughout our life, there are times it just feels overwhelming.

Stress is often defined as a failure to adapt to change. Living with change in ways that reduce stress has become a core survival skill for everyone who wants to keep up and thrive in today's fast-paced world.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Determine the various ways change is impacting you and how you can take better care of yourself.
• Assess your current level of resiliency and identify simple ways you can strengthen it immediately.
• Clarify the difference between change and transition, a crucial distinction to understand when trying to navigate times of major change.
• Outline a personal transition plan to help you get through all the current changes you are facing.
• Develop a simple map that identifies where all the changes are on your journey through transition.

O.C. Tanner helps clients leverage tools and best practices to recognize career milestones in ways that build connected cultures. Whether you are implementing a career achievement program or helping an existing one gain traction, this session will discuss how to empower your leaders to celebrate careers in ways that increase tenure and impact your workplace culture. 

Join Jeff Birk, Manager, O.C. Tanner Institute, as he presents best practices and tools for service awards that deliver results. 

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Change mindsets and show leaders how meaningful career celebrations benefit them, their teams, your culture, and the bottom line
• Create long-term behavior change by transforming leaders into recognition believers who apply career celebration best practices
• Strengthen workplace cultures by empowering leaders to show team members how valued they are through the power of career celebrations

Leading Change has become a critically important skill for everyone from supervisors to executives in all organizations in todays fast paced world. Unfortunately, research continues to show 2 out of 3 changes fail in one way or another resulting in a massive cost in time, money and lost opportunities.

Leading change successfully is a skill set that can be readily learned by everyone in a supervisory role. Leading Change provides a practical, thoughtful approach to ensuring your organization can initiate and sustain change. This program integrates the four essential competencies of effective strategic leadership, aligning and implementing successful change, leading people through transition and ensuring communication engages everyone.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Develop helpful systems views to fully identify and understand the current context of the whole situation.
• Clarify what changes are necessary, the consequences of not changing and where the organization is going in as simple and engaging language as possible.
• Spell out how all the changes align to get the organization where it wants to go.
• Determine how to plan and implement all the changes so everyone knows what they need to do for the changes to succeed.
• Explore how to communicate change in ways that fully engages everyone.
• Develop a picture of where everyone is on the change journey and put a plan together to keep everyone moving forward together.

Have you noticed the age difference of the people sitting near you at work? Look around at your next meeting, and you will see someone close to retirement sitting next to a freshly out-of-school graduate. These circumstances present a unique challenge for today's leaders: how to motivate and manage an inter-generational workforce.

As New-Brunswick's population continues to age, those left in the workforce will be faced with challenges never seen before. Eddie LeMoine will bring participants through a journey to understand the impact of the aging population and how to create a workplace that will attract and retain a winning team. You will discover how to work across five generations, in a multicultural and diverse workforce. This presentation is packed with content participants can use as soon as they go back to work.

Aging demographics and the shrinking workforce has been a front and center topic for several years. With people living longer, staying in the workforce longer or re-entering the workforce after retirement, we are now experiencing the latest form of diversity in the workplace—five generations! Should leaders be concerned about these shifting generation gaps? Definitely! To achieve maximum productivity and a great work environment, an effective leader is a leader who understands, manages, and communicates across all generations.

Today it's commonplace for five generations to be working side by side within an organization. This recent phenomenon is contributing to the newest and probably most significant workplace challenge for today's leaders. Research shows that bridging the generation gap leads to a more productive and happy work environment. Managing a specific generation (e.g., the Millennials) is no longer enough. It is now critical for a leader to understand, manage, and communicate cogently across all ages. Eddie LeMoine has been delivering keynote presentations and training sessions on the inter-generational workplace since 2005 and is considered a foremost authority on this topic. Let him share his insights for leading each generation in your organization.

Eddie LeMoine has made an extensive study of the inter-generational workplace. His observations are enlightening, and his presentations are delightfully entertaining and content-rich. Thousands of participants have learned from and enjoyed this presentation, and it continues to be one of his most popular topics. It is delivered in an engaging, fast-paced, and entertaining session filled with stories anecdotes and videos.

Key topics:

• How the retiring baby-boom cohort will impact workplace
• How to communicate effectively with all generations
• What unique characteristics each generation has and how to motivate them
• How to work effectively with each generation that you are not a part of
• What the key motivators are for each generation
• The “Curtain call” retaining workers after retirement age.
• Why the biggest competition in the future will be for human resources.
• How to relate to clients from all generations
• Harness the expertise of long-term employees. How technology will become more important to offset the shrinking workforce.
• What are successful organizations doing to attract, engage, and retain workers?
• The cost of losing an employee and the impact it has on costs and benefits
• How to keep people in the workforce
• Why the one size fits all approach to employee benefits, and office environment will not work in the future.
• Successfully navigate diverse demographics and skillfully integrate five generations in one workplace.
• Interpret future trends and their impact on your organization
• Improve productivity
• Contain cost

“Communication is like a game of catch. There is a throw and then a catch, followed by another throw and another catch. In many changing organizations, there is just a lot of throwing.”

Inadequate communication continues to be one of the top three reasons change fails in most organizations. Many changing organizations rely on various forms of technology to communicate change information. This reliance gets them only so far, and it is usually not very far at all.

Communicating Change is a comprehensive, practical program that ensures changing organizations are up to the challenge of helping everyone wrap their brains, arms and heart around all the changes.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Explore the complexity of the challenge of communication facing every changing organization.
• Determine the essential principles behind the Who, What, When & How to ensure communication engages everyone.
• Apply a variety of helpful communication tools to the situation in your own changing organization.
• Outline a plan to significantly improve the level of engagement in your changing organization.

Leadership has never been so essential and yet so difficult to define. In a world that is more competitive now than ever, how can leaders differentiate themselves from the rest? Instead of focusing on building better products, we need to build better teams, better characters, and better habits. These are the essential pillars of high-performance company culture. Come and find out how your company culture can set you apart from your competitors! 

 In this presentation, you will learn how you can create a positive corporate culture right away:

• Emphasis on employee wellness. No organization can expect to foster a positive culture without healthy employees; that's where habits come in. 
• Grow off your current culture. Building a positive corporate culture doesn't mean employers should entirely scrap everything their company currently stands for.
• Provide meaning. Meaning and purpose are more important in the workplace now than ever. 
• Listen. Being a good listener is one of the easiest ways employers can start to build a positive culture. 
• Encourage positivity. To build a positive culture, employers need to start by encouraging positivity in the workplace. 
• More to be shared at the event! 

Have you noticed the age difference of the people sitting near you at work? Look around at your next meeting, and you will see someone close to retirement sitting next to a freshly out-of-school graduate. These circumstances present a unique challenge for today's leaders: how to motivate and manage an inter-generational workforce.

As New-Brunswick's population continues to age, those left in the workforce will be faced with challenges never seen before. Eddie LeMoine will bring participants through a journey to understand the impact of the aging population and how to create a workplace that will attract and retain a winning team. You will discover how to work across five generations, in a multicultural and diverse workforce. This presentation is packed with content participants can use as soon as they go back to work.

Aging demographics and the shrinking workforce has been a front and center topic for several years. With people living longer, staying in the workforce longer or re-entering the workforce after retirement, we are now experiencing the latest form of diversity in the workplace—five generations! Should leaders be concerned about these shifting generation gaps? Definitely! To achieve maximum productivity and a great work environment, an effective leader is a leader who understands, manages, and communicates across all generations.

Today it's commonplace for five generations to be working side by side within an organization. This recent phenomenon is contributing to the newest and probably most significant workplace challenge for today's leaders. Research shows that bridging the generation gap leads to a more productive and happy work environment. Managing a specific generation (e.g., the Millennials) is no longer enough. It is now critical for a leader to understand, manage, and communicate cogently across all ages. Eddie LeMoine has been delivering keynote presentations and training sessions on the inter-generational workplace since 2005 and is considered a foremost authority on this topic. Let him share his insights for leading each generation in your organization.

Eddie LeMoine has made an extensive study of the inter-generational workplace. His observations are enlightening, and his presentations are delightfully entertaining and content-rich. Thousands of participants have learned from and enjoyed this presentation, and it continues to be one of his most popular topics. It is delivered in an engaging, fast-paced, and entertaining session filled with stories anecdotes and videos.

Key topics:
• How the retiring baby-boom cohort will impact workplace
• How to communicate effectively with all generations
• What unique characteristics each generation has and how to motivate them
• How to work effectively with each generation that you are not a part of
• What the key motivators are for each generation
• The “Curtain call” retaining workers after retirement age.
• Why the biggest competition in the future will be for human resources.
• How to relate to clients from all generations
• Harness the expertise of long-term employees. How technology will become more important to offset the shrinking workforce.
• What are successful organizations doing to attract, engage, and retain workers?
• The cost of losing an employee and the impact it has on costs and benefits
• How to keep people in the workforce
• Why the one size fits all approach to employee benefits, and office environment will not work in the future.
• Successfully navigate diverse demographics and skillfully integrate five generations in one workplace.
• Interpret future trends and their impact on your organization
• Improve productivity
• Contain cost

This notice is to inform the members of CPHRNB that the Annual General Meeting of CPHRNB Fredericton Chapter is scheduled for November 28^th, 2019 at the WU Centre, UNB Campus.  The meeting will take place at 10:00am immediately following our monthly professional development session featuring McInnes Cooper, Tools & Tips To Help Tackle Tough Terminations.

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

A call for nominations will be made for various Executive roles.  Your presence is requested for voting.

Some termination situations are more complex than merely “with cause” or “without cause”. Join McInnes Cooper Labour & Employment Lawyers Lucie LaBoissonnière and Dominique Fontaine as they provide practical tools and tips to help you manage tough termination situations, such as: during or after return from statutory leave or lengthy sick leave and in cases of frequent but innocent absenteeism, substance abuse, or mental or physical disability.

The CPHR New Brunswick Moncton Chapter Executive cordially invites members and one guest each to our appreciation holiday celebration. This event will also be a fundraiser for the Food Depot Alimentaire. We will be accepting donations of non-perishable food items, and in return members will receive a free drink ticket while quantities last. Delicious hors d’oeuvres will be served to the sound of festive music with Marco Rocca. To cap off this wonderful evening, several door prizes will be given to lucky winners. We look forward to welcoming our members and their guest as a thank you for your support throughout the year.

“Does your organization rely on outside expertise to help it change – so there is someone to blame when the changes fail?”

We are living in an era of profound transformation. Only those organizations that have mastered the ability to adapt and change survive and thrive.

The cost of failed changes, in terms of lost time, money, energy and opportunity is enormous. Building a strong internal capacity for initiating and sustaining successful change is a critically important requirement for every organization.

Guiding Change is a comprehensive, practical program that outlines the roadmap for building change leadership capacity throughout your organization.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Deepen your understanding of what it takes to help your organization change using an integrated, systems-based approach.
• Identify who is best suited to guide change and what they require to do their best work.
• Clarify the ideal flow of activities to follow when helping your organization change that spells out WHO you work with WHEN and WHAT you help them to do.
• Explore the facilitation, consulting and helping skills that are so necessary for competent guides.
• Assess the current level of competency for guiding change in your organization.