Emerging Workplace Trends: Tackling the Challenges
Networking Night: September 25, 2019 | 6:00PM-8:00PM
Conference: September 26, 2019 | 8:30AM-5:00PM
| Early Bird Pricing | Conference | Networking Night |
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| HRPA Members | $200 | $25 |
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| Non-Members | $300 | $50 |
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| Students | $100 | $25 |
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| Regular Pricing (after August 1) | Conference | Networking Night |
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| HRPA Members | $250 | $35 |
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| Non-Members | $350 | $70 |
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| Students | $100 | $25 |
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Win a $1,000 Travel Voucher – and Go Anywhere You Want!
This year, there will be a special giveaway at the Eastern Conference. One lucky delegate will receive a $1,000 travel voucher, redeemable for any travel experience you choose. Redeemable with itravel2000.com, the voucher applies to travel deals, airfare, hotels and more – with no blackout dates. Check your next trip off your bucket list with us!
September 25 - Join us at our East-Side Social!
As a conference attendee, you get the added benefit of an invitation to attend our 2nd annual East-Side Social.
Skip the arduous trip to Toronto and discover the vibrant, thriving HR community in Eastern Ontario. Network with your HR neighbours, and build invaluable connections right in your own backyard.
Share some gourmet hors d'oeuvres as you meet and connect with HR and business professionals.
This is a complimentary event. Please select "AND Networking" option to indicate your attendance when registering online.
September 26 - Conference Sessions
Morning Keynote: Team Human
We spend the majority of our waking lives at work. Work is a necessity for all but a select few. It allows us to put food on the table, a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs. However, many of us are unwilling participants in the War on Work. We live for the weekends and holidays. We count down the days until retirement. And as we tick the days of our lives off, we forget what work could mean – that it doesn't have to be something to fight against. We need work for more than just a paycheck at the end of the week. Work can (and should) provide us with so much more – belonging, appreciation, achievement, growth.
In this workshop, we dare teams and companies to join Team Human and create strong cultures by working from the inside out – helping all their people contribute each day to the culture through their choices. We teach participants how to change culture from a noun to a verb – treating it not as something you have, but something each person does.
Speaker: Gary Gzik
Morning Breakout:
High Potential Traits and Alignment with Leadership Pipeline
This session will explore the effect of personality traits on leadership, with an introduction to the High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI) as a measure. We will examine recent data for North American leaders' traits, relative to their impact on business, and how these insights can be used practically in business to develop your leadership pipeline.
We will explore:
- What is potential and how do we measure it at work?
- Why is personality such an important measure of potential?
- How do specific personality traits predict potential at work?
- How do we leverage personality traits for high potential identification and succession planning?
- Keys to developing leadership capability
Speaker: Lisa Klaehn
Employee Benefits: A
tool in your HR Toolkit
In this session you will learn the elements of a benefits plan, how they are priced today and at the annual renewal, and emerging trends in employee benefits to evolve you plans into the future.
Speaker: Bryce Parisotto
Performance Management for Small to Medium Enterprises
Whether you are in a small or medium-sized organization, performance management is vital to the growth of both employees and the company. Optimal performance will benefit the organization in many ways: reduced turnover costs, increased productivity, better legal compliance and stronger employee engagement.
Performance management consists of two main elements – goal setting and performance review. This session will focus mainly on setting performance objectives and finding new ways of managing performance.
- Goals of Performance Management
- Performance Management Process (SMART)
- Performance Management versus Performance Appraisal
- Performance Appraisals • Connecting Performance Management and Appraisals
- Performance Management and Compensation Link
Speaker: Anne-Catherine Verreault
Social Media Investigations 101 for HR Professionals
As HR Professionals you have the opportunity to avoid hiring an applicant that could compromise your organization's brand, leak sensitive information, speak unfavorably online, create a toxic work culture (bullying), or even put employees at personal risk of violence. A professional social media and web background investigation could be the difference between a successful or regrettable hiring decision.
Learning Objectives:
- Creating The Investigative Framework and Strategy
- Advanced Social Media Search and Investigative Tips and Strategies
- Google "Voodoo" and Search Operators
- Protecting Your "Brand"
- Key Sources of Information
- Tools and Resources
Speaker: Matt Richardson
Afternoon Super Session: Conflict First Aid: What Concretely Helps, How to Stay Out of the Middle
Conflict, complaints and disruption are sometimes ugly, powerful and costly stressors in today's workplaces. What really helps with the costs and to better support those affected? What can make the difference when it's not well handled, escalates, and gets ugly?
This fast moving and resource-filled talk delivers simple, powerful new skills that illuminate what's needed for effective Conflict First Aid™.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain how those affected - especially leaders in teams, HR and Unions - can ensure any next step in Conflict First Aid™ is appropriate.
- Describe where options like workplace mediation, coaching and restoration fit.
- List the first steps in Conflict First Aid that best support and can sustain a lasting resolution.
- Outline the key to offering support and yet stay out of the middle.
- Sustain accountability, ethics and the need for HR, management and teams to address problem solving effectively.
- Use resources to illuminate the skills, including conflict "mapping" questions.
Speaker: Joan McLeod
Afternoon Breakout 1:
Succession Planning: Growing your Talent
A recent Deloitte study (2018) states "While 86 percent of leaders believe leadership succession planning is an "urgent" or "important" priority, only 14 percent believe they do it well." Attend this breakout session and get it right!
Learning Objectives:
- starting from first principles, what makes an organization effective
- delving into where succession planning fits within an integrated talent management process
- understanding how to evaluate both the "what" and the "how" within the succession planning process
- reviewing the 3 steps to a successful succession planning process
- understanding HR's role in concert with Line Management's role in the process
- realizing that you've got the process done - now what?
Speaker: Robert Turner
The Invisible Disability: The Challenges of Accommodating Psychological Disabilities
Mental health issues are among the most difficult to identify and address in the workplace. The disability is often "invisible" and the effect of an illness will be different for each employee. Subjective assumptions and stereotypes remain and accessing, understanding and managing medical information presents unique challenges. Discipling employee misconduct while satisfying the duty to accommodate is often a struggle for employers.
Learning Objectives:
- Get a primer on the employer's duty to accommodate psychological disabilities
- Identify what medical information an employer is entitled to and when an independent medical examination may be appropriate
- Learn how to effectively address employee behaviour where mental illness is a factor
- Explore the latest caselaw to identify what employers are doing right and where they are getting it wrong
Speaker: Colin Youngman
The Human Side of Cyber Security
You cannot read or watch the news without breaking news about breaches, hacking or other great computer based event. While the news talks about the computer and how an organization may have been hacked the Human linkage is not always front and center. Join Louise Dandonneau as she provides her insights in to the Human Side of Cyber Security and how an organization's human resources team play a more in-depth role in Cyber Security than many think.
Learning Objectives:
- What is Cyber?
- Why is it important
- What does the impact of a cyber-event look like?
- What can you do?
- How to stay informed and next steps
Speaker: Louise Dandonneau
Afternoon Breakout 2:
Ethical Leadership: What’s
the Big Deal Anyway?
Leadership is arguably one of the most researched and published topics of the last century. However, amidst increasing world social and economic uncertainty, access to information, scandals, and focus on concentration of wealth and power, the angle through which leadership is explored has evolved. Today's organizations and their leaders bear an increasingly broad level of accountability for the health of our organizations, our communities, and society. As the evolution of work continues to accelerate, fuelled by technology, the advent of social media, and the coming of age of millennials, the concept of Ethical Leadership has re-emerged as a key interest for researchers and companies alike.
In this interactive session, the speaker will draw on a psychological perspective and empirical research results to help demystify what Ethical Leadership truly means, why it is so important, and why it is never as easy to apply from the driver's seat as to onlookers.
Participants will gain:
- Increased clarity on how Ethical Leadership is defined and the conditions that have led to its popularity today.
- Awareness of the various constructs related to Ethical Leadership and the variables that mitigate its demonstration, as well as its link to positive organizational and social outcomes.
- Exposure to methods for identifying and cultivating Ethical Leadership.
Speaker: Cheddi Suddith
Employment Law 101 - Updates
In 2018, many employers made significant revisions to their workplace policies and procedures based on Bill 148's sweeping changes to Ontario's workplace laws. As a result of the election of a new government in June 2018 and the legislative reform that followed, many revised policies and procedures are no longer in-step with Ontario's statutory scheme. This session will provide participants with a broad overview of the key legislative amendments over the past year, as well as developing case law on central employment issues.
Relevant to the increasing emphasis on issues of workplace harassment, participants will also learn about the legislative requirements as well as best practices when conducting a workplace investigation.
Learning Outcomes:
In this session the participant will:
- Gain an understanding of recent updates to Ontario's workplace laws, including the Employment Standards Act, 2000, the Labour Relations Act, 1995, and the Occupational Health and Safety Act;
- Learn which changes made by Bill 148 were amended or repealed by Bill 47;
- Learn about additional changes to the statutory scheme made by Bill 66;
- Hear about the latest court and arbitration decisions on key workplace issues, such as contracts, discipline and termination, harassment, and employee entitlements; and
- Learn how to approach employee complaints of workplace harassment and gain insight on the investigation process from an experience workplace investigator
Speaker: Maureen Houston
Effectively
Managing Challenging Employees: Getting the Most out of Performance Management
and Progressive Discipline
Each day you spend 80% of your time, managing 20% of your workforce. This could range from dealing with an underperformer, to an employee who has attended work with recreational drugs, to an employee who is chronically late and/or absent from work. Attend this session to better understand the principles of performance management and progressive discipline, when to employ which, and how to optimize the process and outcome. Although the goal is always to correct the issue, this session will also assist in identifying when it is time to part way, including considering a termination for cause and/or not for cause.
Learning Outcomes:
- learn the difference between performance management and employee discipline
- understand when to performance manage and when to use your employee discipline process
- common mistakes and pitfalls in process(es) of performance management and employee discipline
- how to properly document the file so more legally defensible
- understand when to terminate for cause or not for cause
Speaker: Krista Siedlak
Closing Keynote: Activate Change Capable
Crack the "Limitless Secret" and "Unstoppable You" with insights to overcome barriers, uncertainty and fear and become the super hero you and your teams always knew they could be when in the face of change.
Learning Outcomes:
- Find out how to turn "No" into accepted counter-offers with resistant players
- Discover how to exceed uncertainties with deep capable belief and embrace possibilities when you don't know how to activate change
- Learn how to earn independence by sorting out the right lifelines fostering capability
- Understand that what you focus on grows in activating capability
Speaker: Unstoppable Tracy