Webinar Recordings

Focus on how to go through that process of finding your three procrastination partners and teaching you all to work together.

Staying stuck and feeling trapped is not your only option when you are unhappy in your work. You also know that to move out of your current rut will take some courage on your part. The way to find courage and lose your fear to act is to think about who would benefit from your courageous action.

Bosses can be difficult to read and communicate with. The temptation is to assign blame or participate in gossip – but neither of those behaviours help either in the short or long term. So if you are dealing with a difficult boss or suspect you may be one, this is for you!

It is no secret that many workplaces make it difficult to speak up or to show your worth. Decision-makers have biases that interfere with seeing their employees for who they really are. Does that mean you should keep your head down and secretly hope to get noticed? Absolutely not! Learn to focus on strategies that gets you noticed and have your voice heard in a way that will advance rather than disadvantage your career growth.

Knowing how to launch, develop and pivot your engineering/geoscience career is essential in today’s volatile economy. We know that most people will have between 4-5 career shifts during their working life. Whatever the shift required to respond to the changing economic realities, there are certain career building and maintenance skills you need to be successful.

Learn how to identify and avoid typical workplace communications traps with people from a variety of cultures and generations. Get from “yes boss” to “these are the steps I took to solve the problem” by making sure you pick up on the right clues, ask the right questions and use the right process to check for understanding.

Contingency planning for a pandemic that could go on indefinitely is a must for employers and managers. This masterclass covers four essentials for contingency planning that will help businesses and managers mitigate risk and stay agile.

Sometimes you find a tool that is golden for management. In this session you will get two of them! You will learn how to use two practical management tools: 10 check-in questions to ask your team, and four story archetypes you never knew you had!

Wondering if you are more of a manager or a leader? Or both? This masterclass talks about the characteristics and skills of managers and leaders to help you know when to manage and when to lead.

Wondering how to get into your workplace power? This masterclass teaches three tools to self awareness that can help you get clear about your strengths, your capacities and your effect on others. Use it to build your career, your business or your relationships! Learn how coaching can help you get to your goals faster and more effectively as you practice these three self-awareness exercises.

Learn how to sustain operations, manage workers to work from home, organization restructure including temporary layoffs, deal with employee anxiety, help employers and employees cope with uncertainty, and understand how to work effectively in remote, constrained environments.

Managing virtual teams doesn’t have to fill you with dread. You can be relaxed and confident with a few tools and tips under your manager belt.

What is the biggest personal obstacle to leading effectively? Confidence! We have 3 experts sharing their confidence-building wisdom to help us all manage and lead with confidence.

This session is about finding your career path, setting goals and a road map to make sure you get to your ultimate goal. Not the planning type? Wondering what to do if you like to be open to career opportunities that come up unexpectedly? I will look at both the planned and the unexpected and how to leverage them both for career success.

This practical session will show you three typical inner obstacles that happen to people when they are faced with uncertainty or fear, and what can be done to overcome them.

Barbilee believes we do not manage time, we can only manage our activities.
She firmly asserts that since everyone has the same 86,400 seconds in a day, it is what we do with them that makes us successful or not.

There’s more than one way to light the fire of collaborative engagement on your team! This training will show you a new approach for team capacity building that combines the power of diagnostics and leadership training to build individual and group competency.

Bullying is a huge workplace problem. In Canada we now have legislation to deal with it. This session has tips about what you can do about workplace bullying, whether you are an employee, a manager or an employer.

There are several ways to look at and solve workplace conflict. This mini-training will show you how to use three of them and provide some insights into how to when to use them and what pieces to apply depending on the context.

How did Vahid Rashidi secure engineering work in a depressed Alberta economy? Hear about his career trajectory in the interview.

Learn how to create a goal you can stick to and how to change your to-do list to a success list. Just think how satisfied and accomplished you will feel when you can master this life-changing skill.

Find out how to see, understand and negotiate your role in the politics of your workplace and come with incidents and questions to contribute.

How to change from reacting to stress to using stress’ energy effectively in one’s workplace, relationships and life overall.

Gain new insights into how to find, keep and develop new talent from diverse populations and how to get started with helping your existing workforce to be welcoming so everyone feels like they belong.

Learn how to position yourself to be found, what the typical Canadian employer expectations for hiring are, and how to start accessing the hidden job market where most of the jobs are.

He found that the skills he had in math were useful for supply chain management so he decided to investigate the industry as a possible career route. To avoid being stuck in a survival level job, he was very strategic about his search.

Learn how to make micro-corrections that help you be understood and bring you closer to your career goals. Don’t sabotage your career with pronunciation that confuses colleagues, managers and decision makers!

Cultural conflict is something many of us face in our increasingly diverse workplace. This webinar will show you what the western and cultural conflict styles are and how to use them both to negotiate tricky situations, decrease misunderstandings and reduce hard feelings when misunderstandings become conflicts.

INNOVERSITY – it’s the intersection of innovation, diversity, and creativity. Learn how diversity on your team can be your organization’s greatest asset and get some ideas on what you can do to optimize that resource.`

Join Gerard Keledjian and Marie as they talk about what immigrating to a new country is REALLY like – Gerard’s done it 3 times – and what newcomers can do to establish themselves professionally in their new context.

Join Ada Tai, HR professional, and Marie Gervais, Work and Culture specialist, as they teach you how to strategize for career growth in a Canadian context. Learn from the perspective of a newcomer AND an employer to determine…

Annoyance, defined as persistent patterns of distracting and irritating behaviour is costly to the workplace! ! Ilene Marcus of Aligned Workplace shares helpful tips on how to manage yourself and others when annoyance is cutting down…

Alyson Connolly, speech and public speaking coach shows how you can clarify your voice and speaking style, pay attention to saying certain vowel sounds using a Canadian accent, and use authoritative body language to help people

Cultural conflict is something many of us face in our increasingly diverse workplace. This webinar will show you what the western and cultural conflict styles are and how to use them both to negotiate tricky situations, decrease misunderstandings and reduce hard feelings when misunderstandings become conflicts.

You ABSOLUTELY need to present yourself with confidence 100% of the time (or at least 98%)…Learn how to “up” your confidence factor in this webinar.

Tom Borg explains how to improve your communication generally and in the workplace by focusing on eliminating communication barriers, focusing on the style and needs of the other person and by consciously improving your listening and speaking strategies.

Looking to find ways to improve your job and company searches on LinkedIn? Tips and strategies that have proven results are featured in this webinar.

Good news! You don’t need to change your personality to network – just follow these practical networking strategies to make sure your networking gets you real leads and helps you meet your goals.

Did you know there are two sides to finding work? If you don’t align the outer strategy with the inner one, you are likely to end up dissatisfied frustrated even when you do find a job. Watch this video to learn how to clarify what you really want.

By tapping into the immigrant talent pool, many Central Alberta employers have found a way to keep growing even when the economy is shaky. From their experiences we have built a FREE tool for employers to use to help them hire and retain immigrant employees.

Find out the necessary steps to make the most out of every networking opportunity for finding work and building your professional network.

Don’t be discouraged by job rejections! Here are useful strategies for you to turn job rejections into opportunities and tips on how to stay positive when you receive a job rejection.

In this presentation you will find out what to do while you are still in school to build your professional network, get known in your field and where the doors into the hidden job market can be found.

Tema Frank explains the three P’s of profit: People, process and promise as she explains the highlights from her new book, People Shock.

Tom Borg explains how to hone in on customer service, seeing employees and customers as clients, and why it matters to a company bottom line.

This webinar will walk you through several intercultural conflict stories to discover both the cultural conflict styles behind the issues, and strategies to more successfully solve intercultural conflicts.

We all know that the labour market has been shifting with increased speed and right under our feet. This webinar session will explore the reasons behind these shifts in order to propel our careers in new and rewarding directions. Supply Chain & Logistics

When we asked Canadian employers what they found the most confusing about today’s workforce, they overwhelmingly said, “understanding how to work with religion in the workplace”. Fortunately for all of us, there is a way out of the confusion!

Stephane explains his personal journey of entrepreneurship, some useful tools he found along the way and compares cultural differences for business between Canada and France.