From lawyer to author, pension and benefits expert Sheryl Smolkin sheds light on the benefits industry and shares how to navigate the waters of pension plans. Balancing the pros and cons between the defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, she discusses contributions, funding, and fiduciary responsibility.
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Demonstrating the impact of life-long learning, Joseph Palumbo has distinguished himself as a leading resource in career strategy. Former Chair of United Way Peel, Executive Director of the CDC at Schulich School of Business, and FCMA, Joseph Palumbo discusses the partnering of community and career leadership. Offering advice on career planning, he answers those difficult career questions – from a job seekers perspective, and also the point of view of the recruiter.
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Organizational Development Expert, Sherry Knight discusses the co-founding of her company Dimension Eleven, authoring her book Unstoppable, and her ever-popular alter ego ‘Madame L’Image’. As an HR Resource professional, she offers insight into HR trends that are impacting organizations. As a professional speaker, Sherry Knight offers her audience an opportunity to look the part of what they expect back.
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Career transitioning from lawyer to social worker, Sharon Bar-David, Trainer, Coach, and Keynoter, is all about creating engaged work environments. Discussing workplace issues and challenges, she addresses incivility, bullying, and disengagement. Summarizing her many articles written in HR Reporter, Sharon Bar-David reviews several tactics we do as employees that sabotage our own success and how we can avoid corroding our personal brand.
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Do you have a hard time finding the lighter side of life? Humor Coach, Jim Czegledi explains the importance of humor and how you can integrate it into your life. Talking about humor of all types – exaggeration, absurdities, irony, and others – he reveals the personal dimensions of humor and how we have the conscience choice to laugh. Jim Czegledi defines the five types of humor with examples of what to embrace and what to avoid.
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What’s your potential? With the unique belief that we perform best at the edge of our comfort zone, President and founder of Ignite Excellence, Suzanne Stevens, shares her company’s approach to sales and leadership training. She defines several key areas of focus such as, differentiating the sales process, establishing the relationship, and using Socio-Value Influencers. In the professional arena as well as the personal, Suzanne Stevens challenges the restrictions we place on ourselves and to get out of our own way.
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You don’t want to acquire a racehorse to pull a plow. Jack Shand, Management Consultant and President of Leader Quest – an Executive Search firm – offers insight into the competition for talent and the demand that is still to come. Jack Shand shares the issues facing not for profits today and the war for talent. He offers advice on the measurable returns on management hires, as well as the growing trend of executive movement into the not for profit.
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With the goal of infecting a billion people with the possibility virus, it’s clear that Michael Bungay-Stanier feels strongly about ‘doing great work’. Defining what ‘great work’ is, he explains the theory behind his book Do More Great Work and the plethora of free, animated videos designed to expound on this thought. A self-proclaimed sufferer of Shiny Object Syndrome, Michael Bungay-Stanier works with many micro-tribes: facilitation, speaking, writing, coaching, and on-line presence as he shares his popular topics: The 5 ¾ Questions that People Avoid, Get Unstuck and Get Going, and The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun. Designed to provide thought-provoking questions while interjecting fun and powerful tools, Michael Bungay-Stanier knows what it takes to live a powerful life, do you?
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With a focus on balance and results, leadership is a lot like riding a bicycle. Dave Crisp of Crisp Leadership Strategies discusses human resources and it’s role in tough times. Humanizing the way you manage, Dave Crisp advises on coaching as leadership and how to begin. He offers easy ways to encourage your manager to start coaching and stop ordering.
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Are you stretched too thin? President of Work Smart Live Smart, Beverly Beuermann-King discusses workplace wellness and stress management. Defining ‘stress’, she lists the signs and symptoms of critical stress levels. Balancing that with “good stress”, Beverly Beuermann-King tells us what makes it “good”. Learn the cost of stress and the impact of stress on a business, how to measure a stress reduction program, and the balance of wellness responsibility.
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Do we really need an HR department? David Weiss, author of Innovative Intelligence, and CEO and President of Weiss International, discusses Leadership and the role of HR. He shares his expertise on how to overcome the leadership gap, and the difference between strategy and culture.
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What do you not see about yourself that’s impacting your future? Leaving a long list of successful corporate positions, Ian Cook founded Fulcrum Associates and began a successful organization focusing on improving senior leadership roles. Discussing the unique challenges of being a facilitator, Ian Cook reveals how facilitating works in meetings and team building, and what that role can do for your organization.
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Looking for ways to achieve engagement? Kathleen Redmond, President of the Centre for Character Leadership, discusses collaboration, engagement, and conflict reduction. Defining what engagement is, Kathleen Redmond shares how we can achieve it in an organization. Revealing disengagement across generations, and its question of reversibility, she digs deeper into the issue giving insight to problem areas.
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Do you respond well to others’ behavior? Do you gain repeat business because people enjoy working with you? Lea Brovedani, an expert in Emotional Intelligence, shares her 12+ years of research and experience in the field and explains how we have the ability to change. Defining what Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is, Lea Brovedani talks about how to recognize, use, understand, and manage emotions. She shares ways to create the best outcomes in life and how to use your emotions effectively. Discussing changing behaviour, she shares how the change happens, and how you can make it happen faster.
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People can’t talk about change without using the f-word: fear. From psychotherapist to executive coach and expert in change, Peggy Grall discusses change and transition and the lessons she brings from her own experience in change. Speaking on dealing with organizational change, she offers tactics for onboarding in a new position, connecting quickly to your new team, and how to create great supporters. Using current events and examples, Peggy Grall explains communication change, crisis change, and how she uses ‘Transition Poker’ to practice skills in managing change.
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Weaving together sales, management, and communications, Brian Dalzell, CEO of The Performance Advantage Inc, discusses the blending of facilitation and consulting. Answering such questions as, how can I integrate training? What is the impact on my business? And how do I position training in my organization? He shares how to get a better return on your training, and the use of training interventions.
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