Month: February 2019

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BUILDING & MANAGING a CULTURALLY DIVERSE WORKFORCE | March 01, 2019

BUILDING & MANAGING a CULTURALLY DIVERSE WORKFORCE || A Conversation with Marie Gervais ||

Friday March 01, 2019

Location: Orange Room, The Business Link, Suite #500, 10150 – 100 St. || Time: 10:00am to 12:00 noon

Admission: a $10.00 donation

RSVP by February 28 to: leocamposa@gmail.com (or) call 780.474.6058.

About: Marie Gervais, CEO of Shift Management, believes that a happy workplace is a profitable one. She has been helping industry hone leadership skill and improve productivity for over 10 years with online supervisory leadership courses|coaching. Her mission is to help technical people moving up from operations to management learn the people & decision-making skills they need to lead and reach their business goals. She is also a member of Wayfinders Business Cooperative © and we are honoured to have Marie illuminate these key challenges in a transforming city.

– Sponsored by: Wayfinders Business Cooperative ©

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Wayfinding the Moving Target Future

Decision, decisions… decision fatigue!
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2019
  • 6 PM to 8 PM
  • Ricky’s All Day Grill (back room) , 109 Street and Jasper Avenue
  • Plenty of free parking

The future is moving target. A lot of people are feeling stressed about the uncertain future. As self-employed and entrepreneurs, how can you prepare to do your best work and get the rewards you deserve?
Where are the trends leading us? What forces are driving these trends? Why should we care? What happens if we do nothing? As self-employed and entrepreneurs, how do we need to prepare?
Randal Adcock will share some of the ideas he’s working on for a new book about the future. Then we’ll open for discussion.

Points on Trends and Responses:
• Transformative Innovation – Reframe, re-engineer, redefine yourself and your personal potential
• AI and Automation – Small business digital transformation to magnify, amplify and multiple your valued talents
• Outsourcing – Gig work opportunities and how to surf the learning curve
• Competing with larger corporations – Smart collaboration teams with diverse talents
• Accelerating Change – Agile prototype everything, test and scale up
• Exponential Growth of Civil Complexity – Focus, simplify, and specialize but also be an informed generalist
• Extreme everything – Remember sufficient action, balance, moderation, chi