SCNetwork - Upcoming Events

CALGARY REGION EVENT: Ignite Innovation! The Art of Turning Ideas Into Action (and Science) - 3/30/2010 - Enbridge Leadership Forum located on the 18th Floor - North Elevator Bank in Fifth Avenue Place, East Tower, 425 - 1st St. S.W.

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Ignite Innovation! The Art of Turning Ideas Into Action (and Science)

EVENT DATE: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
TIME:7:30:00 AM to 9:00:00 AM
SCNETWORK REGION: Calgary
VENUE:Enbridge Leadership Forum located on the 18th Floor - North Elevator Bank in Fifth Avenue Place, East Tower, 425 - 1st St. S.W.
SPEAKER(s):David Saxby
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=238

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Innovative thinking is the heart of every individuals' and organizations' success. You, your co-workers and your clients, often have great ideas. How can you grow them, harvest and implement the best ones?

Discover the 5 I's of Innovation: Inspiration, Incubation, Illumination, Invest and Implement - learn how to increase personal and group idea generation and productivity, improve problem solving, and how to make decisions easily and effectively...turning ideas into results. For many of us the challenge is in communicating ideas effectively, capturing them, evaluating the best ideas and then setting a plan for action. Innovation is simply the art of implementing creative ideas.

Ignite Innovation! combines lessons from David Saxby's expertise as a creative director, in the advertising world, with his leadership insights from over 30 years as an entrepreneur and business leader. David delivers entertaining, upbeat, content-rich presentations that include practical "how-to's" audiences can implement immediately.

Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Time: 7:30 - 9:00 AM

Place: Enbridge Learning Forum, 18th Floor, 425 - 1 Street SW, Calgary

Cost: SCN Members: Free Non-Members: $30 + GST

To register for this event, visit our website at www.scnetwork.ca or leave a message at 403.217.2989.

This event is Bullfrogpowered.

SPEAKER BIO(s):
A professional speaker for over 20 years, David Saxby is an expert in creativity and innovation. A former, award winning, Creative Director and President of a leading western Canadian marketing firm, David Saxby has 30 years of in-the-trenches experience in the area of creativity and innovation. David grew his first business from a one-man creative boutique to a 20-person full service marketing firm. The success of that firm was the result of an innovative business strategy. Today, David is the President of Spark Communications Inc.

As a speaker David has traveled the globe for over 20 years, delivering presentations to a wide range of industries including: beverage and liquor, communications, real estate, the energy sector, transportation, manufacturing, media and marketing, professional services, government and numerous associations including: PCMA (Professional Meetings and Conventions Association). Recently he was the keynote speaker at the Association for Fundraising Professionals Western Conference.

David is a co-author of four books, Customer Service Goldmine, Sales Gurus Speak Out and Quantum Success and Foundational Success. He is a Past Chair of Small Business Week for the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, a founding Board Member and Past-President of the Calgary Chapter, and a Past National Director of CAPS (the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers).

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TORONTO REGION EVENT: Getting Recognition Right: Putting a Strategic Focus on Employee Recognition Practices and Programs - 3/31/2010 - The National Club

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Getting Recognition Right: Putting a Strategic Focus on Employee Recognition Practices and Programs

EVENT DATE: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
TIME:7:30:00 AM to 9:30:00 AM
SCNETWORK REGION: Toronto
VENUE:The National Club
SPEAKER(s):Roy Saunderson (President, Recognition Management Institute) and Elvie Gee (Johnson & Johnson Medical Products)
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=229

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
If you don't know where you are going any old recognition program or practice will get you there. You need to know the direction you're going in to make employee recognition successful. WorldatWork surveyed members on employee recognition trends and discovered only 48% of companies actually have a written recognition strategy. Our own research in the public sector found only 52% of managers saying their recognition strategies were really effective.

To produce the bottom-line results you want and create a culture of appreciation, you must become more strategic with employee recognition by designing a recognition strategy which does the following:

�         Articulates your philosophy around recognition

�         States your company's purpose for rewards and recognition, and

�         Spells out a clear plan to guide everything you do with recognition practices and programs.

By aligning recognition to your business goals and people strategies, managers will finally have a powerful tool with recognition to assist them in achieving these goals. In this way your recognition strategy can be owned by everyone and not just by Human Resources.

In this insightful presentation Roy Saunderson, President of the Recognition Management Institute and author of GIVING the Real Recognition Way, will outline the key factors and a process tool for making a recognition strategy, the essential steps for ease of implementation of a recognition plan, and best practice ideas to adopt in your organization.

In addition, Elvie Gee, Director of HR for Johnson & Johnson Medical Products, will share their evolution in creating an effective recognition strategy, the education and communication supports they have created, and the impact these initiatives have had on their recognition practices and programs.

SPEAKER BIO(s):

Roy Saunderson founded the Recognition Management Institute in 1996, as a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic employee recognition practices and programs. He is a Certified Recognition Professional from Recognition Professionals International, the industry association for practitioners in employee recognition. He earned a Bachelors of Arts from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit and has a background in business and healthcare. Roy has presented to and consulted with private and public sector organizations throughout North America and in Europe including AEP, Bell Canada, Boeing, Credit Suisse, Disney, Health Canada, 3M Canada, and the Treasury Board. His focus is on showing leaders how to give real recognition to create positive relationships in the workplace. The Recognition Management Institute's is based in Montreal, Quebec and has consultants in Canada and the United States.

Elvie Gee is Human Resources Director at Johnson & Johnson Medical Products (JJMP. She has held progressive Human Resources roles over the past 15 years across various sectors including the aerospace, hi-tech and healthcare industries. She is a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) and a graduate of Concordia University. Elvie has played an integral role in various company-wide initiatives over the past 2 years from the revitalizing recognition in the Operations division, to leading the launch of the engagement initiatives across JJMP and Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson Company. Johnson & Johnson Medical Products, a division of Johnson & Johnson Inc., (JJMP) markets and distributes Medical Devices and Diagnostic solutions for use in institutional and primary health care settings across Canada. JJMP is located in Markham, Ontario.

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OTTAWA REGION EVENT: Privacy and Social Networking - 3/31/2010 - Export Development Canada Offices

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Privacy and Social Networking

EVENT DATE: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
TIME:11:45:00 AM to 2:00:00 PM
SCNETWORK REGION: Ottawa
VENUE:Export Development Canada Offices
SPEAKER(s):Colin MacKay
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=241

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Colin McKay is a public policy professional with 15 years experience researching, interpreting and communicating complex economic and social policy issues to diverse audiences. He has significant experience evangelizing social media technologies and philosophies, including their implementation.

As Director of Research, Education and Outreach at the office of the Privacy Commission, he and his team work on simple solutions that encourage Canadians to really think about how their identify is shaped by their own actions, by the intervention of the state, and through everyday interaction with commercial organizations. They look to research in sociology, law, technology and economics to anticipate challenges to the privacy rights of Canadians � they also do really cool stuff with social media.

Mr. McKay has been blogging since 2003, and is the author of the popular blog Canuckflack, now on Twitter.

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TORONTO REGION EVENT: Management is Broken: HR's Role in Fixing It - 4/14/2010 - The National Club

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST

Management is Broken: HR's Role in Fixing It

EVENT DATE: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
TIME:7:30:00 AM to 9:30:00 AM
SCNETWORK REGION: Toronto
VENUE:The National Club
SPEAKER(s):Dr. Tom Tavares
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=236

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

We have seen widespread breakdowns in the internal controls of corporations and regulatory agencies. Domestic auto makers have hit the wall, and the financial services industry has crashed. A 2009 study by the Corporate Leadership Council showed that highly disengaged employees who would work against their company rose from 7% to 21% while 25% of high potential staff planned to leave their firm within the next year. Management is broken.

Not surprisingly, business leaders are being inundated with techniques for managing the pressures building on them and their organizations. Among other things they are being asked to explore vision, emotional intelligence, change management, culture, learning organizations, and employee empowerment.

Unfortunately, none of these approaches has had a lasting impact on management.
Because HR and consultants play an active role in the dialogue with management about these issues, when behaviour fails to change, their credibility suffers. In reality, there is a gap in our understanding about how people behave at work, which has led to a systemic flaw in managing organizations. As a result, institutions are breaking down with increasing frequency as the pace and complexity of change increase.

In his new book, THE MIND FIELD, Dr. Tom Tavares cuts through the noise and clears the path to performance. Behaviour can change. In this highly, interactive session, Dr. Tavares will cover

1.) Recognizing the systemic flaw in management: impact on HR.

2.) What we know about organizational behavior.

3.) What we don't know about organizational behavior.

4.) The five stages of implementation for fixing management.

5.) Implications for HR.

SPEAKER BIO(s):

Dr. Tom Tavares is an organizational psychologist who brings a wealth of experience to his work. After serving in Vietnam, he earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley before completing his doctorate at York University. He forged his ideas in the 1980's working inside oil companies undergoing restructuring, downsizing, and mergers. For the past two decades, he has consulted to companies in a broad range of industries - pharmaceuticals, packaged goods, manufacturing, banking, technology, and insurance.

His book, THE MIND FIELD: WHAT'S MISSING IN RUNNING OUR ORGANIZATIONS, was published last October by Carswell. It represents three decades of hands-on experience and research distilled from 50 organizations and 500 senior leadership profiles.

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CALGARY REGION EVENT: From Huh? to HOT and Back Again (Higher Order Thinking) - 4/27/2010 - Enbridge Leadership Forum

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST

From Huh? to HOT and Back Again (Higher Order Thinking)

EVENT DATE: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
TIME:7:30:00 AM to 9:00:00 AM
SCNETWORK REGION: Calgary
VENUE:Enbridge Leadership Forum
SPEAKER(s):Bernie Novokowsky
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=237

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Cribbing Dr. Phil's oft-used question, Dr. Bernie asks "So, how's your thinking working for you?"

Higher Order Thinking (HOT) is both a commitment, and a system of frameworks and practices, to being and doing better. It is founded on an underlying premise that our thinking drives our behaving, which in turn determines our degree of achievements and quality of life - or a suboptimal lack thereof. A key derivative premise follows from this causal chain. If we want better productivity, better success, better quality of life, or better whatever, then we need to exercise better, or higher order thinking.

In this thought-provoking session, Bernie looks to involve members in organizing, ordering, and orchestrating their thinking better. To do so, he will provide an introductory overview to some fundamental HOT elements. He will also provide an exemplar of one HOT framework that has relevance for higher strategy, greater power, more choices for change, plus other utility. As well, you can expect a few immediate "take aways" of pragmatic value, which is a key tenet of HOT.

Bernie finds it interesting that most people can provide better explanations on how they organize information on their hard drive, stuff in the garage, clothes in the closet than they can explain how they organize the thoughts in their minds - and even less of an explanation on their means of ordering them. So, time to get better organized and higher ordered?

Hence, you are invited to join in the session and spend a few minutes thinking about your thinking and how it is working (or not) for you.

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Time: 7:30 - 9:00 AM

Place: Enbridge Learning Forum, 18th Floor, 425 - 1 Street SW, Calgary

Cost: SCN Members: Free Non-Members; $30 + GST

To register for this event, visit our website at www.scnetwork.ca or leave a message to 403.217.2989.

This event is Bullfrogpowered.

SPEAKER BIO(s):

Bernie Novokowsky is the founder of Novokowsky Consulting Group. Bernie has a Master of Arts in Organization Development and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems -- both from The Fielding Graduate University (USA). Bernie's clients range from large multi-national companies to small business operations and individuals in many different industries.

Bernie is a co-author of the successful book "Creating Paths of Change" (1993, 1997), which has been a required text for Transition/Change management seminars at the University of Calgary and at the Banff School of Management. Bernie is also the author of a chapter in the recently published book "Transformative Phenomenology: Changing Ourselves, Lifeworlds, and Professional Practice" (2008).

Bernie's first career was in the Canadian army; he then practiced leadership in the corporate sector as a Team Leader of Organizational Effectiveness in a mid-sized oil company. In the last 18 years, in now his third career, he remains a leader in consulting practices, as well as in his volunteerism.

Over the last 18 years, Bernie has presented at numerous conferences, focusing on helping organizations survive and thrive in today's business environment.

Bernie focuses on applying "Higher Order Thinking" (HOT) frameworks for designing and implementing better organizational (and personal life) work practices, systems, and outcomes. His HOT schema emerged as a result of his doctoral research and practitioner experience into personal/professional power. After a three year hiatus with cancer, Bernie is continuing his practitioner-scholar research, development, and consulting of pragmatic "higher orders".

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TORONTO REGION EVENT: Focus 2040: The Future World of Work - 5/6/2010 - The National Club

Thu, 6 May 2010 00:00:00 EST

Focus 2040: The Future World of Work

EVENT DATE: Thursday, May 06, 2010
TIME:5:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM
SCNETWORK REGION: Toronto
VENUE:The National Club
SPEAKER(s):Enter the speaker here
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=240

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Focus 2040 is a competition challenging students in business faculties across Canada to describe the world of work in the year 2040. Participants predict the future as they imagine it- the worker, the organization and the processes that bring these two together- and then support their predicions.

The most imaginative, creative and compelling predictions will win.

Come hear 4 of the top 10 students as they present and discuss their ideas on the what the world of work will be like when they are the leaders of our businesses, communities and countries.

SPEAKER BIO(s):
Enter the speaker bio here.

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TORONTO REGION EVENT: The Importance of Values Through Crisis - 5/20/2010 - The National Club

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 EST

The Importance of Values Through Crisis

EVENT DATE: Thursday, May 20, 2010
TIME:7:30:00 AM to 9:30:00 AM
SCNETWORK REGION: Toronto
VENUE:The National Club
SPEAKER(s):Jeannette Jones, VP, Communications, Maple Leaf Foods
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=233

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Jeanette Jones will detail Maple Leaf Foods' decisive action plan in managing its response to the Listeriosis crisis in the summer of 2008. Jeanette will share what guided the Company's response to the Listeria outbreak and recalling products, including its entrenched corporate values. Areas to be covered include accepting responsibility and being accountable, focusing on the facts, public education and clear and candid communications.

Maple Leaf Foods is a leading food processing company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company employs approximately 24,000 people at its operations across Canada, and in the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia. It had sales of $5.2 billion in 2008. For more information, viist the company website at www.mapleleaf.com or its food safety blog at http://blog.mapleleaf.com. .

SPEAKER BIO(s):
Jeanette Jones joined Maple Leaf Foods in June 2003 as Director of Communications. Since joining the Company, she has been actively engaged in supporting communication initiatives at the corporate level as well as across the business units. Jeanette has no shortage of variety in her regular workday, supporting communications activities ranging from change management, investor relations, crisis and issues management, as well as public relations. As part of the small corporate communications team, Jeanette has benefited through rich learning experiences such as her work on the Schneiders acquisition, CEO/CFO certification, Maple Leaf's protein restructuring and most recently, the Bartor Road recall. She was promoted to Vice President, Communications in January 2009.

Prior to joining Maple Leaf Foods, Jeanette worked for a leading public relations agency in Toronto counselling professional and financial services clients including Deloitte & Touche, Franklin Templeton Investments, Citibank Canada, Rogers AT&T Wireless, Air New Zealand and Club Med. Her previous experience includes positions with Polaroid Canada, Fanshawe Community College and Drake International. Jeanette began her public relations career with Hilton Hotels in Melbourne, Australia.

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CALGARY REGION EVENT: Watch for details - 5/25/2010 - Enbridge Leadership Forum located on the 18th Floor - North Elevator Bank in Fifth Avenue Place, East Tower, 425 - 1st St. S.W.

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 EST

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EVENT DATE: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
TIME:7:30:00 AM to 9:00:00 AM
SCNETWORK REGION: Calgary
VENUE:Enbridge Leadership Forum located on the 18th Floor - North Elevator Bank in Fifth Avenue Place, East Tower, 425 - 1st St. S.W.
SPEAKER(s):
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=239

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TORONTO REGION EVENT: Annual Golf Tournament - 6/23/2010 - Glen Eagle Golf & Country Club Highway 50, Bolton

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST

Annual Golf Tournament

EVENT DATE: Wednesday, June 23, 2010
TIME:12:00:00 PM to 9:00:00 PM
SCNETWORK REGION: Toronto
VENUE:Glen Eagle Golf & Country Club Highway 50, Bolton
SPEAKER(s):
REGISTRATION LINK: https://secure.scnetwork.ca/default.asp?id=1271&event_id=234

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Full discription of this event will be posted shortly.

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SCNetwork - Upcoming Events

CALGARY REGION EVENT: Ignite Innovation! The Art of Turning Ideas Into Action (and Science) - 3/30/2010 - Enbridge Leadership Forum located on the 18th Floor - North Elevator Bank in Fifth Avenue Place, East Tower, 425 - 1st St. S.W.

Ignite Innovation! The Art of Turning Ideas Into Action (and Science)

TORONTO REGION EVENT: Getting Recognition Right: Putting a Strategic Focus on Employee Recognition Practices and Programs - 3/31/2010 - The National Club

Getting Recognition Right: Putting a Strategic Focus on Employee Recognition Practices and Programs

OTTAWA REGION EVENT: Privacy and Social Networking - 3/31/2010 - Export Development Canada Offices

Privacy and Social Networking

TORONTO REGION EVENT: Management is Broken: HR's Role in Fixing It - 4/14/2010 - The National Club

Management is Broken: HR's Role in Fixing It

CALGARY REGION EVENT: From Huh? to HOT** and Back Again (**Higher Order Thinking) - 4/27/2010 - Enbridge Leadership Forum

From Huh? to HOT** and Back Again (**Higher Order Thinking)

TORONTO REGION EVENT: Focus 2040: The Future World of Work - 5/6/2010 - The National Club

Focus 2040: The Future World of Work

TORONTO REGION EVENT: The Importance of Values Through Crisis - 5/20/2010 - The National Club

The Importance of Values Through Crisis

CALGARY REGION EVENT: Watch for details - 5/25/2010 - Enbridge Leadership Forum located on the 18th Floor - North Elevator Bank in Fifth Avenue Place, East Tower, 425 - 1st St. S.W.

Watch for details

TORONTO REGION EVENT: Annual Golf Tournament - 6/23/2010 - Glen Eagle Golf & Country Club Highway 50, Bolton

Annual Golf Tournament

CALGARY REGION EVENT: From Huh? to HOT and Back Again (Higher Order Thinking) - 4/27/2010 - Enbridge Leadership Forum

From Huh? to HOT and Back Again (Higher Order Thinking)