HRPA Partnership
Programs
Williams HR Consulting partners with the Human Resources Professional Association as Subject Matter Experts to provide the best professional development programming for their HRPA members. WHRC has developed two programs to support the professional development of an HR practitioner:
Labour Relations Certificate Program
Today’s employers expect HR professionals to effectively manage within a unionized environment. Develop strategies to engage, motivate, and develop more positive labour and workplace relationships. Leverage the greater benefit of establishing and maintaining long-standing healthy relationships between managers and unionized workers. This Certificate Program is Highly Recommended for the HR practitioner who works in a unionized setting or a practitioner wishing to further develop their expertise in labour relations.
In this intensive three-day certificate program designed for HR practitioners, you will partner with your fellow HR peers using a practical simulation approach to:
- Examine the legal landscape governing labour relations.
- Review collective agreement administration and best practices in contract interpretation.
- Implement a proactive approach to engage and develop positive union-management relationships.
- Understand and navigate the collective bargaining process.
- Explore a process for conducting effective investigations to minimize risks and legal exposures.
- Become a trusted advisor and proactive, fair and objective in resolving disputes.
- Participate in hands-on simulation-based learning to develop skills to resolve grievances, conduct workplace investigations.
- Learn how to use of effective negotiation skills to create win-win scenarios when bargaining.
Why you should Attend:
- Navigate through the legal landscape and relevant labour-related legislation.
- Apply the labour relations framework and core elements for day-to-day interactions with union counterparts
- Interpret and administer the collective agreement in a fair and equitable manner ensuring productivity and consistent application
- Develop interest-based skills to diffuse positional behaviour and engage challenging parties
- Conduct effective investigations to minimize risks and legal exposures Participate with skills and confidence in all aspects of the union-management relationship
What you will Gain:
- Implement a proactive approach to engage and develop positive union-management relationships
- Understand and navigate the collective bargaining process
- Explore a process for conducting effective investigations to minimize risks and legal exposures
- Be a trusted advisor and proactive, fair and objective in resolving disputes
- Use effective negotiation skills to create win-win scenarios when bargaining
Date: Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, 2017
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Yorkville Conference Center, 150 Bloor St. W, Toronto, ON
HRPA Members: $1500 + tax
Non-Members: $1800 + tax
Qualifies for 21 CPD HOURS
Developing High-Performers through Performance Improvement
Are your employees performing at their best? How well is your performance management system working for you? Your performance management system is more than just performance appraisals. But confusion around that distinction is one of the reasons organizations get frustrated about how to manage people. The yearly appraisal process, no matter how well designed, is not enough to ensure that employees perform optimally. A performance management system needs to support and encourage the right behaviours from both the manager and employee throughout the year. In this interactive session, you will learn about performance management best practices, diagnose your own organization’s processes, and develop specific strategies and best practices to take performance management to the next level.
Learning objectives:
- Review current performance management trends, strategies, and best practices
- Identify methods to improve your organization’s approach to building high-performing talent through performance management
- Determine how to make a compelling business case to the C-Suite and/or senior management to improve your organization’s current performance management process and practices
Who should attend?
- HR professionals of all levels, people leaders or anyone involved in their organization’s performance management process.
Date: May 9, 2017
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Yorkville Conference Center, 150 Bloor St. W, Toronto, ON
HRPA Members: $495 + tax
Non-Members: $595 + tax
Qualifies for 7 CPD HOURS