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8:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration and Networking Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
9:15 am – 10:00 am
Opening Keynote: How Inspired Personal Growth Can Enhance your Role at Work
- How upbringing impacted my career
- Understanding the role of emotional intelligence, and self-awareness
- Helping eagles sore – starting from within
- Waking up to your own power
- Building and sustaining healthy relationships
10:00 am – 10:20 am
Networking Refreshment Break
10:20 am – 12:30 pm
True Colours – Understanding Yourself and Others
In this interactive workshop, True Colors® helps individuals learn how to bring out the best in themselves and each other, and to communicate effectively. Participants will learn how each person’s primary color – and a representation of all colors – is important to the team’s success. The agenda will include:
- Introduction to True Colors®
- Determining your true color
- Understanding your primary color and true color spectrum
- A group activity which showcases the characteristics of the 4 primary True Colors®
- Exploring how to keep this learning alive
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Networking Luncheon
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Excel
- Format a spreadsheet
- Work with flash fill, formulas and charts
- Work with multiple sheets
- Work with tables and PivotTables
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Networking Refreshment Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Word
- Work with and create styles and quick parts.
- Protect, revise and review your documents.
- Create forms
- Use Mail Merge
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Closing Remarks from the Chair
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration and Networking Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
9:15 am – 10:00 am
Opening Keynote: My Goal Achieving Journey
- Being guided by sacred knowledge
- Goal setting that started as admin assistant with First Nations Health Authority
- Being of service to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Helping UBC’s goals of reconciliation
- Committing to personal and professional development – what this looks like to me
- Overcoming roadblocks
- Strategies that work for my goal achieving journey
10:00 am – 10:20 am
Networking Refreshment Break
10:20 am – 11:20 am
Maximizing Your Influence at Work
- My personal journey into maximizing my influence at work
- What influence at work looks like to me
- Making emotional connections
- Being curious
- Understanding body language
- Assess the role of story-telling
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
Next-Level Project Management
- Learn to manage your projects more effectively
- Get a better understanding of project management competencies
- Technical skills and functional knowledge
- Business management and soft skills
- Personality traits
- CASE STUDY: Lessons learned from a full lifecycle of one of my projects
12:20 pm – 1:30 pm
Networking Luncheon
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Improve Workplace Communications: Face to Face and Digital
- Building authentic relationships
- Creating a communication friendly place
- Master your body language
- Personalize your communications
- Taking time to listen
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Networking Refreshment Break
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Closing Keynote: Plotting your Goal Achieving Journey
Through this experiential workshop, you will better understand the connection between visioning and goals, and how to make goals into reality.
- Goal setting through visualization
- Choosing courage over comfort
- Future focused vs solution focused
- Goals are a process, not an outcome
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm