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SUMMARY:From Conflict to Calm: Dealing with high-conflict behaviour in the workplace\, Victoria (In Person Event)
DESCRIPTION:Program Leader\n\n \nMichael Lomax\nMediator \n\n\nHigh-conflict behaviour is characterized by unmanaged emotions\, extreme reactions\, preoccupation with blaming others\, and prolonged\, unresolved conflict. Such behaviour not only seriously damages relationships in the workplace but also frequently results in complaints of bullying and harassment\, grievances and other legal headaches for both employers and unions. This in-depth training session will equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent high-conflict behavior from disrupting both employer and union operations and giving rise to costly litigation. \nParticipants will learn: \n\nBrain science behind high-conflict behaviour\, including current knowledge about High-Conflict Personalities (HCPs)\nPrinciples of progressive discipline and accommodation that apply to dealing with high-conflict behaviour\nStrategies for managing your own anxiety when dealing with HCPs\nApproaches to coaching HCPs to take responsibility for resolving their own conflicts in the workplace\nPractical techniques ready to be used in the workplace\, including:\nConnecting skills – using empathy\, attention and respect (E.A.R.) to communicate and build effective working\nrelationships with HCPs\nAssertion skills – using brief\, informative\, friendly\, but firm (B.I.F.F.) responses to counter misinformation or\nhostility\n\nPlease contact customerservice@lancasterhouse.com for more details. \nCPD\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR Alberta for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon  for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\n\n\n \n\nThis program has been approved by the Law Society of British Colombia for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\nThis program has been approved by the Law Society of Saskatchewan for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.
URL:https://lancasterhouse.com/event/from-conflict-to-calm-dealing-with-high-conflict-behaviour-in-the-workplace-british-columbia/
LOCATION:UVIC David Strong Building (C108)\, 3800 Finnerty Rd\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Skills Training
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SUMMARY:Supporting Employees with Mental Health Disabilities at Work: Skills training for employers and unions\, Vancouver (In Person Event)
DESCRIPTION:Program Leader\n\n \nMargaret Tebbutt\nSenior Consultant and Trainer\nWorkplace Mental Health \n\n\nProgram Faculty\n\n \nGretchen Brown\nUnion Counsel\nBritish Columbia Teachers’ Federation \n\n\n \nStephanie Vellins\nEmployer Counsel\nHarris & Co. \n\n\n \nLucette Wesley\nConsultant and Trainer\nCanadian Mental Health Association \n\n\nProgram DetailsThe Supreme Court of Canada has recognized that being able to work is essential to one’s “sense of identity\, self-worth and emotional well-being”. Yet many of the 20% of Canadian adults who experience mental illness each year must absent themselves from work\, taking a significant personal toll on the workers as well as financial and productivity burdens on employers. \nThis session is designed to prepare managers\, supervisors\, union representatives\, and other labour relations professionals to work together\, with affected workers\, to develop and maintain appropriate workplace accommodations and support that result in better outcomes for employers\, workers\, and workplaces in general. \nAt the end of this program\, participants will be able to: \n\nAppreciate the differences between medical/psychological concepts of mental health and mental disorders\, and legal concepts of disability due to psychiatric disorders;\nIdentify attitudes\, language\, behaviours and practices that perpetuate stigma;\nRecognize signs someone in the workplace may be struggling\, perhaps due to health issues\, including their mental health;\nCommunicate with employees/members who are struggling\, possibly due to mental health problems\, in a helpful\, non-threatening way;\nProvide effective\, flexible and sustainable workplace accommodations; and\nPromote psychological safety and mental well-being in the workplace\n\nCPD\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR Alberta for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon  for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\n\n\n \n\nThis program has been approved by the Law Society of British Colombia for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\nThis program has been approved by the Law Society of Saskatchewan for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.
URL:https://lancasterhouse.com/event/supporting-employees-with-mental-health-disabilities-at-work-skills-training-for-employers-and-unions-vancouver-in-person-event/
LOCATION:Robson Square campus (C680 HSBC Hall)\, 800 Robson Street\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V7Z 3B7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Skills Training
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SUMMARY:Winning Cases at the WSIB and WSIAT: A skills training session\, Toronto (In Person Event)
DESCRIPTION:Program Leaders\n\n \nSean Ryan\nVice Chair\nWorkplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal \n\n\n \nCarissa Tanzola\nEmployer Counsel\nFilion Wakely Thorup Angeletti \n\n\n \nMaryth Yachnin\nWorker Counsel\nIAVGO Community Legal Clinic \n\n\nProgram DetailsThis full-day session will provide an overview of the WSIB appeal process form receipt of an adverse board-level decision through to a WSIAT hearing. Experienced advocates will provide practical advice on crafting an effective advocacy strategy and marshalling persuasive evidence before WSIB Appeals Resolution Officers (AROs) and the WSIAT. \nEmployer and worker advocates will learn to: \n\nAppeal a board-level decision within mandated timelines\nIdentify\, sort and prioritize issues in an appeal\nDevelop a “theory of the case”\nMeet pre-hearing disclosure obligations\nObtain relevant evidence\nAnticipate and meet the other side’s arguments\nPrepare clients for hearings\nEffectively use and challenge medical information\nMake effective opening statements and final arguments\nQuestion and cross-question witnesses\n\nCPD\n\n\nThis program has been approved for 5.5 Continuing Professional Development hours under Section A3 of the Recertification Log of the Human Resources Professionals Association.\n\n\n\n\nMembers of the Law Society of Ontario may consider counting this program for 5.5 substantive hours; 0 professionalism hours.
URL:https://lancasterhouse.com/event/winning-cases-at-the-wsib-and-wsiat-a-skills-training-session-toronto-in-person-event/
LOCATION:Hart House (Music Room)\, 7 Hart House Circle\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Skills Training
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