Business Guide
How-To Guide for Business offers step-by-step instruction for preparing your workplace for a prosperous and sustainable future.
Download your free copy of the Tomorrow’s Workplace Guide for Business
TOMORROW’S WORKPLACE BUSINESS GUIDE
Community Guide
Enjoy a Community Guide of the project scope and context for your Community/Business project.
Learn how community services and business can collaborate to enhance the workplace and integrate diversity in a variety of contexts.
Download your Free copy of the Community Guide For Tomorrow’s Workplace.
Facilitators Guide
Chambers and HR Consultants: Enjoy a Power Point Presentation of the project scope and context for your Business/Community project.
Tomorrow’s Workplace projcet was driven by the needs of business owners and revealed:
- * the importance of addressing priorities identified by the business
- * levaraging workforce diversity
* the importance of partnership with community and employment service providers to improve the competitive edge
Diversity is the new competitive advangtage for sustainable business. Rethink, reshape and renew your business community.
Download your free Tomorrow’s Workplace Overview Presentation. Learn the scope of the project and what is needed to initiate your community/workplace/business collaborative model.
Research Guide
Enjoy an extensive Literature Review of the project scope and context for your Business/Community project.
Download your free copy of Tomorrow’s Workplace Literature Review
PRESS RELEASE – BUSINESS GUIDE TO BE LAUNCHED
AWARD WINNING BUSINESSES MODEL FOR TOMORROW’S WORKPLACE
A Party to Celebrate Collaboration, Community and Business Success
Following 18 months of research, consultation with business leaders, workshops, seminars, conferences and surveys, and in collaboration with leaders in HR, Best Business Practices, Diversity and Community Development, the Tomorrow’s Workplace team unveils the GUIDE FOR BUSINESS LEADERS: Business – People – Community – Diversity, at a launch event on May 20, 2010 at the Sheraton Hotel, Surrey, BC (Guildford). Festivities begin at 4:30 pm and conclude by 7:30 pm.
The Canadian workforce is changing significantly, with the gradual retirement of the Boomer generation. Baby Boomers represent 40% of the workforce in North America, and business leaders are now looking at a new workforce model that includes diversity of age, ethnicity, physical disability, and gender.
New expectations in the workplace will have a profound effect on the longevity and sustainability of Canadian small and medium sized business. Factors include:
• Workers in their forties are caring for aging parents,
• Adult children often still live at home,
• Boomers are increasingly caring for grandchildren.
• Cultural distinctions require flexibility in family care, benefit selections, meal provisions and holiday extensions.
• Educated and highly trained young adults are seeking employment that fits around individuality and personal goals.
Tomorrow’s Workplace has worked with businesses in the Surrey area to learn, educate and collaborate in an effort to identify changes that are needed to create a high performing workplace, and develop effective methods for managing change in our business culture.
The event includes: an early evening of networking, short educational presentations, brief informative stories from local business leaders, live music, complimentary appetizers (cash bar), exhibits from Community Employment Service Providers, door prizes and a gift copy of the Tomorrow’s Workplace Guide for Business for each guest.
Admission is complimentary, but pre-registration is required. Please call
Heather at the Surrey Board of Trade at 604.581.7130 – or register online
Learn more about the Tomorrow’s Workplace Project
CONTACT: Bill Beatty FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Telephone: 604.866.2203
Email: Bill Beatty [bill.seni2@telus.net]
Background Information:
Tomorrow’s Workplace; funded by the Canada – BC Labor Market Agreement, Western Economic Diversification Canada, and Coast Capital Savings, is the brainchild of S.U.C.C.E.S.S, a Vancouver based multicultural training and service organization. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. partnered with the Surrey Board of Trade, Simon Fraser University , and Kwantlen Polytechnic University to research, and document the face of employment in BC and its relationship to privately owned small enterprise in the next decade and beyond.
The project assists Greater Vancouver area businesses through a series of business analysis and constructive consultation exercises, including: a 360-degree view of operations, financial plans and marketing/sales structures, clarity of mission, vision and values, employee workplace design and human resources strategy, and community service connections and effectiveness. Finally, the process is video documented for future study by Simon Fraser University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Surrey Employment Service Providers Empowered
Have you been challenged to reach the decision makers in your Employer organizations?
- Do you find yourself frustrated when your calls aren’t returned?
- Find yourself hesitating or resisting picking up the phone to make a call because you are tired of hearing ‘no thanks’.
- Do you hear ” no thanks, we’re not hiring right now” or, ” we have our own process for handling that, but thanks – why don’t you just send me a brochure?”
- Has someone said….”Gee, don’t you people ever talk to each other? We just had a call from someone else today about exactly the same thing!”
Join Us and Learn How to Turn the Tables
If you answered ‘yes’ to more than one of these statements, then mark your calendar for next Tuesday, May 4th- because this session is for you!
Building Professional Skills: Sales, Messaging, Networking Consulting – How to Present Your Value to Business
May 4 2010 – SFU (Surrey Campus) Room 5100
Registration and Coffee 8:30 am – Workshop from 9am – 4pm (A light lunch will be provided.) Sponored by Tomorrow’s Workplace – The Workshop and refeshments are complimentary.
Learn More – Download Info Sheet: Surrey Employment Service Providers Professional Skills Workshop
Community Service Providers Invited
Employment Service Providers Free Networking and Development Workshop
Dr. Roberta Neault: Life Strategies Ltd
The workplace of tomorrow will be very diverse, comprising individual differences in generations, education levels, cultural, and ability/disability. As an employment service provider, you’re aware of these realities, and are focused on connecting your clients with satisfying work situations.
Through the Tomorrow’s Workplace project, we are supporting the connection of businesses with community groups in order to source and recruit job-ready individuals in Surrey. We are helping organizations explore their “Business Case for Diversity” to help them sustain and grow into the future.
During the workshops and discussions we’ve had with employment service providers, one common theme expressed is their challenge in building relationships with businesses.
Please join us for exploration and discussion
We invite you to join with peers in your community as Dr. Neault and Ms. Pickerell share tips and techniques for building collaborative relationships with the business community. This is about moving forward, taking some risks, and recognizing how employment service providers are uniquely positioned to meet the immediate needs of our business community.
More About the Speakers
Dr. Roberta Neault is president of Life Strategies Ltd., an Aldergrove-based firm specializing in diversity, international/global careers, and career management as a recruitment, retention, and engagement solution. She is a counsellor-educator at Athabasca, Yorkville, and Trinity Western Universities, and an award-winning keynote speaker, trainer, presenter, and facilitator.
In 2009, working with SUCCESS, she was instrumental in developing a toolkit: SEED: Supporting Employers Embracing Diversity. This comprehensive toolkit guides employers in recruitment, retention, and training a culturally diverse workforce.
Deirdre Pickerell - Senior Consultant Life Strategies, Inc
Deirdre Pickerell, Life Strategies’ senior consultant, received the BC HRMA Award of Excellence for her innovative work in career management within organizations. Ms. Pickerell is a sought after speaker and an international expert on using career management as an employee engagement strategy.
Meeting Details
YOU MUST CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDENCE – RSVP to Heather Scragg at the Surrey Board of Trade Email: heather@businessinsurrey.com Call: 604.581.7130
Wednesday, March 3, 3:00-5:00pm
(network/register 2:30-3:00)
Sheraton Guildford, Surrey BC
Hosted by the Tomorrow’s Workplace project:
Gayle Hadfield, Project Manager, Lynn Corrigan, Workplace Design Consultant
