Today, several past and present staff of ICBA will attend the memorial service for Wilson Beck, founder of Wilson M. Beck Insurance Services, who passed away earlier this summer.
Wilson was a dear friend to the open shop construction community. In 2013, he was given ICBA’s highest honour, life membership in our association. There is no doubt that without Wilson Beck our industry would look different today.
Thank you for everything you did for ICBA and open shop construction, Wilson. We mourn with your family, colleagues and many friends, and offer our deepest condolences to them.
The Employment Standards Act sets the rules for employment practices in your office and in the field. Your current work rules may fall short of your statutory obligations even though they are well accepted by your staff or seem like standard practice. if you learn too late that you are not in compliance you may be faced with certain consequences including owing months of back pay in wages.
This 1.5-hour online seminar will give you a review of Employment Standards Act requirements that are particularly relevant to construction industry employers, including:
– Who is a “manager” and exempt from certain requirements
– Independent contractors vs. employees
– Hours of work and overtime
– Averaging agreements for hours of work
– Vacation and statutory holidays
– Paid sick days
– Job protected leaves of absence
– Termination of employment
– Impact of the common law
This session was designed for anyone in the construction industry who wants a better understanding of the Employment Standards Act.
Presenter: Jessica Thomson – Partner, Pulver Crawford Munroe LLP
Jessica practices in all areas of labour and employment law, with a focus on employee management and discipline, employment litigation, labour relations, human rights proceedings and workplace investigations.
Congratulations to ICBA president Chris Gardner on being named to Business in Vancouver‘s 2022 list of most influential business leaders in British Columbia for policy and advocacy. This is his second straight year on the top 500 list. All of us at ICBA are proud to have Chris leading the way! Read more about the awards here.
Each week, ICBA’s Jordan Bateman reflects on what we’ve learned as we participate in ICBA’s Workplace Wellness Program. This program is free for all ICBA members – check out icba.ca/wellness for details.
There’s a great Bruce Springsteen song (aren’t they all!) called Wrecking Ball, which he played at the very final concert before they tore down Giants Stadium in New Jersey. It has a great bridge, where he sings over and over: “And hard times come, and hard times go, and hard times come, and hard times go… just to come again…”
I’ve been thinking about that song a lot during this month’s look at emotional intelligence, and how we respond to external influences. The truth is that we can’t always control whether it is good things or challenges we’re going to face, whether it is criticism or praise we’re going to draw. There’s a seasonality, a rhythm to life, that brings good times and bad.
What we can control is how we respond. Our study of emotional intelligence offers some suggestions on how to do that:
Think on your own emotions – better understand what you’re feeling
Ask others for their perspectives
Be vigilant – watch for early signs of negative behaviours
Try to find the ‘why’ – see the situation through someone else’s eyes
Don’t get defensive when you’re criticized, but ask yourself what you can learn from it
Springsteen has openly shared about his challenges to find mental wellness, and helped others understand. Thanks to The Boss for putting into words what a lot of people around the world are feeling.
ICBA’s Workplace Wellness Program is helping more than 75 companies and 7,000+ construction professionals better understand mental health. The program is free for ICBA members — see icba.ca/wellness.
Participants will improve their skills in leadership, management and supervision of staff. Participants will learn skills to enhance their ability to build a collaborative team culture with their staff and on job sites.
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
Understand the differences between leadership, management, and supervision
Identify different leadership styles and approaches
Apply different leadership styles to deal with various situations
Knowledge of motivational theories – Mazlow, Herzberg, MARS
Ability to enhance individual and group performance and engagement
Understand different personality styles and how to communicate appropriately
Effectively manage time
Understanding stress and how to manage it at work
Knowledge of substance abuse, recognition, and prevention
Conduct a successful toolbox talk
Appropriately discipline and/or terminate staff
Apply various negotiating skills
Deal with difficult people, conflict, and confrontation
Use collaborative decision-making skills
Understand a systems approach to management of construction companies
Four half day (16 hours) of virtual lessons with instructors plus an online portion involving research, reading and answering questions (7-8 hours) that will be marked by the instructors.
Did you know that most employees decide to leave a job within their first 18 months with an organization? When an employee does leave, it usually costs about three times their salary to replace them. You can greatly increase the likelihood that a new employee will stay with you by implementing a well-designed onboarding program that will guide the employee through their first months with the company.
This workshop will explore the benefits of onboarding, show you how to design an onboarding framework, give you ways to customize the program for different audiences, and demonstrate how to measure results from the program.
In this 2-hour session, participants will learn how to:
Define onboarding and describe how it is different from orientation
Identify the business benefits of onboarding
List the factors that contribute to a successful onboarding program
Design a framework for an onboarding program
Customize your onboarding framework
Identify which metrics you should track to evaluate program results
Who Should Attend?
This session would be beneficial for those in a Human Resources (HR) role or anyone that performs HR tasks within a company, as well as supervisors, managers, or safety professionals.
Presenter: Pamela Bragg is the owner of Sarkany Management Inc., a Human Resources Consulting firm, which offers a broad range of HR services.
Each week, ICBA’s Jordan Bateman reflects on what we’ve learned as we participate in ICBA’s Workplace Wellness Program. This program is free for all ICBA members – check out icba.ca/wellness for details.
Is there anything the Hollywood Chrises can’t do? Pratt, Pine, Hemsworth, and Evans – four Chrises who are among the most famous actors in the world.
I was pondering the idea of perspective as part of this week’s Wellness learning on Emotional Intelligence, when I came across a quote from Chris Pine: “The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.”
You’re right, Chris Pine. Learning to shift our perspective plays a big part in our emotional intelligence. Here are three tips that can help:
Seek different points of view. I can tell you that my wife often has a much healthier and broader view of a challenge I’m wrestling with than I do…
Ask more questions. Listen to what others have to say, and ask them how they see the world.
Spend time with new people. This can be a challenge for the introverted among us, but learning new perspectives from new people can change our own views.
Or, as Chris Pine has also said: “There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.” It’s worth a try!
ICBA’s Workplace Wellness Program is helping more than 75 companies and 7,000+ construction professionals better understand mental health. The program is free for ICBA members — see icba.ca/wellness.
Last week, we finally got to bring him in to share his presentation with our full team! More than 50 ICBA staff came together for our Quarterly Townhall and heard from the former Vancouver Canucks goaltender and mental health advocate, who spoke passionately and emotionally about mental wellness.
We are so proud of Corey’s efforts in sharing his personal struggles with mental health throughout his professional hockey career. With ICBA Wellness, he has reinforced our message of the importance of starting conversations and breaking down the stigma around mental health, addiction and suicide.
At ICBA, we are committed to reaching out to our +250,000 industry colleagues who go to work every day on BC construction sites, so together, we can provide those of us suffering in silence the help they need to recover and get better. And we must continue this work: a recent report out of Ontario found that construction workers constituted 30 per cent of those people who died of drug overdoses in 2020 – a number similar to previous to BC studies.
Thanks to Corey for being vulnerable with us and leading by example on this critical issue for our industry. (Corey also visited Kelowna last week for an ICBA members’ breakfast, and the Kelowna Capital News had a great story on the event HERE.)
ICBA’s Workplace Wellness Program is helping more than 75 companies and 7,000+ construction professionals better understand mental health. The program is free for ICBA members — see icba.ca/wellness.
Woo-hoo! More than $30,000 was raised at the 31st ICBA Open golf tournament last week to support our Building Stronger Futures initiative, which funds bursaries for young folks pursuing a career in the trades. ICBA will provide more than $200,000 in bursaries in 2022.
Thank you to all the players who came out to have fun and network. It was a great time at the Hazelmere Golf & Tennis Club. Congrats to the Kerkhoff Develop Build foursome for the best score, the Jacob Bros Construction foursome for the most honest score & the many other winners.
On this week’s Training Thursday, Kerry and Jordan first discuss the successful ICBA Open golf tournament, which raised $30,000 for apprentice bursaries, and then ICBA Training’s latest featured course.
Today’s workforce is experiencing job burnout and stress in epidemic proportions. Workers at all levels feel stressed out, insecure, and misunderstood. In addition to the effects of COVID19- many people are also feeling the demands of the workplace, combined with the demands of home, and sometimes if becomes too much to handle. In this webinar we will explore the causes of such stress and suggest general and specific stress management strategies that people can use every day.
What Will Participants Learn?
– Understand that stress is an unavoidable part of everybody’s life.
– Recognize the symptoms that tell you when you have chronic stress overload.
– Change the situations and actions that can be changed.
– Deal better with situations and actions that can’t be changed.
– Create an action plan for work, home, and play to help reduce and manage stress.
What Topics are Covered?
– Defining stress and how it affects us
– What is stress about?
– Building a solid foundation
– Mental strategies
– Stress at work
– Time management tips
– Stress at home
Presenter: Pamela Bragg is the owner of Sarkany Management Inc., a Human Resources Consulting firm, which offers a broad range of HR services. Pamela has a comprehensive background in executive level human resources and holds a Masters Certificate from Stanford in Diversity & Inclusion as well as a Masters Certificate in Strategic Human Resources & Organizational Change.
