June 14, 2011
Speaker: Pearl MacDonald
(a 6 year veteran of our chapter and Past President.)
Topic: IAAP – What are the possibilities – Let’s Talk!
Presentation Overview
This is your chance to hear a few stories and listen to someone who has benefited from their involvement in IAAP. Have you ever thought about what your future would look like 5 or 10 years down the road? Have you ever really sat down and thought about your membership in this “Professional Association”? When you joined IAAP, did you set goals on how you would make your membership work for you? This is our last meeting of the 2010-2011 year. Come – be inspired - make time in your busy schedule to attend this once in a lifetime meeting. The time is now, the choice is yours, let’s talk.
May 10, 2011
Topic: Health and Exercise at the Workstation in the Workplace
Presentation Overview
Speaker: Daryn
Kemp from Applied Knowledge Consulting Inc. will be bringing in a desk;
chair, keyboard tray and monitor to demonstrate the proper way a
workstation should look and adjust the workstation to keep us healthier
longer with a mock ergonomic assessment for the group.
Presentation outline
• Overview of ergonomic principles
• Real world example using member in chair at desk with keyboard tray and monitor
The vast majority of Daryn’s 14 years of experience in the Office
Furniture industry has come from a hands-on approach in the service and
installation side of the business. Having begun his career on the
trucks with a Calgary installation company, Daryn worked his way up to
managing branch locations in both Vancouver and Edmonton before making
the plunge into sales in January of 2009. His recent transition to
owning his own consulting firm reflects his commitment to the highest
levels of customer service and his dedication to helping clients achieve
their organizational goals across a number of areas including
ergonomics, office furniture, commercial signage and painting.
With respect to ergonomics, his philosophy is quite simple - the entire
system is affected by small and often overlooked changes to one
particular component. Any approach to setting up an ergonomically
correct workstation must take this into account. A good chair or a good
keyboard tray is simply not enough. His hands on approach focuses on
adjusting necessary and relevant workspace components immediately to
have an instantaneous impact, and recommending further changes and
adjustments to keep the end user problem free for weeks and years to
come.
Speaker: Christian Gannon will demonstrate various different causes of
physical stress at the workstation (desk work, poor posture, increased
muscle tension, etc.), and offer practical, effective and easy exercises
people can do every day at their desk to lessen the effects of
repetitive strain on the body.
While being active in many sporting activities, he has been privately
training clients for many years now with great success due to his
"Real-Life" fitness Christian is a Certified Personal Trainer who is
proud of the fact that EVERY ONE of his clients has enjoyed their
customized programs so much that each of them is willing to act as a
referral!! hilosophy. Chris's greatest pleasures include swimming,
mountain biking, climbing, yoga, wakeboarding and his beloved car
collection. He also enjoys the open road while out on his Yamaha R6 he
has lovingly named "Darth".
Having been both a professional business person &
entrepreneur, Chris knows what it is like to have to maintain a healthy
lifestyle while living life on the road, out of a suitcase and eating
whatever you can find in your glove box! He mostly enjoys seeing his
clients through their own fitness evolution and looks forward to every
session!
Christian will also demonstrate the following outline:
• Basic daily body weight exercises that can be performed anywhere
• Specific exercises to counteract the stressors that are present while working at a desk
• Core strengthening to help correct problems, and prevent re-occurring physical issues
• Stretches to help increase range of motion and reduce risk of injury
• Breathing techniques to help reduce tension and stress, lower blood-pressure, and increase focus and clarity.
• Proper nutrition to help reduce inflammation, burn fat, and increase energy
April 20, 2011
Administrative Professionals Day
Our regular monthly chapter meeting is postponed until April 20th
to celebrate our Annual Administrative Professionals Day, which is
being held at the Ramada Inn. This is truly an event you don't want to
miss out on!! Hope to see you there!
March 8, 2011
Speaker: Debra Kasowski
Confidence Building: Building the Unstoppable You
Presentation Overview
Do you find yourself
admiring confident charismatic individuals and wonder what makes them so
different than you? Are you struggling with developing your
self-confidence? Would you like to develop unstoppable
self-confidence? In this presentation, you will:
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Learn the keys to developing balanced self-confidence
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Identify your strengths and confidence level
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Uncover the top 5 reasons why people struggle with their self-confidence
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Discover 10 strategies to boost your self-confidence today
February 8, 2011
Speaker: Dave Rodwell
Overview of Corporate Security
Dave developed his
investigative acumen and expertise over a span of 28 years of service
with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Upon retirement from the RCMP,
he has entered the field of private investigation and security
consultation work. His work includes internal thefts, insurance
investigations, motor vehicle accident investigations, unfair business
practices, wrongful dismal, sexual harassment, and missing persons.
Overview of Corporate Security is one of Edmonton’s most informative
business seminars/presentations on corporate security. It is packed
valuable information to help a company maximize the detection of crime
in your company. The presentation will address:
- That it is never too soon to implement a security plan.
- In what areas of business should corporate security play a role?
- How having a plan will save you money in a long term.
- The steps necessary to start an effective program.
January 11, 2011
George Boelcke, CCP
Dinner Meeting & Presentation
Colourful Personalities
George J. Boelcke, is
the President of Vantage Financial Consultants Ltd. Author and speaker,
has over 25 years of real world experience in the credit and finance
fields, including more than ten years as Senior Finance Manager in the
automotive industry.
The power of colours is taught to more than half a million people
each year. It is used as a significant tool for team building, fostering
unity, staff retention, sales and marketing. Colourful Personalities is
an entertaining and interactive presentation. Participants will quickly
discover their unique blend of colors and define each other’s strengths
and stresses. It will help strengthening teamwork and understanding
which provides a language for expressing values. To find out more about
this, please visit his website by clicking here.
December 14, 2010
Charmaine Hammond, M.A., B.A.
Dinner Meeting & Presentation
Passion & Purpose
Passion
& Purpose is more than simply showing up and being present. It is a
way of working with intention, thus giving more meaning to work.
Working this way requires focus, clarity and spirit. What do these three
qualities or characteristics look like? There is much we can learn from
Toby. An 8 year old Chesapeake Bay retriever and his story will provide
participants with a meaningful example of purposeful work in teams and
in business.
For more information on Charmaine, please visit her website http://www.hammondgroup.biz/ you can read her full bio by clicking here.
November 9, 2010
Dawn Becker, President of the Western Canada Division of IAAP
will be presenting at our INFORMATION NIGHT!
This INFORMATION NIGHT will be an
amazing evening to share with your co-workers, friends and other
administrative professionals what a great organization IAAP is and how
it provides ongoing continuing education, networking, the latest
information and research, as well as the certification programs.
However, the evening is fully dependent on you! We need our members
to reach out and invite two guests who you believe would be interested
in IAAP. They can be co-workers, friends, neighbours, or contacts you
have met through your day-to-day work. Who to invite is up to you, but
we need your help getting the word out! Since there are 56 members,
there should be 168 attendees! Do not assume someone else will take care
of this, please be active in your chapter and ask! If it is easier for
you to email Alicia the guest's information, she is more than happy to
invite your contacts for you. Please send her the information!
Need a little incentive? For each guest that you bring, you will receive an extra door prize ticket!
The information night is described in the poster (view poster).
Please post it, send it, and circulate it as much as you can. We sure
want to have a large turnout since the President of WCD is coming! Let’s
show her how grand the Edmonton Chapter is!
We would love to see all the members dressed in Black, Purple or
White for the meeting thus supporting this year’s Passion & Purpose
theme!
Registration Deadline: November 1
For this evening, please register yourself and your guests, by sending an email to Alicia at alicia.prilipp@aecom.com.
We require your guest’s company name and contact information, i.e.:
email address or phone number as registration information will be
confirmed.
We are looking forward to seeing you and meeting your guests at Information Night!
October 8, 2010
Catherine Armstorng
Dinner Meeting & Presentation
The Art of Resolving Problems and Influencing Others
Successful Conflict Resolution
Understanding conflict is one of the major
concerns in business today. This concern is not surprising given the
current trend where people from different departments are being asked to
work together and when mergers and downsizing are creating difficult
and new situations. People at all levels are being asked to handle
conflict in a constructive manner. Effective conflict management can
increase productivity, enhance job satisfaction and save time and money.
Discover Simple Steps to Conflict Resolution and determine your ability
to influence others and to resolve problems.
Join Catherine (click on her name for a full bio) and discover:
• The difference between conflict management and conflict resolution
• Discuss the challenges you face handling conflict situations
• How to be effective even when discussing difficult or contentious issues
• Understand your intent: do you want to influence the other person or do you want to resolve the conflict?
• Discuss best practices to influence others and resolve conflict
September 14, 2010
Robert Manolson
Dinner Meeting & Presentation
All Work & No Play? The Value of Fun at Work in Today’s Always Busy Workplace
Robert’s message to
all of us who come to play is quite simple: we don’t need any special
equipment or clothing, or an elaborated playing field, gym or area.
Heck, you don’t even have to be in shape. All we need is you, to play,
and to feel renewed, re-focused and re-awakened through the power of
powerful play experience.
Powerful Play Experiences is for owners, employers, supervisors and
managers of businesses and organizations, not-for-profit agencies and
associations, education and training institutions, who seize
opportunities to shape their company's success and endeavor to provide a
stimulating, positive and healthy environment for their employees.
More Than Fun!! Powerful Play Experiences have proven to be
successful in a broad range of businesses and organizations, and within
various workplace applications.
To read more about Robert Manolson, please click here to access his bio or check out his website, please click here, to see what others have said about him.
June 8, 2010
Paul Sveen
Dinner Meeting and Elections & Presentation
The Five Principles of Humor
1) Overcoming our Inner Critic
2) Who Are We
3) Discover our Child Within
4) Using Intuition
5) Let Go - The Bridge Will Appear
The Power of Laughter and humor is the fuel behind the Laws of Attraction. We are beings of emotions our feelings are what repels or attracts opportunity and purpose. If we were to do "One Thing" that would have the greatest impact on our life to taking action on our goals and dreams let that one thing be Laughter? We know what's on the other side of stress- more stress. I wonder what's on the other side of giggle. Let’s find out Ladies and Gentlemen!
To read more about Paul Sveen, please click here to access his bio.
May 11, 2010
Barbara Semeniuk
Dinner Meeting and Elections & Presentation
Workplace Bullying and Workplace Violence
Barbara Semeniuk in this topic addresses the subject of Workplace Bullying and Workplace Violence. It is a little known fact that Canada is in the top three countries in the world with workplace violence issues. People die because this topic is not adequately addressed in emergency response plans and corporately. Workplace Bullying is more an issue in workplaces than sexual discrimination and racial harassment. It cuts across all levels of employees, amongst all religious, sexual and racial lines. It is the number one issue why people leave and/or experience anxiety and suffering on the job. Often it is condoned as just that managers or subordinate’s behaviour especially if they are productive. Often corporate bullies will select victims who report to him and/or her and cannot readily fight back. Victims offer suffer greatly and some have snapped killing coworkers and the bullying person indiscriminately. In Barbara’s opinion just like MADD changed the view on driving while drunk and there is zero tolerance to schoolyard bullying.....a change in corporate behaviour must occur and zero tolerance should be granted towards workplace bullies and associated workplace violence issues.
To read more about Barbara Semeniuk, please click here to access her bio.
March 9, 2010
Laurel Vespi - Stone Circle Coaching
Dinner Meeting and Presentation
Ducks in a Row
May 11, 2010 Dinner Meeting and Elections & Presentation
Do you talk a good talk but not practice what you preach? For many people their actions do not consistently line up with what they say is important. There is a lot of quacking going on but not much credibility. Whether it is with your family, your co-workers or yourself, doing what you say & saying what you do is a key to your personal and professional success. Getting your ducks in a row helps you experience confidence, trust and cooperation.
During this session, you will:
1) explore the importance of aligning actions and words
2) begin to clarify your values
3) understand how to make value based decisions & choices
4) learn simple tips for walking your talk
February 9, 2010
Office Team
Dinner Meeting and Presentation
Etiquette at Work Whether You Realize It or Not
Did you know that, people pay close attention to business etiquette - from how you shake a person's hand to how you treat a waiter during a lunch hour meeting. Good etiquette adds to your overall credibility. On the other hand, poor etiquette can hurt your professional relationships. This presentation looks at many areas of business etiquette including networking know-how, meeting manners, dinner decorum and more.
January 12, 2010
Professional Staffing Services Robert Half International
Carmen Pollock
Dinner Meeting and Presentation
Time Management: Time Is On Your Side
Carmen is the branch manager for Robert Half International Professional Staffing Services here in Edmonton, she is the leading presenter for their development courses and has assisted numerous professionals in taking their career and professionals to the next level.
Topics that she will cover: how can you manage workflow with limited resources without sacrificing the quality of your work, effective time management, tips and techniques for going more control over your schedule, just to name a few! A must attend for any Administrative Professional that feels that "there is just not enough time!"