HR Modernization can benefit greatly from the integration of third party data about employees. By linking privacy-compliant, contextual data about your employees, departments and agencies can much better inform recruitment approaches, internal communications strategies, effective employee onboarding, and retention strategies that can increase employee engagement, loyalty and sense of community. This session will take you through how the integration of privacy-compliant data into your organization’s ecosystem can enable HR and management to better understand, communicate with, and take action on policies and strategies that benefit both employees and management.

In our times of uncertainty, organizations need to have psychological safety in the workplace and on their teams. Psychological safety refers to the belief that one can speak up and challenge ideas without fear of being ignored, reprimanded, or humiliated by authority or others in the organization. The pandemic has accentuated the need for workplace psychological safety. Many professionals ask: How can I lead an organization and team where people speak up and share their ideas? Where do I start?

This session, based on the leadership books by Dr. David Weiss and his subsequent work, provides the insights and techniques to enhance psychological safety in the workplace. This insightful and entertaining interactive session will answer the following questions:

• What is psychological safety and why is it important?
• What can leaders do to enhance the psychological safety of their teams?
• How can you apply the ideas about psychological safety to your work in people analytics?

• Like most other organizations, the Government of Alberta has felt the impact of high turnover and increasing demand for talent and has embarked on a transformation of their recruitment services
• Learn how to measure and understand the factors that impact your organization’s talent acquisition landscape and how to leverage that data to inform strategies to meet a high-turnover future
• Discover multiple strategies put in place by the Government of Alberta, how they have measured success and how you can adapt and replicate this in your own organization

This presentation will help you develop the skills you need to become a more relational leader. You’ll learn how to harness 7 leadership practices that will help you:

• Overcome the 7 deadly derailers that sabotage leaders
• Become more self-aware and compassionate
• Appreciate others’ perspectives to make more informed decisions
• Empower the team to accelerate performance
• Become the “guide on the side” who coaches and mentors
• Navigate complexity to avoid costly missteps
• Inspire the team to innovate and transform

Re-ignite your leadership to move from being negatively disrupted to becoming positively daring

With Big Data and Data Visualization tools becoming more important strategically for organizations, Sheridan College is developing one of the first courses to not only teach HR students important People Analytic concepts and measures, but also shows them how to create, show and share those metrics with a Data Visualization Tool (Tableau Prep and Desktop). This will make graduate students better prepared to extract, transform and explain an organization’s HRIS (and other) based people data