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Free Webinar – Intro to Emotional Intelligence

In this FREE LIVE WEBINAR, you will start your journey to EQ mastery.

About this Event

Intro to Emotional Intelligence – Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:00 – 3:00 EDT
Presented by: Dietrich Desmarais
LevellingUp Sage, Executive Coach

In this LIVE WEBINAR, you will learn

  • The 5 research-based structures of Emotional Intelligence
  • How neuroscience research findings can accelerate the impact of your results.

Data shows that 90% of top performers have high Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and that 60% of a person’s job performance relies on their EQ.

Learn More and Register Here

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Free Webinar – Lead from Your Strengths

In this FREE LIVE WEBINAR, you will learn how to focus your STRENGTHS on your personal, team, and leadership challenges.

About this Event
Lead From Your Strengths – Thursday, Sept 5 @ 2-3pm EDT

Presented by: Pam Danyluk
LevellingUp Sage, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach

In this free, live session, you will learn:

  • What sets you apart from millions of others.
  • How to trust your gut, and to lean into the talents already within you.
  • How to focus your strengths on your personal, team, and leadership challenges.
  • Do you feel like you have potential bubbling over the brim – and you’re ready to do something about it?

Then you are ready to DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS!

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Meeting of the Minds Workshop

The cost of Miscommunication is high!!! A recent International Data Corporation study puts the cost at $620 per employee in companies with 100,000 or more employees. It can soar to a whopping $4200 per person if an organization has 100 or less.

If you are intrigued by the idea of developing your personal and professional potential, as well as that of others, you will undoubtedly be interested in Emergenetics, a proven psychometric tool used around the world but new to the Canadian market. This program will give you a fuller understanding of your own thought and behavioural preferences, and help you to communicate more easily and effectively with others.

Using a well-developed questionnaire designed to explore your strengths, and through an intellectually engaging and socially stimulating training experience, you will discover that Emergenetics is both simple to understand and easy to use. The profile, which is based on a wide body of academic literature covering psychology and neuroscience, is introduced through experiential learning. You will be fascinated not only by the human dynamics but the resulting practical applications as well.

Through the workshop, you will:

  • Increase self-awareness
  • Discover others’ perceptions of you
  • Communicate more effectively
  • Make informed decisions
  • Value your inherent talents
  • Recognize core values

Who should attend:

• Individuals seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and others
• Managers who aspire to build cohesive teams
• Consultants/trainers looking for neuro-scientific tools that resonate with individuals and organizations
• Coaches/mentors and psychologists who are interested in gaining additional
insight into their processes
• Educators who desire to enhance their effectiveness with students and staff

Enroll soon as space will be limited.

We look forward to meeting you at this exciting event on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 in Toronto and to sharing a simpler, easier way to understand yourself and others with the neuro-science of Emergenetics!

Details:

Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019
 Location: Toronto Star Building, 1 Yonge Street, 18th Floor, Toronto, ON Google Map
 Time: 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM
 Facilitator: Bridget Parise 

Cost of Workshop and Profile: $299 (Click below to enroll)

Register Here

If you’d like more information call 905.636.0797.

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The Cumulative Impact of a Departing Employee

When an organization loses a key employee, the bleeding typically does not stop there. What about the teammates that the departing employee leaves behind? How are they impacted?

Simply put, when an employee leaves an organization, you could lose a lot more than the departing employee.

Employee retention is one of the biggest issues currently facing HR. However, when an employee leaves (and some will inevitably leave), there is an impact that is often lost on HR, management and the owners/executives within the organization. The impact is three (3) fold:

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By Noah L. Pusey 

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Free Webinar – Maximize Your Personal Effectiveness

Free Webinar – Tuesday, August 27
2-3 pm Eastern

Presented by Brad Gaulin
LevellingUp Sage, Executive Coach, P.Eng, MBA, CEO CEvO Solutions Inc.

In this session, you will learn the 5 keys to making yourself promotable.  In looking at my own career, especially early on, it’s become obvious that I could have been more successful, faster, if someone had just explained to me how the career game works!

My goal is to shift your paradigm of career responsibility, and to help you understand that your boss is your customer.  This understanding will help you be proactive in moving your career forward, regardless of your role, industry, or demographic.

Register Now

Learn More about Brad Gaulin
Executive Coach, P.Eng, MBA, CEO CEvO Solutions Inc

Here’s what professionals like you are saying about Brad Gaulin:

“Before I joined LevellingUp, I really did not think there was a specific way to improve my personal or social management skills. I just simply thought I could improve from day-to-day experiences at work. However, my LevellingUp Accelerator Group has changed my belief totally.
My Sage, Brad, provided a lot of professional skills, which enhanced my ability to talk to, to work with, and to manage people at work or life.”

– Bryan (engineer)
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North Carolina County loses Millions to Business Email Compromise and Phishing

North Carolina County loses Millions to Business Email Compromise and Phishing

Written by Michael Castro, vCISO and founder of RiskAware

Late last year, Cabarrus County in North Carolina fell victim to a crafted email asking to change banking information for a contractor with whom they had started business earlier that year. Within 3 weeks, the County had sent more than 2.5 Million dollars to who they thought was their contractor. It wasn’t.

It took a few more weeks to discover that they had been compromised. When the dust settled, the County was able to recover some funds, including a mere $75 000 from insurance, but even now, more than 1.7 Million remains unaccounted for.

Last year, losses to business email compromise topped 1.2 Billion dollars. As such, it is clear how an easy scheme can net quite large returns, and why it is so popular amongst cyber thieves.

Just the month previous, the city of Griffin in Georgia lost $800 000 in a compromise scheme.

Email as a process is not enough to deal with impersonation email, email fraud and wire transfer processes. Municipalities need to build new processes with checks in place to prevent the easy route of email compromise and fraud. Changes to account payable processes, proposer cybersecurity planning and education can all greatly improve the chance of such a scheme being caught before any money is lost.

Municipalities should also consider bring in cybersecurity experts to help with governance, compliance and process models that go beyond technical security controls and systems. For those government groups that have smaller budgets set aside for cybersecurity, a fractional or virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) is a good resource to help plan and build a more resilient cyber presence within a budget and capability of the municipality.

RiskAware is a boutique Cybersecurity firm, specializing in Security Governance and Strategy, assisting organizations of all sizes with security and risk advisory services and security-on-demand capabilities. RiskAware and its founder Michael Castro also provide fractional CISO services

RiskAware can be contacted at [email protected] or visited at www.riskaware.ca

 

 

 

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What is the difference between LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT?

In short: leaders create risk, and managers reduce it.

LEADERSHIP ANTICIPATES THE BEST OUT OF PEOPLE, AND MANAGEMENT ANTICIPATES THE WORST. While leadership invites others to follow, management ensures the followers are following.

Leadership is the act of inviting others to a new and better future.  A leader inspires and creates change by casting a vision of a destination that is different, better, and achievable.

Management is the ensuring things happen by creating, communicating, and monitoring expectations.  It tracks individual people to see that they perform as expected, as opposed to inspiring a number of them. 

Leadership skills can be summarized as those skills relevant to interacting with large groups of people, and to inspiring and creating vision. Conversely, management skills are those which are relevant to interacting with individual people, and to specifying and monitoring performance.

Many of the skills required to lead people are also the ones used to manage people. However, the expression of these skills can be significantly different.  For instance, a leader needs to effectively communicate to be compelling and inspirational, and a manager needs to effectively communicate to be precise and personal.

Because of the skillset overlaps between management and leadership, it is quite possible that a single person assumes either of these roles.

 

Want to learn more about leadership?  Check out EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LEADERSHIP.

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The Hidden Benefits of Properly Training your Staff

Many organizations today still do not understand the importance of spending the time and effort to ensure their staff is properly trained. The common reasons for the companies who do not properly train staff are either “too busy” or “can’t justify the cost”.

Although it’s true that training costs do come right off the bottom line, it’s important to understand that proper training has many unseen, yet verifiable benefits to add to the bottom line. Especially with heavy equipment operators and snow plow operators.

 

Properly trained operational staff will reduce costs such as…
• Less waste of material such as gravel, salt and sand
• Less damage to heavy equipment and property
• Reduced injuries (WSIB and insurance costs)
• Reduced maintenance costs on equipment – due to proper daily pre-inspections
• Less turnover in staff – which reduces HR costs
• Projects completed faster – due to skilled equipment operators
• Improved moral – staff feel like they have a future with the organization, so they stay on

While training in the digital learning space is gaining in popularity, ON-SITE training with a qualified Instructor is still necessary for Municipal Public Works departments, to ensure their teams gain the hands-on skills they need to operate the municipality’s heavy equipment.

There are 3 measurable cost advantages to having an Instructor come to your location to provide training on-site for your staff using your equipment…
1. You don’t have the travel costs involved with sending your staff to a training centre

2. Your staff will be trained on the actual equipment they will be operating on the job

3. The Instructors will provide the hands-on practical (in-seat) portion of the training programs for only a few employees at a time, therefore you do not have to pull your entire staff away from their regular jobs/duties all at once. The rest of your staff can continue doing their jobs/duties until they’re scheduled to be with the Instructor.

Canada Heavy Equipment College (People call us “CHEC” for short) is a professional Heavy Equipment, Snow Plow and AZ/DZ truck training organization providing ON-SITE training to Municipal Public Works departments and construction companies throughout Canada.

CHEC has seasoned Professional Heavy Equipment Instructors stationed all across Canada and can send an Instructor to any customers location to provide ON-SITE training anywhere in Canada using the customers equipment.

Learn more here, contact us via the website – or call Toll Free 1-888-934-2432

Ted Butler
Canada Heavy Equipment College

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Fundamentals for Assertiveness

Become the leader everyone will follow with John Callaway; executive coach, mediator and facilitator of workplace conflict resolution and assertive communication programs.

In John’s Accelerator Group you will learn techniques to have healthier conversations and improve day-to-day interactions. Developing the skill of assertive communication will allow you to achieve improved outcomes in all aspects of life, both personally and professionally.

LevellingUp will help you bridge the gap between knowing HOW TO do something and MASTERING it. Grow your skills fast alongside an expert and with the support of a trusted small group.

Starts July 8th Register NOW!
$22/hr, 8 weekly, one hour sessions.

Max 8 people per group. BUY NOW  

www.LevellingUp.ca
#LevellingUp #PeopleHelpingPeople #LevelUp #Leadership #Goals #executivecoach #leadershipskills

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Ready, Set, Lead!

Become the leader everyone will follow with Jean Parker, professional Leadership & Executive Coach (ACC credential), experienced CFO, and an accomplished educator.

In Jean’s Accelerator Group, you will learn how to communicate, collaborate, influence, make decisions, and expand your emotional & creative intelligences through mini lessons, shared insights, coaching conversations, and peer feedback.

Starts July 8th Register NOW!
$30/hr, 8 weekly, one hour sessions.

Max 8 people per group. BUY NOW 

LevellingUp will help you bridge the gap between knowing HOW TO do something and MASTERING it. Grow your skills fast alongside an expert and with the support of a trusted small group.

The experts you want. The skills you need. Nothing standing in your way.

www.LevellingUp.ca
@Jean Parker
#LevellingUp #PeopleHelpingPeople #LevelUp #Leadership #Goals

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