Complimentary Webinar – How to Deal with, and Transfer your Business to Millennials

How to Deal with, and Transfer your Business to: Millennials

Creating a Company Culture that Engages the Next Generation of Leaders

July 4, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m.EST, 12:00 p.m. AST, 12:30 p.m. NST

Intergenerational workplaces is such a hot topic that when Stefan Wiesen, CFO and Co-Owner of Intrigue Media offered to prepare a talk and share his experience and insights, we jumped on the chance to include it as part of Emergenetics Ontario Complimentary Webinar Series!

Intrigue Media is well known for its company culture, experiencing great success in the integration of millenials and steadily growing. Stefan is a baby boomer who works with and is business partner with millenials.

Learning takeaways:

  • Millenials are the worst. Unengaged, entitled, superficial. Yeah, right. 🙂
  • Some boring statistics
  • What do millenials really want – and why
  • The myth of the foosball table
  • Is there a generational conflict? HOW do I bridge it?
  • Finding the right talent
  • Build your culture, build your team
  • What is more relevant here, thinking patterns or age?
  • Open books – ownership thinking
  • Profit today, succession later
  • The most incredible fact about business law in Ontario

Big Picture: Understand how a great company culture can

  1. attract great talent
  2. motivate your team
  3. increase your business’s valuation

Take home fresh ideas around building a better company/organization.

Please REGISTER HERE for this  exclusive free opportunity!

Speaker Bio:

Stefan was born and raised in Germany. His education is based on the odd combination of finance (College Degree in Banking) and marketing (University Degree in Business Administration, Marketing). After working as a manager in private and publicly traded companies in Germany and the USA, he and his family immigrated to Canada in 1993. He started his first business in the advertising industry. After selling this company to his US partners, he acquired a consumer goods manufacturing company which he also sold and then became a partner in a private equity firm. In 2009, they invested in fledgling Intrigue Media where Stefan found his final home. He leads finance, HR and administration. Outside Intrigue, Stefan is engaged in the community as Past Chair of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce and Treasurer of the Career Education Council. Politics is as much his passion as vintage cars and motorcycles which he restores and races. Stefan lives in Hockley Village north of Toronto. He is married with two adult daughters and is proud grandfather.

I sincerely hope you will take full advantage of this invitation and informative experience! 

Gail Green,

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Public Speaking Mastery

Dear Tomorrow’s Success Story,
How badly do you want it?

Vicki Goodfellow Duke is a professional public speaking coach, and has been teaching Public Speaking, and Rhetoric at Mount Royal University since 1991. She was a National Examiner for Speech and Drama for The Royal Conservatory of Toronto from 1996 to 2001.

In Vicki’s Accelerator Group, you will learn and practice: how to overcome speech anxiety, how to overcome barriers to effective communication, how to design a successful presentation, and how to use PowerPoint effectively.

Starts June 18. $37.75/session.
Max 8 people per group. Don’t miss out – sign up today at: https://levellingup.ca/sages/vicki-goodfellow-duke/

LevellingUp’s unique approach to skills development bridges the gap between knowing HOW TO do something, and EXPERTLY PERFORMING that skill. At least 40% of Fortune 500 CEOs have an executive coach – why not you?
Receive feedback from a proven expert as you put knowledge into practice. Rapidly grow your skills, gain experience & confidence. Discover your true potential.

The experts you want. The skills you need. No one standing in your way.
www.LevellingUp.ca
@Vicki Goodfellow-Duke
#LevellingUp #PeopleHelpingPeople #LevelUp #Leadership #Goals

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The Mediocre Leader – Pt.2

The world is full of mediocre leaders, and I am one of them.

But I don’t want to be mediocre, and I don’t believe I’m condemned to a life sentence of mediocrity. Most of all, if I have any compassion on those I lead, on those subjected to my middling skills, I have to get better.

In Part 1 of this article, I talked about how odd it is that we practice our leadership skills on those we lead. Unlike other high-skill professions (surgeons, speakers, pilots, musicians, etc.) that are practiced off-line, our expectations of our leaders are apparently so low that we allow them to practice while performing.

Not all Practice is Good Practice

In his groundbreaking 1993 paper “The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”, cognitive psychologist Anders Ericsson explains “many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of [deliberate] practice”.

According to Ericsson, deliberate practice includes:

“A constant sense of self-evaluation, of focusing on one’s weaknesses, rather than simply fooling around and playing to one’s strengths. Studies show that practice aimed at remedying weaknesses is a better predictor of expertise than raw number of hours; playing for fun and repeating what you already know is not necessarily the same as efficiently reaching a new level. Most of the practicing that most people do, most of the time… yields almost no effect.”

You may have heard about Daniel Letiv and Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule – that a key prerequisite to mastery in any skill domain is 10,000 hours of practice. I quote Letiv contemplating that the 10,000-hour rule “doesn’t address why some people get more out of their practice sessions than others do”. Not only does Ericsson answer this with “deliberate practice”, but his research also lands on the 10,000-hour figure as a pre-requisite for mastery.

If 10,000 hours (or 5 years of 8 hours of practice 5 days a week) scares the pants off you, it has been established that 10,000 hours is insufficient in the most highly competitive fields such as the Olympics. Performances that were record-setting twenty years ago are now achieved in training by many competitive athletes! Or, maybe looking at this from a more reassuring angle, in pursuits where the bar is set low (like leadership?), significantly fewer than 10,000 hours are required to become outstanding. After all, the U.S. had 1 Olympic athlete in Rio for every 583,213 Americans – as compared to 1 people manager for every 4.7 employees.

As a musician and an athlete, I willingly adopt the discipline of focusing on weaknesses, and that (as Ericsson puts it) getting better “requires effort and is not inherently enjoyable”. However, in the realm of leadership, I don’t think I’ve ever invested in any deliberate, effort-laden, not-inherently-enjoyable practice. Given that I spend WAY more time leading people than I do in athletic competition and/or music performance, I profess this lack of investment doesn’t make sense.

Sure, I’ve spent over fifteen years – or 30,000 hours – of my career in positions of formal leadership and am therefore “highly experienced”. However, I grudgingly admit most of these practice hours match Ericsson’s description of “playing for fun and repeating what you already know” and will therefore “yield almost no effect”.

 

But practice obviously isn’t the only thing that allows leaders to achieve mastery – and we will talk more about that in part three of this series.

At Levelling Up, we help growing leaders quickly become exceptional leaders by connecting them with expert mentors & coaches.

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The Power of Video: Marketing YOURSELF!

 

muniSERV knows how important it is to get your message out to municipalities and municipal employers, and this includes videos! We’re letting you upload a video to your muniSERV profile and your Candidates’ Profile on muniJOBS, which lets you showcase you, your personality and why you’re a great fit! Let’s look at some of the best ways to get you looking and sounding your best.

Use a tripod

tripod

 

Tripods are important and inexpensive! They’ll keep your camera steady and you perfectly in the frame. Shaky, poorly framed videos will always appear less professional than a nicely framed, steady profile! Tripods are cheap, little tools that manage to increase the value of your shot exponentially.

 

 

Write it out first

 

Don’t just turn on the camera and improvise! Write everything out first. Read it back, listen to yourself and listen for anything you want to change. Practice it a few times by yourself – make it sound looser, fluid and more conversational. You don’t want it to sound like you’re just reading a script. You want to sound comfortable and confident, as opposed to stiff and awkward.

 

Be in the right setting

 

desk

Videos are visual, remember! It’s not just you that’s being shown off, it’s everything around you, too. The surroundings are reflective of you, as this is a clear window who you are. Messy rooms, background noise or pets running around causing trouble in the frame can cost you big. This is a video that you have complete control over. You can always do another take if the cat comes in and knocks over a book on your desk.

 

Keep the editing simple

 

This is for professional use, not a high school art film. If your video is of just you talking to the camera, intro with a fade in from black and end with a fade to black. Steer clear of the star wipes and excessive overlay animations. If the video is shorter in length
(around two to four minutes), try to get it done in one take to avoid cutting and pasting different sections of each take, causing distracting jump cuts and removing the confidence of the viewer in your skills to present yourself in a collected manner.

Subtitles

 

In what seems like a surprising addition to the list, subtitles are becoming more and more important. According to Digiday, 85% of videos are viewed with the volume off. Beyond this, subtitles ensure that your messages are conveyed clearly to everyone, as the words are printed right there. Those who are hard of hearing have a visual, and those who might still struggle with English can be sure about the content.

Videos are incredible tools that we’re all able to use with the prevalence of cameras in our smartphones. The days of grainy, choppy webcam footage are long gone. Utilizing this tool to its fullest potential in both your professional profile on muniSERV and in your Candidate’s profile on muniJOBS can really showcase the product or service you’re trying to deliver to municipal decision-makers, and what an asset you are to a future municipal employer. It’s their chance to really get to know you before you even realize it. If you want to get your video featured in the muniSERV newsletter, email us at [email protected]

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Fundamentals for Assertiveness

Dear Tomorrow’s Success Story,
How badly do you want it?

John Callaway is a mediator at the Alberta Provincial Court Civil Mediation program, and a facilitator of workplace conflict resolution and assertive communication programs.

In John’s Accelerator Group you will learn techniques for assertive communication – and avoid being aggressive. Achieve improved outcomes in all aspects of life, both personally and professionally.

Starts June 17. $21.50/session.
Max 8 people per group. Don’t miss out – sign up today at: https://levellingup.ca/sages/john-callaway/

LevellingUp’s unique approach to skills development bridges the gap between knowing HOW TO do something, and EXPERTLY PERFORMING that skill. At least 40% of Fortune 500 CEOs have an executive coach – why not you?
Receive feedback from a proven expert as you put knowledge into practice. Rapidly grow your skills, gain experience & confidence. Discover your true potential.

The experts you want. The skills you need. No one standing in your way.
www.LevellingUp.ca
@John Callaway
#LevellingUp #PeopleHelpingPeople #LevelUp #Leadership #Goals

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Overcoming Speech Anxiety & Barriers to Effective Communication

Vicki Goodfellow Duke is a professional public speaking coach, and has been teaching Public Speaking, and Rhetoric at Mount Royal University since 1991. She was a National Examiner for Speech and Drama for The Royal Conservatory of Toronto from 1996 to 2001.

In Vicki’s Accelerator Group, you will learn and practice: how to overcome speech anxiety, how to overcome barriers to effective communication, how to design a successful presentation, and how to use PowerPoint effectively.

Starts June 4. $37.75/session.  Please note the time below is MDT

Max 8 people per group. Don’t miss out – sign up today at: https://levellingup.ca/sages/vicki-goodfellow-duke/

LevellingUp’s unique approach to skills development bridges the gap between knowing HOW TO do something, and EXPERTLY PERFORMING that skill. At least 40% of Fortune 500 CEOs have an executive coach – why not you?
Receive feedback from a proven expert as you put knowledge into practice. Rapidly grow your skills, gain experience & confidence. Discover your true potential.

The experts you want. The skills you need. No one standing in your way.

Learn More & Register
www.LevellingUp.ca
@Vicki Goodfellow-Duke
#LevellingUp #PeopleHelpingPeople #LevelUp #Leadership #Goals

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Levelling Up Accelerator Group – Head to Heart Leadership

Head To Heart Leadership

Thursdays for 8 weeks – Starting May 9th

You will LEARN to apply leadership principles in pragmatic ways, in real-life situations and circumstances. We will take from the book; “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John C. Maxwell.

You will ACHIEVE higher awareness of core leadership principles in your professional and personal lives by engaging the mind & the heart in ways to self-assess and improve your leadership.

Scott started my career without any idea that professional or personal development even existed until he was handed a book that set the tone for rest of my professional life, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie.

Adding value and serving others was a foreign concept to a corporate newcomer who wanted to climb the corporate ladder quickly, but he committed myself to it.

With persistent focus on growth and valuing others, he received a call one day that changed my life forever – a call from leadership expert John C. Maxwell to grow his Leadership Certification Program…

Learn more and join this Accelerator Group Today!

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Levelling Up Accelerator Group – Growing the Leader’s Emotional Intelligence

Growing the Leader’s Emotional Intelligence​

Saturdays for 6 sessions – Starting May 4th

You will LEARN:

•how to grow the powerful EQ skills of empathy, how to diffuse conflicts and improve relationships; using practical neuroscience distinctions.

Research shows that 90% of top Performers have high EQ and 58% of job performance is EQ. Its the biggest predictor of career success. EQ will profoundly impact your choices by creating options otherwise not available. It will greatly influence your success!

Dietrich is the founder of Emotional Wealth Management Inc, a research based coaching style that integrates neuroscience into the world of Emotional Intelligence. He offers a very unique set of skills that produce long-term results in a short period of time. He has been working with people from all walks of life for over 40 years. He is a sought after speaker, published author, teacher and mentor. Dietrich has had the privilege to work with the airline industry, professional athletes, law enforcement, dental medical/ psychology practices, oil and gas, real estate, and top C-suite leaders.

Dietrich brings a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that brings real transformation. He currently resides in Calgary, Alberta with his wife Edith of 38 years of marriage.

Learn More and Join this Accelerator Group Today!

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Now available on demand: Ecofiscal Commission online course – Using Market-Based Tools for Municipal Sustainability

Municipalities are missing out on the full potential of market-based tools!

Municipal governments are facing multiple, growing, and overlapping challenges. Yet, there are tools available to address these challenges that are not being used to their full potential. Market-based policies such as well-designed user fees can help reduce traffic, cut water use, and improve solid waste management, while generating revenue that can be used to fill financial gaps.

These challenges include:

  • Municipal infrastructure is aging and faces a growing investment gap;
  • Municipalities have limited ability to raise revenues. Only so much can be raised from property taxes. They also often face constraints on debt financing; and
  • To attract people and investment, livability is key: cities must provide job and recreational opportunities, ensure affordability, make it easy to move people and products, and protect clean air and water.

It all sounds a little daunting. Yet an under-used policy option might lie at the intersection of these challenges. Municipalities can use market-based tools to fund critical infrastructure and create incentives for individuals and businesses to make choices that improve the livability and sustainability of our communities.

Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, with support from the McConnell Foundation, has developed a unique online course on municipal market-based tools for sustainable development that will help municipal employees, and those that work with municipalities, successfully design and implement these solutions.

Through five self-directed and on demand modules that include recordings of webinars led by experts and experienced practitioners and a series of online exercises, participants will learn how Canadian municipalities can practically use a variety of market-based tools. The five modules include:

 The course is guaranteed to provide unique insight and practical guidance on the selection, design and implementation of municipal market-based tools.

Who should attend?
The course is intended for municipal employees, as well as federal and provincial employees that work with municipalities on related issues. It is open to anyone, including students and private sector employees, that has an interest in topics such as municipal finance, asset management, infrastructure financing, environmental policy, urban planning, traffic management, water and wastewater management, and solid waste management.

The course is well suited to busy professionals. You can complete the modules at your own pace and on your own schedule.

Registration details:
You can purchase individual modules for $50, or sign up for all 5 modules for $200 (a $50 savings). Complete at least 3 modules, including course exercises, to receive a certificate! While modules can be mixed and matched, Module 1 is a pre-requisite for modules 2-5 as it is foundational. 

French option:
We’ve also made available a mini-course that summarizes the material for $70. Presented by Justin Leroux in French, this mini-course includes videos that cover the highlights of our traffic, water and wastewater, and municipal waste modules as listed above.

Go to courses.ecofiscal.ca for more information and to register. If you have any questions, contact [email protected]

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Meeting of the Minds Workshop

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:

• Receive a behavioral and thinking style profile that will reveal you innate strengths
• 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, May 14, 2019 in Mississauga and to sharing a simpler, easier way to understand yourself and others with the neuro-science of Emergenetics!

Details:

Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Location: Regus Toronto Airport Centre, 2425 Matheson Blvd East, 8th floor, Mississauga, ON Google Map
Time: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Cost of Workshop and Profile: $249 (Click below to enroll. After enrollment, instructions to take your Emergenetics   Profile will be sent within 24 hours)

muniSERV.ca is proud to partner with Emergenetics to provide a special members discount.  

**muniserv Members use 50OFF promo code

Register Today!

Unable to attend?  Watch for our upcoming online version in June 2019.

If you’d like more information, simply respond to this email or call 905.636.0797

[email protected]
EmergeneticsOntario.com

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