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Contact:	Edmonton: Flo Primeau, CPP, Professional Development Coordinator at (780) 426-3990 ext. 364, toll free 1-800-661-7020, fax: (780) 425-1722, or e-mail fprimeau@apegga.org
	Calgary: Becky Windley, Geoscience Affairs Assistant, at (403) 262-7714, fax (403) 269-2787, or email bwindley@apegga.org.

 

TOPICS:

• Business Writing for Results

• Fundamentals of Project Management (2 day seminar) - CALGARY & EDMONTON - FULL

• Stress Management

• Professional Development and Building Your Career

 

BUSINESS WRITING FOR RESULTS

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn how to:

• use punctuation and mechanics (e.g., capitals, hyphens) effectively and correctly

• improve their spelling

• write concisely and clearly by applying plain language techniques

• write strong, grammatically correct sentences

• proofread their own work

Cheryl Lund, B.Ed., B.A.
Cheryl Lund, a professional editor, has owned a writing, an editing, and a training business, Pebble Creek Communications, for six years. She teaches editing and writing courses at Grant MacEwan College, the University of Alberta, and the University of Northern British Columbia, as well as for the Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC). She facilitates corporate training workshops on topics such as report writing, grant proposal preparation, and plain language. Cheryl has served on the national Certification Steering Committee and the Prairie Provinces Branch Board of the EAC.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING YOUR CAREER

 

Learning Objectives

After completion of this Seminar, the participant will be able to:

• create and implement an effective career development plan

• understand the importance of their professional network and create a network that helps them move their career forward

• understand the relative importance of technical and soft skills in the careers of engineers and geoscientists

• identify whether their career is going in a direction that matches their goals, aspirations and personality

• determine what they need to do in order to move to the next level in their career

Dr. Lionel Laroche, P.Eng. (Ontario)                                                                   
Over the past ten years, Lionel Laroche has provided career management coaching and consulting services to over 15,000 people in nine countries (Canada, the U.S., Bermuda, Mexico, Peru, France, Belgium, Switzerland and China).

Lionel is a very dynamic, entertaining and educational speaker / facilitator who presented at over 150 conferences and venues, organized by a wide range of business, government, academic, professional and non-profit organizations. His publications have appeared in over 30 trade magazines published in eight countries (Canada, U.S., U.K, Netherlands, France, Mexico, Peru and Australia). He has written two books:

• Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions, which has sold 2,200 copies.

• Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Diverse Employees, which came out in December 2006.

Throughout his training, coaching and consulting practice, Lionel makes use of his 20 years of international engineering, management, sales and human resources experience, working with people from over 60 countries. He has worked in eight different countries (Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands,) for several multinational companies, including Xerox, Procter & Gamble, British Petroleum, and Jeumont-Schneider.

Born in France, Lionel obtained his “Diplôme d’Ingénieur Polytechnicien” from the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, France and his Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, USA.

 

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Learning Objectives

EASING THE PRESSURE

Overview:

Everyone experiences stress at some point during the course of one’s work life.  The key is to prevent long-term, intense feelings of stress.  This workshop is an effective program designed to contribute to the participants’ deeper understanding and sense of control over the effects of stress.  Participants will explore their possible sources of stress and develop ways to tackle them with a focus on improved performance and enhanced well-being. 

The course is highly interactive, combining research and best practices with first-hand participant involvement.  Participants will be able to measure their own stress levels by completing an on-line stress survey prior to the classroom session and will be provided with links to resources, tools and tactics for handling their specific stressors.  They will also be encouraged to apply their learning to the specific issues they face and to create action plans for managing their own stress, improving the health of their own work environment and assisting colleagues when required.

After completion of this Seminar, the participant will be able to:

• Define what stress is and measure one’s own stress level

• Understand the impact of stress in today’s work environment and the importance of managing it

• Learn the classical techniques of the “Change Your Mind, Change Your Behaviour” approach to easing the pressures of stress

• Find practical ways for dealing with the day-to-day stress experienced at work and at home.

• Develop longer-term plans to reduce stress and make commitments to “easing the pressure”.

ACHIEVING WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Overview:

Work-Life Balance is often thought of as the equal division between work, life and sleep.  Trying to fit everything into one day is a common source of stress for many people.  With high levels of job and personal commitments, one or the other suffers because time, energy or patience runs out.  The Achieving Work-Life Balance Workshop seeks to equip employees to make life choices that are more conducive to their desired lifestyles.

Learning Objectives

After completion of this Seminar, participants will be able to:

• Understand what Work-Life Balance means

• Determine what striking balance in one’s life would look like

• Recognize that choice has an important part to play in Work-Life Balance challenges

• Apply practical tips and techniques to achieve the greater sense of balance the participant would like to create

Dora M. Newcombe, CHRP
Senior Training Consultant, Corporate Training, Shepell-fgi

With over 20 years experience working in the Human Services and Social Services field, Dora has had the opportunity to work with diverse groups of clients. In her work as a Family Support Worker, Youth Worker and Vocational Rehab Counsellor, Dora has been responsible for the development and facilitation of a variety of workshops to address the needs of the clients. Her workshops have focused on such topics as: stress hardiness, change and transition resiliency, communication skills, managing conflict, and achieving healthy work-life balance.

Since 1995, Dora has been working within the EAP field. Her experience as both a Training Consultant and EAP Account Manager has provided her with an opportunity to work with many employee groups and leadership teams, developing and delivering effective and popular training sessions which address issues impacting on well being in the workplace:

• Stress management; managing change and transition; developing resiliency; balancing work and family

• Supervisory/managerial skills; supporting employees in the workplace

• Dealing with difficult people; managing conflict in the workplace

• Grief and loss and Critical Incident Stress

Prior to joining Shepell-fgi, Dora worked as a Career/Employment Consultant in the private sector, assisting both individuals and organizations. She facilitated sessions that focussed on career planning and transition, labour market demands, personal development, supporting employees in transition and managing change in the workplace.

Throughout her career, Dora has had the opportunity to work with a variety of organizations and their employees in both the public and private sectors across Canada. Her interest and focus has remained constant: addressing organizational culture, workplace behaviours and personal lifestyle choices that impact the total health of individuals, families and organizations. Dora’s creative and successful relationships with Shepell-fgi customers develop positive and creative solutions to address these issues.

Dora is based in the Edmonton office of Shepell-fgi.

 

2-DAY - FUNDAMENTALS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

 

CALGARY & EDMONTON - FULL

All industries can best cope with the demands of today’s continually changing environment through management by project. Project management techniques have been used successfully in a wide range of fields such as engineering and construction projects, product development, entertainment events, software development and organizational change.

Learning Objectives

The purpose of this course is to introduce an effective project management framework which can be usefully applied to technical and non-technical projects.

Upon completing this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Formulate and communicate project plans effectively

• Develop project schedules, cost estimates and responsibility charts

• Organize and lead a project team

• Apply techniques of project controls such as schedule control, cost control and change management

• Apply effective project monitoring and evaluation techniques

• Build and sustain project teams.

Structure

Participants will have an opportunity to discuss the use of several tools that are essential for successful project management with focus on the front-end planning, communication and team work. Using case studies, workshops and class discussions, participants will apply their knowledge of project management tools and skills to practical problems.

Dr. George Jergeas, P.Eng.
George is a Professor of the Project Management in the Schullich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he is involved in both the teaching of and research into project management since 1994.

He has over thirty years of experience, principally in infrastructure projects and claims and disputes. He is also an active project management consultant for both public and private sector organizations in Canada and has provided extensive project management training to many Canadian, American and international companies.

George’s research and teaching focuses on improving project alignment and building and sustaining project teams. He also works as a coach and trainer for managers and executives. He assisted project teams in oil sands developments, hospitals, roads and bridges, tunneling, LRT expansions and mining projects. As a claims consultant investigated many construction projects, both in Canada and the USA, George gained insight into the fundamental causes of project success and failure. Through his experience and research, George has developed a strong interest in improving project success founded upon improving the effectiveness of project teams.