BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131120T150000Z DTEND:20131120T183000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Capitalizing on Critical Skills - Your Real Competitive Advantage DESCRIPTION:Join Charlotte Larocque\, President/Executive Director of Spirit Staffing & Consulting Brandon as she talks about Capitalizing on Critical Skills - Your Real Competitive Advantage.\n\n\n\nWe are experiencing a paradigm shift from an employer's market to an employee's market. As employers try to attract and retain quality people while preparing for the perceived skilled labour shortage of 2020\, we must take a hard\, honest look at where we are today. Soft skills are what fosters great team performance\, and leads people to contribute strongly to the organization's vision and strategy\, thus\, creating loyalty\, engagement and retention a positive culture. That is what will move your workforce into the Future!\n\n\n\nWith soft skills\, individuals can excel as leaders. Problem solving\, delegating\, motivating\, and team building are all much easier if employees have good soft skills. Knowing how to get along with people and displaying a positive attitude are crucial for the individual's success and the success of the company. The problem is\, the importance of these soft skills is often undervalued or overlooked\, and there is far less training provided for them than hard skills. \n\nWhen your workforce has lots of technical skills and few soft skills\, you have a dry soft skills ravine. Soft skills are what accompany the hard skills\, and help your organization maximize on its technical expertise.\n\nIf you have lots of staff turnover and have to keep retraining people\, chances are you have a dry soft skills ravine. Each new hire costs approximately 3 months salary to train.\n\nThe fact is the act of listening\, communicating effectively\, presenting ideas\, resolving conflict\, and fostering an open and honest work environment all comes down to knowing how to build and maintain relationships with people. It's those relationships that allow people to participate fully as a team\, show appreciation for others\, work collectively towards the common goal and prosper within a company.\n\n\n\nHosted by:\n\nBrandon Chamber of Commerce\n\nEntrepreneurship Manitoba\n\nEconomic Development Brandon X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join Charlotte Larocque\, President/Executive Director of Spirit Staffing &\; Consulting Brandon \;as she talks about Capitalizing on Critical Skills - Your Real Competitive Advantage.
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\nWe are experiencing a paradigm shift from an employer'\;s market to an employee'\;s market. As employers try to attract and retain quality people while preparing for the perceived skilled labour shortage of 2020\, we must take a hard\, honest look at where we are today. Soft skills are what fosters great team performance\, and leads people to contribute strongly to the organization'\;s vision and strategy\, thus\, creating loyalty\, engagement and retention a positive culture. That is what will move your workforce into the Future!
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\nWith soft skills\, individuals can excel as leaders. Problem solving\, delegating\, motivating\, and team building are all much easier if \;employees have \;good soft skills. Knowing how to get along with people and displaying a positive attitude are crucial for the individual'\;s success and the success of the company. The problem is\, the importance of these soft skills is often undervalued or overlooked\, and there is far less training provided for them than hard skills. \n\n

When your workforce has lots of technical skills and few soft skills\, you have a dry soft skills ravine. Soft skills are what accompany the hard skills\, and help your organization maximize on its technical expertise.

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If you have lots of staff turnover and have to keep retraining people\, chances are you have a dry soft skills ravine. Each new hire costs approximately 3 months salary to train.

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The fact is the act of listening\, communicating effectively\, presenting ideas\, resolving conflict\, and fostering an open and honest work environment all comes down to knowing how to build and maintain relationships with people. It'\;s those relationships that allow people to participate fully as a team\, show appreciation for others\, work collectively towards the common goal and prosper within a company.
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\nHosted by:
\nBrandon Chamber of Commerce
\nEntrepreneurship Manitoba
\nEconomic Development Brandon

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\n LOCATION:Royal Oak Inn & Suites 3130 Victoria Ave. UID:e.1595.51 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260421T152351Z URL:https://dev.brandonchamber.ca/events/details/capitalizing-on-critical-skills-your-real-competitive-advantage-11-20-2013-51 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR