Each year, the CPMEA offers our membership the opportunity to connect and engage with fellow CPMs across our campuses to help enhance their professional networks, all while receiving the benefits of learning programming and skills development opportunities through several lunch & learn sessions, Membership Breakfast and Annual General Meeting.
What is Lean? What does it mean when organizations start talking about 'getting lean' or 'leaning out'? What does value and knowing your customer have to do with Lean? Is there a way to apply Lean principles while adding value? Join Continuous Improvement Project Lead Jodi Tavares as she discusses the application of LEAN principles at York University. Learn about LEAN tools and how to apply them in our everyday context, to increase value, improve service, and re-focus on the customer.
Participants in this lunch and learn will leave with:
- Lean at York, and how Lean can be applied in our current context
- Defining a problem statement, and identifying customers
- Lean tools that increase value, and how to use them
- The role of the stakeholder in applying Lean
- Bringing decisions and work closer to the customer
Jodi Tavares is a Lean Sigma Green Belt, and is certified in Change Intelligence. A continuous improvement lead with the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Jodi has been a member of the PRASE team for 5 years. Using a combination of Lean, project management and change intelligence, Jodi works with functional leads to take improvement initiatives from Plan to Sustain.
About the Session:
Saying no in the workplace has its own unique challenges. Whether up-line or down-line, there are positive ways to set boundaries that don't limit your career. Join your CPM colleagues for an interactive, skill-building session.
Learning Outcomes:
- Strategic Thinking
- Strategic alignment
- Active listening
- Action-oriented conversations
- Delivering 'no' with panache
About the Speaker:
Mélissa thrives in creating order out of chaos. She lives in the space between structure and possibility offering a dynamic point of view as a trusted coach and project manager with deep leadership expertise. Mélissa has experience working in the public, para-public and private sectors in a variety of roles that have ranged from client service, people-management, strategic planning and directorial positions. She is currently the Senior Manager,National Administrative Operations for Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP. She brings the same passion and tenacity to managing a busy household and savouring all things viticulture.
Chase away the winter blahs with a delicious hot breakfast and time spent with your CPM colleagues. Enjoy a fully interactive session titled Networking PAYS - where participants will explore how to network purposefully, positively, authentically and effectively. Session outcomes include:
- new ideas about networking
- a pitch you can use to start conversations with new contacts
- maybe even some new York connections!
Karen Elkin is a dynamic coach, facilitator, trainer and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors. Karen’s career has included roles in organizational and leadership development, strategic human resources consulting, transformation and change management, marketing/communications, and music education, as well as board/executive membership for several nonprofit organizations.
Since launching her independent business in 2015, Karen has worked with clients in industries such as healthcare, research/technology, manufacturing, government, and telecommunications, and music. Her career in the Ontario Public Service spanned several ministries and roles. Previously, she leveraged her love of music both through her marketing and communications work with the Royal Conservatory of Music and its affiliates, and in her earliest jobs teaching music and playing piano for children’s dance classes.
Karen is passionate about learning and personal growth, and inside organizations works with managers and staff at all levels to inspire leadership development and a culture that supports the achievement of individual and organizational goals and success. As a coach, Karen’s insight, intuition, and recognition of her clients’ strengths foster increased self-awareness, clarity and confidence. As a facilitator, Karen creates a safe environment that encourages personal reflection and draws upon the participants’ experiences to support everyone’s learning and engagement as well as the workshop objectives. She believes that each of us has the power to choose ‘who’ we want to be in each moment, to lead ourselves, others, and our lives.
Karen is an iPEC Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership IndexTM Master Practitioner, an EmergeneticsTM Certified Associate, and a VIA Character Strengths (Positive Psychology) practitioner. She holds a BA in Arts Management from the University of Toronto and a MBA from the Schulich School of Business/York University, where she focused on Organizational Behaviour and Nonprofit Management & Leadership. She is a mother, a yoga and fitness enthusiast (most days), and can often be heard singing whether she has a willing audience or not.
People's views on business continuity planning vary from: "business … what?", "It's just common sense, isn't it?" to "Where do we start?" Join your CPM colleagues as we take a step back to consider how business continuity can benefit your unit, and how to begin crafting a solid plan. The harsh but simple fact is that there are a hundred and one things that can disrupt the delivery of service. A well thought out, practical plan can mean the difference between the continuation or suspension of service.
Participants in this session will leave with:
- An understanding of what business continuity is and why it's important
- A strategy to implement business continuity planning in a unit
- Tools and templates to assist you in the process
- A process for ongoing maintenance of your Business Continuity plan
Guest Speaker: Kathy Branton, Business Continuity and Emergency Management, Humber College
Join your CPM colleagues for breakfast and networking, we'll take you through our annual CPMEA update and elections, and finish off with a professional development session. Looking forward to connecting with each of you!
Agenda
9:00 AM Registration & Breakfast
9:10 AM Call to Order
9:15 AM Opening Remarks - Joanne Cary, AVP Human Resources & CHRO
9:20 AM Year in Review, Treasurer's Report, Member Elections
9:45 AM Keynote - Carmel Perry, Emotional Intelligence & Difficult Conversations
10:50 AM Election Results
10:55 AM Closing Remarks
Emotional Intelligence & Difficult Conversations
Participants will leave with:
- a clear understanding of Emotional Intelligence
- the connection between needs and feelings
- how to develop EI capacity
- how to communicate openly in difficult situations
Keynote Speaker - Carmel Perry
A Human Resources Certified Professional Leader (CHRL) and Coach, Carmel has completed training in Advanced Dispute Resolution with York University, Coaches training with Co-Active Training Institute and Emotional Intelligence with the Institute for Health and Human Potential. She is currently completin training with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication, is an active member of the HRPA and the International Coaches Federation.
Carmel's passion is connecting and collaborating with people as they face personal and professional difficulties, and helping them reach practical solutions and results. Many have appreciated her honest and forthright communication, strong motivation, advocacy and listening skills.
Carmel's 20+ years of experience includes working in profit, nonprofit and unionized organizations. Industry sectors include; Healthcare, Training and Development, Transport Automation and Distribution. She has worked with the Ontario Nurses’ Association for 16 years, coached managers, staff and members on Dispute Resolution and Difficult Conversations. She currently coaches individuals on Work and Personal Life challenges and Career Transition.
Carmel volunteers with the Human Resources Professional Association York Region, the Simcoe County Suicide Awareness Council and previously with Victim Services with York Regional Police for 8 years.
Join your CPM colleagues for a hot breakfast, table games and an opportunity to build your York network! Let's celebrate the start of a new academic year!
Join your CPM representative on the All University Pension Committee for an overview of upcoming proposed changes to York's Pension Plan. Darus Suharto will review the proposal and explain how changes will impact CPMs.
More and more, unique skill sets are needed to implement institutional change initiatives. In this session, participants will learn how to leverage Change Intelligence to build successful Implementation Teams. Using real examples from the Kuali/Curriculum Management Implementation Project, Project Lead Jodi Tavares will walk participants through identifying how change is led, how to build partnerships between complimentary team members, and leading a multi-approach implementation team.
Takeaways: participants will leave with - A clear understanding of change leadership styles - An outline on building complimentary partnerships within an implementation team - Lessons on leading a multi-approach implementation team.
Details to be confirmed.
Join your colleagues for the seventh annual CPMEA Membership Breakfast. Enjoy a hot breakfast, networking opportunities and a session on Developing Greater Life Satisfaction, presented by keynote Dr. Louise Hartley (PhD), director of York University’s Psychology Clinic.
Details of Session: 2018 was a difficult year with the long strike and the a newly elected provincial government which always leads to uncertainty about funding levels for us. So if you have noticed increased stress levels and a decreased sense of overall satisfaction – then you are not alone because these types of events and uncertainty will do that to you. This presentation will look at what each of us can do to assist ourselves in feeling greater satisfaction in our daily lives. Topics that will be covered include determining where to put our energy and how to let go of things that we can’t control; the power of language and optimism and what research tells us about happiness and how to increase it.
Dr. Louise Hartley 
is the director of York University’s Psychology Clinic. She is a registered, clinical psychologist and also holds a corporate coaching certificate. Dr. Hartley has expertise in the field of organizational development which includes both individual and team interventions designed to build healthy, engaged work environments. She is a mother of 2 adult children who has worked at York for 10 years.
