Outreaching, Recruitment and Retention
For Aboriginal Employment Workshop

Ripple Effects, Ltd. facilitates this FULL DAY workshop specifically designed for human resource personel and hiring decision managers in organizations committed to outreaching to the Aboriginal community for talent, recruiting these qualified individuals to successfully retain and develop them within the company.The workshop facilitation and resource materials will provide your organization with the tools required to accomplish Aboriginal employment inclusion.

Proven outcomes include an organization's ability to effectively Outreach, Recruit, Retain, and Develop qualified Aboriginal employees.

If you are going to play the game . . . You should know the rules of engagement!

Objectives

This course's focus is to outreaching to the Aboriginal community for talent, recruiting these qualified individuals to successfully retain and develop them within the company. To this end our objectives are:

To create understanding, awareness and knowledge of Aboriginal peoples; to effectively build employment strategies to bring together the Aboriginal labour supply and the employment demands of Canadian employers;
To develop strategic and effective methods for outreaching to the Aboriginal people and communities;
To effectively recruit screen and select qualified Aboriginal individuals; in a fair and equitable manner based on the merit principle;
To retain Aboriginal employees and provide professional development opportunities so they can reach their full potential in the organization.

Goals

To create fair and equitable workplaces that values all the employees in the workplace and potential Aboriginal employees;
To nurture the workplace by providing awareness to increase understanding of workforce diversity and the employment inclusion of Aboriginal people;
To develop human resource strategies and gain insightful tools to effectively outreach, recruit, screen, select and retain Aboriginal people to the workplace;
To enhance the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and their communities;
To create the business case for Aboriginal inclusion in the workplace.

Agenda

Our one-day workshop generally follows a fixed agenda. We can create custom agendas to meet your company's needs and desired outcomes.

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
1:00pm - 2:30pm
House of Learning
Social Styles
Preparing the Organization
Workplace
Community Support
Outreaching
Community Interaction
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Health Break
2:45pm - 4:30pm
Recruitment and Retention
Questions
Evaluations
4:30pm - 4:45pm
Closing and "THANK YOU"

08:00am - 08:30am
Continental Breakfast, Coffee, Juice and Muffins
08:30am - 10:00am
Introduction
Expectations,
Objectives
Goals
Quiz
10:00am - 10:15am
Health Break
10:15am - 12:00pm
Terminology
Populations
Statistics
Residential Schools
Impact of Industrialization

Facilitators

The Ripple Effects Aboriginal Awareness Training Workshop is facilitated by Robert Laboucane. Robert has extensive knowledge and insight about the Aboriginal people in Canada.

Making informed decisions is a critical business responsibility.

The Outreaching, Recruitment and Retention for Aboriginal Employment Workshop will provide your organization with the information needed in order to build effective and positive relationships with the Aboriginal people.

Current Outreaching, Recruitment and Retention client list: