CST: Human Resource Practices

Description

Construction supervisors often play a key role in ensuring human resource regulations, policies and practices are applied fairly and consistently on the work site. To do so, supervisors need to interpret and apply human resource management policies and practices as defined by the company and/or by the industry.

The Human Resource Practices module is intended to help you gain a clear understanding of your roles and responsibilities related to the application of human resource policies and legislation. You will discuss human resource related legislation such as employment standards and workplace health and safety. You will also look at common policy areas such as employee selection, training and development, harassment, substance abuse, attendance policies and your responsibilities for applying these policies on the worksite.

This 6.5 hour module provides you with a course certificate worth 1 Gold Seal Credit.

Topics:

• Find the Best People
• Onboard New Hires
• Manage Performance
• Use Legislation as a Resource
• Put HR Policies to Practice
• Let People Go: Terminating Employment Respectfully and with Dignity

Intended Audience

Up-and-coming and mid-level Supervisors

Speaker

Josée Larocque-Patton, HR ICU

Josée is not your typical HR professional — and that’s exactly the point.

With more than 25 years of Human Resources experience, Josée has built her career around solving problems, navigating the uncomfortable stuff, and helping leaders deal with the people issues that don’t come with an instruction manual. From HR emergencies and crisis management to employee relations, performance challenges and building stronger workplaces, she’s known for bringing a practical, straightforward approach to HR.

Her HR career started far from the traditional office — on the water with Celebrity Cruise Lines and Disney Cruise Lines, eventually taking her to the Bahamas. After returning to Ontario, she spent more than a decade with Canada’s largest pharmaceutical company, gaining extensive experience in complex, fast-paced organizations.

Today, Josée is the trusted “go-to” HR partner for a variety on Construction Clients throughout Canada. 

She later launched The HR ICU, her own HR consulting firm, with one goal: to give small and medium-sized businesses access to experienced HR support without needing a full-time HR department. She works alongside owners and leaders on everything from mergers and acquisitions, employment agreements and hiring to policies, employee handbooks, Health & Safety, AODA, employee engagement, workplace issues and performance management.

In other words, when something involves people, Josée is usually somewhere in the middle of it — figuring it out.

She is also the author of Navigating HR – Simple Tips for People Leaders, available on Amazon,  was member of the Forbes Business Council, and a contributor to Forbes.com.

Josée believes HR doesn’t need to be complicated, overly corporate or buried in red tape. It needs to be practical, human and useful — because great HR isn’t about managing paperwork.

It’s about making HR simpler so leaders can spend less time navigating HR and more time leading and enjoying their people.  

Related Info

OCA launched the Construction Supervisor Training Certificate program in 2019 to provide a structured professional development program for the next generation of leaders in the field and office.

Effective construction supervision requires a wide variety of skills, such as people skills (communication, teamwork, conflict resolution, coaching), technical skills (planning, meetings and delegation), and management skills (human resources and authentic leadership).

This comprehensive program provides it all, and is delivered in manageable segments by industry experts with extensive hands-on experience in construction’s ICI sector. Participants have the flexibility to attend modules in any order. Once participants have completed all nine* courses, they will be awarded a Construction Supervisor Training (ICI) certificate.