People & Places
This place in the office is frequently referenced in calendars but rarely visited voluntarily.
What is a boardroom?
You consult this person (role(s)) when you need decision and/or guidance on HR policy or strategy direction.
Who is your manager/director?
This phrase often appears on a slide when nobody quite knows the exact timing yet.
What is "TBD"?
This three-letter acronym is the final approval body that usually appears at the end of your project timeline.
What is PSC?
This product starts as Version 1 and often has a better character arc than most movie protagonists.
What is a deck/PPT presentation?
Among the destinations recently visited by two of our colleagues, this country is home to the Eiffel Tower.
What is France?
This annual activity ensures policies remain current, effective and compliant.
What is a compliance review?
If procrastination had a favourite software application, it might be this performance management system.
What is Forte?
If you're looking for information on pay, pensions and benefits in the OPS, you'll likely end up dealing with them.
What is OSS?
This person (role) always seems to know who the right contact is, even when nobody else does.
Who is the EA?
Often referred to as the "clowns of the sea," these birds were spotted by one of our Team Leads during a recent trip to Newfoundland.
What are puffins?
This document helps ministries connect business priorities with workforce strategies.
What is a People Plan?
This type of virtual meeting often starts with "we'll just wait another minute for people to join".
What is a Teams meeting?
This acronym sounds like a university degree but is actually a key leadership level between Director and CTO.
What is ADM?
This character's special ability is guiding a project through multiple ministries, competing viewpoints, and shifting priorities while nobody actually reports to them.
Who is a SPA?
Home to the national animal that happens to be a unicorn, this country was recently visited by our Director.
What is Scotland?
If you miss this monthly table of deputy ministers, your timelines may suddenly become much more interesting.
What is DM HRC?
This process can take three days, three weeks, or three months, often increasing with hierarchy and sometimes depending on the alignment of the stars!
What is the approvals process?
Just because there isn't an actual problem doesn't mean there isn't one of these. In the OPS, perception matters too.
What is COI?
These groups arrive with valuable feedback, new perspectives and questions that sometimes lead to a program review.
Who are corporate/program partners?
This vibrant city, home to one of the world's longest outdoor covered escalators and over 7 million residents, is where one of our colleagues pursued their studies.
What is Hong Kong?
This sounds like a birthday milestone, but actually represents the number of non-compensation HR policies the branch leads across the OPS.
What is 16?
This phrase is commonly heard three minutes into a virtual meeting.
What is "you're on mute"?
This legislation encourages Ontarians to think beyond stairs, tiny fonts, and "you can just ask for help."
What is AODA?
No matter how carefully this product is created (often in Excel), someone always asks if we can shift the timelines.
What is the project plan?