People for Excellence
Launched in November 2024, this new program offers “top-up funding” to support employee training and supplement Local Education budgets.
What is the Central Education Fund?
This tool was designed to assist people leaders in gaining insights into their teams.
What is the Workday My Team Management dashboard?
Successful development and delivery of this major corporate education, connection and collaboration event that brought together approximately 1/3 of staff in May 2024.
What is the Education Seminar?
To further support our D&I Strategy, an Expression of Interest was held for these groups, resulting in 7 new members on-boarded.
What are the Women's Network and D&I Council?
Staff participated in 13 of these in 2024.
What are career events?
This program was developed in an effort to stimulate an increase in AIC designations.
What is the Appraisal Institute of Canada (AIC) Acceleration Pilot Program?
Implementation of new Workday functionality resulted in these for all staff participating in the Hybrid Workplace program.
What are refreshed Telework Agreements?
To streamline user experience, enhancements were made to the 2024/25 cycle of this.
What is the Performance Development Process (PDP)?
BONUS 100 pts if you can name at least two of the enhancements.
This training was first delivered to staff at the May 2024 Education Seminar, resulting in high ratings from participants.
What is Trauma-Informed Practice Training?
4700 of these were processed through Workday in 2024.
What are life cycle transactions?
After 5 months of intensive programming, this program saw dedicated managers graduate in April 2024.
What is the Understanding Management Strengths program?
Successful resolution of 12 of these by the Employee and Labour Relations team.
What are grievances?
The 2024 Excellence Awards had the theme of this, with a ceremony held in May 2024 recognizing 5 individuals and 1 team award recipients.
What are our Values?
Released in Q4 of 2023/24, this identifies key actions to attract, engage and retain those who identify as Indigenous and/or as persons with disabilities.
What is the 2024-2025 BCA Diversity Demographics Action Plan?
To align with new WorkSafeBC requirements, this program was reviewed and updated.
What is the Occupational Health & Safety program?
Enhancements to this program in 2024 resulted in a 43% increase over its Spring 2023 round, and a 51% increase over its Fall 2023 round.
What is the Scholarship program?
BONUS 100 pts if you can name the enhancements made to the program.
Positive and effective relationship with CUPE 1767 through this corporate committee, and enhanced collaboration with these regional committees.
What is the Joint Labour Relations Committee (Corporate and Regional committees)?
Filled with resources to help understand your personal and team Employee Voice dashboards, this allows people leaders to lead with informed decision-making and promote team engagement.
What is the People Leaders Toolkit?
D&I workplans incorporated recommendations from the Indigenous Community for Leadership & Development (ICLD) for this.
What is recruitment and retention of Indigenous talent?
In support of our People Strategic Initiative Career Paths, this was developed in collaboration with the Mass Appraisal Standards & Solutions (MASS) team.
What is the Assessment Analyst Education Matrix?
This program had 98 participants in 2024 - up from 50 participants in its first year.
What is the Emerging Leaders Mentorship program?
This resulted in 21 permanent and 17 temporary new hires in 2024 (including hiring rounds for Data Collectors and Appraisers in Jan-Mar 2024).
What does the strategic hiring of top talent to align with anticipated vacancies to manage the effects of turnover and improve transfer of knowledge result in?
Following the new internal Artificial Intelligence Review/Approval process, this was developed using the AI program Synthesia.
What is Digital Orientation?
What is inclusive language for job descriptions?
These education sessions were facilitated by the ER/LR and People Services teams to managers in 2024.
What are Introduction to Labour Relations, Overtime and Hours of Work, and Sick Leave and Other Absences?