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Teaming for Today's Complex Challenges 
By Brenda Barker Scott
People working collectively make organizations hum. No matter the task - a radical productivity improvement, a breakthrough innovation, the development of an exceptional customer service culture - people must join together and invest their heads, hearts, and wills to get the job done. When people, with various and relevant skills and perspectives, join around challenges that matter, their collective efforts produce innovations that get implemented.
At its core, facilitating teamwork is about creating space for people to collectively design and execute smart and doable strategies. Reacting to technological and social trends, savvy leaders are placing greater emphasis on learning, knowledge sharing, and collaboration in an effort to develop, access, and integrate the talents of their colleagues.
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You may also be interested in our Building Smart Teams program
that is running Sept. 20-23, 2011 in Kingston.
The Advanced LR Certificate: What's in it for you?
By Anne Grant
Last spring, Queen's IRC launched a new certificate - Advanced Labour Relations. Designed to address the advanced learning needs of the practicing labour relations professional, this programming builds on the established LR Certificate. This article provides a brief overview of the content of this new program. 
Building on the level of knowledge, skills, and abilities required by LRPs in theworkplace (See LRP Competency Framework, Grant, 2011), the advanced certificate moves beyond training in traditional activities, such as collective bargaining, mediation, and arbitration. The NEW Advanced LR Certificate focuses on fact-finding, strategic grievance handling as well as building and managing effectiveunion-management relationships.
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The first program for the Advanced LR certificate is
Mastering
Fact-Finding and Investigation.
It is being offered this fall in Victoria, Oct. 31-Nov 3, 2011.
Ontario experts pessimistic about the future:
Ontario 2020 Delphi forecast 
By Cathy Sheldrick
Last year, OPSEU brought together business, labour, government, and community agencies for an in-depth exploration of the possible futures for Ontario with Ontario 2020. The Ontario 2020 Delphi forecast has now been released, which shows that experts are concerned and pessimistic about the future of the province.
IRC Director Paul Juniper was a member of the steering committee for the Ontario 2020 project, which included a two-day conference in Toronto. Experts in four areas - community services, the economy, education and health care - were invited to evaluate how the province will develop in the next decade. Four possible scenarios of the future were assessed for each of the key areas.
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