Events

As part of the Cape Breton Partnership’s Helping Businesses Respond During COVID-19 webinar series, the next session is scheduled for Tuesday, June 2, 2020. The Preparing to Reopen Cape Breton: Products and Services session will explore the products and services available locally to help Cape Breton businesses prepare to reopen, as well as those to consider once they are open again. Webinar details are below: • Topic: Preparing to Reopen Cape Breton: Products and Services • Subject matter experts: o Danielle Johnston, City Print + o Curtis Dolhanty, ServiceMaster Cape Breton • Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 • Time: 2 p.m. The session will be capped at 100 participants, however, the webinar will be recorded and shared on the Cape Breton Partnership website and social media channels to ensure the information is accessible to all. In an effort to support Cape Breton – Unama’ki businesses during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Cape Breton Partnership is hosting Helping Businesses Respond During COVID-19, a webinar series on topics identified by our business community. The Cape Breton Partnership is planning additional sessions in the coming weeks on a variety of topics. Future webinar sessions will be shared once details are confirmed. Register Now

Using the Pandemic to your Advantage Based on Eddie's best-selling book of the same name, this webinar is life-changing and always a hit with audience members. Many people will look back at this time of social distancing as a gift, a time to hit the reset button. Eddie will share ways to leverage this time to achieve goals in both your personal and professional life. Participants are guided through a path to help them understand how changing the way they think can have a profound impact on their future. You will discover that by focusing your attention and your emotions in the right direction, you will come out of this pandemic stronger and happier. Webinar participants will discover: The one statement that can change the direction of your life The role your emotions play on your success (especially during this time of COVID-19) The three steps to setting goals that stick Two ways to accelerate your success You will leave this session feeling energized and enthusiastic about your future. Register Now

In this webinar, the founder of Base Over Apex, Paul Watts, will address the appropriate way to be selling right now (whether you are an essential service or not). He will talk about the current climate, recognizing how our attitudes are affected by the stresses that we are all under right now and understanding that now, more so than ever before, is a time for us to be building our emotional intelligence muscles. He will discuss the importance of checking in with your customers during these challenging times (and we mean really checking in) and how to build a cadence of communication (cell, text, social and virtual). Also covered in this webinar is the importance of being visible, valuable and remaining connected on social media right now and how to protect your brand and that of your organization. What will be covered in the webinar: Current Climate Being Mindful of your Attitude Build Your Emotional Intelligence Muscle Really Checking-In with your colleagues, customers and prospects Building a cadence of communication Social Media is your friend and foe. Visible, Valuable and Connected Next Steps SPEAKER: PAUL WATTS CSL, CSP, CSE, SCPS In his 20+ Years B2B Sales and Sales Management experience, Paul received numerous […]

Design Thinking for Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning Online Workshop This event will be held on two dates: Thu, June 4, 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM ADT Wed, June 10, 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM ADT   This highly interactive and hands-on workshop offers a deep dive into AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies targeted at leaders responsible for creating disruptive new digital products & services. The program is intended for those with or without a strong background in machine learning, AI, and related technologies – no technical expertise is assumed. Participants can expect to walk away with a comprehensive understanding of how AI and machine learning work, as core technologies and a wide range of applications, including recommendation engines, personalization, predictive analytics, conversational/voice interfaces, and process automation. An overview of ethical or responsible AI frameworks will wrap up the workshop, to ensure that participants are equipped with the skills to think about how data bias, training scenarios and other factors can impact outcomes. Problem reframing methods, confusion matrices, error recovery optimization frameworks, and AI-focused ideation methods will all be introduced throughout the workshop. If you are a part of an underrepresented group and would like to attend this […]

Join Innovation, Learning & Leadership Specialist Laurie Cook of Chutzpah Consulting to learn how to become more proactive instead of reactive in dealing with Covid-19.  This interactive, online workshop will show you how to not just use Scenario Planning on your own, but also how you could involve other people on your leadership team, your employees and other stakeholders in helping you to innovate in a way so you can not just survive, but thrive. If there is one thing we can count on, it is that the world is a complex and chaotic place.  Covid-19 has just made it more so. Organizations that want to move beyond the shock and a day-to-day mindset of struggle related to Covid-19 will find Scenario Planning a very useful tool to help them do that. In this uniquely interactive session, you will learn: What Scenario Planning is all about The key components of scenario planning How to use a very simple but practical approach to doing scenario planning What kind of questions to ask, yourself and others, to move forward in a positive way How to think about your true purpose and focus on that Register Now

As part of the Cape Breton Partnership’s Helping Businesses Respond During COVID-19 webinar series, the next session is scheduled for Friday, June 5, 2020. Reopening Cape Breton with Nova Scotia’s Safety Branch session will discuss the role of the Nova Scotia Department of Labour and Advanced Education’s Safety Branch, how the Public Health direction helps guide the reopening of businesses, and what businesses need to think about as they develop their plans to reopen. Webinar details are below: Topic: Reopening Cape Breton with Nova Scotia’s Safety Branch Subject matter expert: • Christine Penney, Senior Executive Director, Nova Scotia Department of Labour & Advanced Education, Safety Branch The session will be capped at 100 participants, however, the webinar will be recorded and shared on the Cape Breton Partnership website and social media channels to ensure the information is accessible to all. In an effort to support Cape Breton – Unama’ki businesses during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Cape Breton Partnership is hosting Helping Businesses Respond During COVID-19, a webinar series on topics identified by our business community. The Cape Breton Partnership is planning additional sessions in the coming weeks on a variety of topics. Future webinar sessions will be shared once […]