Career Boot Camp 2015: Preliminary Program – Webcast (Across Canada)

Tools for Success

Unless indicated otherwise, all sessions are bilingual with simultaneous interpretation.
Please log in to the webcast 15 minutes before the start of each session.

Event Objective: To develop and hone the tools, techniques and skills you need to best perform at your current level, to pursue your professional goals and ultimately to succeed in your career, whatever your aspirations.

8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. (EST)

WELCOMING REMARKS

Lisa Sullivan, National Coordinator of the Canada Revenue Agency Young Professionals Network and Chair of the Federal Youth Network

Objective: To present a general overview of the day's objective and to help you better identify the tools you need to succeed in your career.

8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. (EST)

OPENING ADDRESS: PUBLIC SERVANT IDENTITY – EN ROUTE TO 2020

Nicolino Frate, Assistant Director, Canada Revenue Agency

Objectives: To present the Federal Youth Network pillars of career success, making linkages to Blueprint 2020, and to provide you with the fundamentals of a practical toolkit.

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. (EST)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: PUSHING YOUR CAREER FORWARD

Janice Charette, Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet

Objectives: To foster a better understanding of how you can influence your growth and development at all levels of your career.

9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (EST)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: TOOLS FOR WORK/LIFE INTEGRATION

Diane Lorenzato, Assistant Commissioner, Canada Revenue Agency

Objectives: To emphasize the importance of finding skills and tools that enable you to integrate your professional and personal lives in a way that ensures balance, allows you to meet both personal and professional needs and enables you to achieve greater overall success.

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. (EST)

WORKSHOP: LEADERSHIP TOOLS – LEADING AT ALL LEVELS
(English with simultaneous interpretation)

Objective: To develop or refine the skills you need to be an effective leader in all areas of the workplace, regardless of your level, and thereby succeed in your career.

12:45 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EST)

PANEL: TOOLS FOR SUCCESS AT DIFFERENT STAGES IN YOUR CAREER

John Dolimount, A/Regional Director General, Canada Border Services Agency

Jodi LeBlanc, Advisor, Values and Ethics, Veterans Affairs Canada and Outreach and Engagement Advisor, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Stephen MacKenzie, Manager, Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal, Province of Nova Scotia

Objective: To highlight the importance of mobilizing and mastering different sets of skills over the course of your career.

1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EST)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: BE THE LEADER OF YOUR CAREER

Objectives: To demonstrate the value and importance of taking charge of your career and to convey the importance of actively participating in your personal career development.

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EST)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE ART OF SPEAKING FOR SUCCESS (English with simultaneous interpretation)

Christina Lubbock, Voice Matters

Objectives: To communicate how to improve your public speaking skills and their importance in engaging and inspiring your audience from peers to senior executives.

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST)

WORKSHOP: TOOLS FOR WORKING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD (English with simultaneous interpretation)

Christopher Allison, Senior Program Coordinator, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Objective: To understand the functions and utilities of virtual collaboration platforms and the ways they can provide leverage for you and your team.

5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (EST)

CLOSING REMARKS

Graham Flack, Deputy Minister, Canadian Heritage and Champion of the Federal Youth Network

Liseanne Forand, President, Shared Services Canada

Objective: To highlight the importance of collaboration by demonstrating how forming networks, partnerships and lasting relationships can influence careers; to encourage you to continue to invest in yourself and reflect on the wide range of tools for success that can be mobilized to enhance your strengths.