City of Selkirk

Selkirk is a sustainable, innovative and growing city with a hometown feel. A vibrant regional hub for commerce, culture and recreation, that strives to provide the best opportunities an urban centre can offer. They know that to be successful, they must build and maintain a skilled, creative, engaged and nimble local civil service.

The City of Selkirk believes in continuous learning and that having a leadership culture lay the foundation to foster growth and opportunity for our employees. They invest in their people right from the start and help them reach new goals throughout their career.

In 2019, after consulting with various stakeholders, the HR team developed Career GPS to complement our existing leadership training. Career GPS is a new, innovative program that allows employees to take charge of their career planning, in consultation with and support from, the management team and HR.This program guides employees through career visioning and exploration exercises and provides insight into how they can prepare themselves for the careers available within the city. Employees receive support and guidance in planning their development route and assistance with financial and other resources they may require to reach their destination.The Career GPS program has allowed us to open our internal candidate pool, which is vital in a smaller labour market like Selkirk, and go past basic succession planning. Not only does this program help the city maintain its workforce by creating opportunities for employees within our organization, but also contributes to the availability of skilled workers in our community, by opening new opportunities for our employees outside of our organization.

Ubisoft Winnipeg

 Ubisoft Winnipeg is part of the Ubisoft worldwide studios family, a collective of AAA game development teams dedicated to creating immersive, engaging worlds for our players around the world.

Ubisoft Winnipeg has focused on making a difference for women since the opening of their studio in 2018. Women remain underrepresented in STEM, technology and in the video game industry, especially at the leadership level, and the studio wanted to look for ways they could make a concrete impact. As the studio grew and welcomed more women to the team, they looked for leadership training, and in early 2019, decided to build a custom leadership program for women at Ubisoft called Nova. They consulted with the women in our studio and the Women’s Advisory Board (an Employee Resource Group) and worked with an external consultant to develop the program over six months. It was launched in 2020 and continues to be delivered to all the women in the studio to empower and support them in reaching their goals.

New Media Manitoba

New Media Manitoba (NMM) is the Sector Council for Information, communication and digital technologies - a non-profit association dedicated to supporting Manitoba’s Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Industry.

NMM fosters growth in the IDM industry through education and skills training, creating IDM workforce awareness, collaboration with K12 through post secondary, business development, emerging talent, employment diversity programs and government advocacy work.

The New Media Manitoba Employment Diversity Program offsets the costs incurred by eligible IDM companies in Manitoba when hiring individuals from underrepresented groups for skilled roles in the IDM sector.

This initiative is designed to help increase diversity & inclusion in the IDM industry and help companies secure talented new staff. Applications are scored on criteria assessing the applicant company’s understanding of issues of diversity & inclusion, as well as the applicant company’s preparedness to provide an appropriately safe workplace where underrepresented persons can thrive in IDM. So far, the initiative has placed a substantial number of diverse hires in various member companies while ensuring a mutually beneficial working employer/employee relationship and positive work culture. This has resulted in a 95% retention rate.

Ubisoft Winnipeg

Ubisoft Winnipeg is part of the Ubisoft worldwide studios family, a collective of AAA game development teams dedicated to creating immersive, engaging worlds for our players around the world.

The Ubisoft Winnipeg studio is part of a global company that recognizes that diversity, inclusion and equity will look different in every country and community we operate in. In Winnipeg, the studio has increased their efforts over the last year to build relationships with, support, and learn from the Indigenous communities in Winnipeg and Manitoba. As a business that brings many newcomers to Winnipeg and to Canada, they also wanted to ensure they are providing education on the city and country they have come to and fostering positive relationships from their first days in Winnipeg. Over the last year, Ubisoft Winnipeg has partnered with local Indigenous Elder Brian McLeod of Strong Heart Consultation to develop and provide ongoing training to their studio on History & Contemporary Indigenous Issues and Cultural Competency & Humility Development, along with materials to support team members with ongoing learning and understanding after the training. A valued partnership has developed, including consultation on recommendations for HR and Studio policies to ensure they can better reach and supporting Indigenous applicants and team members, and making this training a standard part of the studio’s onboarding. In addition to this partnership, ongoing learning and engagement opportunities are provided to team members throughout the year ranging from  incorporating work from a local Indigenous maker in the studio design to honouring Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, and providing resources for their team to reflect, learn and take action that were shared at Ubisoft studios across Canada.

City of Winnipeg 
Occupational Health Services Team

The City of Winnipeg Public Service employs 10,400 employees. It provides a wide range of crucial city services to the public, such as infrastructure and transportation, police and fire/paramedic services, community recreation and livability services, city planning, taxation services, and all the legislative internal support services, including HR. The City's Human Resource Team consists of almost 150 staff, eight Specialty HR Teams, eight Generalist Teams that take care of the people’s needs for our complex workforce, which keeps our city running. As a Public Service and HR department, they focus on achieving effective and efficient HR service delivery leading to a collaborative, safe and engaged workforce. We are committed to providing our employees with the tools to work in a safe, healthy, respectful environment and encourage innovative ideas and an accountable healthy workforce.

The City of Winnipeg's Occupational Health (OH) team is part of that workforce and continues to play an instrumental role in their staff and workplace's daily health. They are essential in Emergency Preparedness Plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The OH team provides ongoing support and medical consultation to their employees, conducting internal contact investigations to help mitigate risk and post-positive case management. They act as the primary liaison between the City and Public Health. This work primarily impacts Emergency Services teams that provide critical responses to Fire, Police and Ambulance emergencies.

City of Winnipeg 
Safety Services Team

The City of Winnipeg Public Service employs 10,400 employees and provides a wide range of crucial city services to the public, such as infrastructure and transportation, police and fire/paramedic services, community recreation and livability services, city planning, taxation services – along with all the legislative internal support services including HR. The City's Human Resource Team consists of almost 150 staff, nine Specialty HR Teams, eight Generalist Teams that take care of the people’s needs for our complex workforce, which keeps our city running. The City Safety Service Team has 32 employees located in every major department and are run centrally by the Corporate HR Services Division.

As a Public Service and HR department, they focus on achieving effective and efficient HR service delivery leading to a collaborative, safe and engaged workforce. They are committed to providing employees with the tools to work in an environment that is safe, healthy, respectful, and encourages innovative ideas and an accountable, healthy and safe workforce. The City of Winnipeg has become one of the largest aggregates of SAFE Work Certified workplaces in the province and a champion for Manitoba's safety and health certification standard. Over the past year, certification was achieved in many departments, including Asset and Project Management, Planning Property & Development, Winnipeg Transit, Winnipeg Police Service, and many units in Water and Waste. This is in addition to Community Services Department and Winnipeg Fleet Management Agency, which had previously certified.

The City of Winnipeg has played a critical role in SAFE Work Manitoba's strategy to reduce injuries and illnesses in Manitoba's public sector. In addition to achieving certification internally, the organization has led an Industry Based Safety Program to provide a path for other self-insured employers to certify and has adopted the standard as a benchmark for its contractors.

DealerPILOT HR

DealerPILOT HR Automation provides automated HR and H&S support and advisory services to the automotive industry. They are a completely virtual company who take pride in their people and their values.

The wellness program was an initiative designed to ensure that their people were supported and empowered in ways that were personal and productive for them as individuals. Our wellness program is unique because it addresses the needs of multiple people in personal ways, that are primarily virtual in nature. The belief that their people come first has guided leadership in every aspect of the employee experience and the embedding of a wellness program is just a part of that experience. The launch of this initiative has been a driver in how they do business going forward with a unified and empowered approach.

F.H. Black and Company

F.H. Black and Company (FHB) is a full-service consulting firm comprised of human resource and accounting professionals who work with clients across Canada in a broad sector of industries. FHB prides itself in being a generous, compassionate, and progressive employer that offers a myriad of perks to its employees, including the ability to bring your pet to work each day, fitness memberships, flexible working arrangements and enhanced vacation entitlements. FHB employees are highly valued and as such, their goal is to make work life at FHB so great that they would never work anywhere else.

When Covid surprised our world and impacted all areas that had become so ingrained, the connection with staff became fragmented. Recognizing that staff needed to remain engaged, needed to feel part of community and could be feeling isolated, fearful, lonely, and anxious about the future, FHB offered a unique way to stay together – virtual fitness programming.

Through regularly scheduled zoom classes offered on a daily basis at lunch hour, FHB provide staff with a vehicle to join together safely and workout as a team. Fortunately, due to two FHB partners being registered fitness trainers with access to a gym full of equipment, they were able to provide online training and equipment free of charge to anyone who wanted to partake. Families joined in, employees were receptive to an opportunity to learn something new and appreciated the ability to have a physical, active outlet in the middle of the workday that was safe and efficient.

The impact of Covid has been life changing for the firm and for its employees. FHB has transformed from being an “in person” traditional corporate structure to an almost solely remote workforce. They have created a 32 hour work week for staff and have developed highly unique initiatives such as virtual fitness training for everyone – offerings that are unheard of in other firms. FHB is committed to continuous improvement and will always put employee wellness above all else!

Film Training Manitoba

Founded in 1999, Film Training Manitoba (FTM) is a non-for-profit charity and member of the Province of Manitoba’s sector council program through the Department of Economic Development and Jobs. FTM builds a highly skilled and adaptable film industry workforce to support the activities of Manitoba production companies. FTM collaborates with stakeholder organizations and other members of the film and television industry to identify the training needs within the community.

Throughout the pandemic, Film Training Manitoba has taken a leading role within Canada’s film industry at providing industry specific COVID-19 training. The development of FTM’s COVID-19 training demonstrated our decisive action to support safety on Manitoba’s film sets. These challenging times required FTM to adapt and launch industry specific COVID-19 training for Manitoba's film industry. FTM launched and created three COVID-19 courses which were held live via Zoom nineteen times. Over 600 Manitoba film industry participants attended FTM's live in-class COVID-19 training sessions. Following each training session, FTM conducted participants’ surveys of the learning and all three courses' participant evaluations were excellent with some of the most positive feedback in FTM's 20-year history. The level and amount of COVID-19 training FTM provided for Manitoba's film industry is unmatched anywhere in Canada.

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, according to the Film Commission (Manitoba Film & Music), our Province achieved $171 million of production during the 2020-2021 fiscal year. In addition, production levels are on target to pass that mark in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. During this time-frame, there has been no documented spread of COVID-19 on Manitoba film sets.