APEGBC: Benchmarking: Building the Foundation for Global Innovation

Hyatt Regency Vancouver 655 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Taking companies from where they are now, to where they want to be. The service sector represents 70% of the Canadian economy and our GDP is growing more slowly than almost any OECD nation. Is your company’s performance the very best it can be? Process benchmarking has a strong record of accomplishment. It identifies target […]

APEGBC: Making the Case for the Business Case

Hyatt Regency Vancouver 655 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

How to Improve Business Decision Making Engineers are regularly tasked with solving complex engineering problems for their clients. Identifying different alternate routes or products, value engineering to optimize costs versus outcomes. But often times when it comes to making decisions about their own engineering firm, the approach is ad‐hoc at best, non‐existent at worse! Hence the need for the […]

ICBA: The President’s Job Description

Accent Inn Burnaby 3777 Henning Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Did you wake up one day and realize that your company had gotten far bigger than you ever imagined? There were more bills to pay, staff to keep busy and less time for you to spend on what you’d always done best – your trade. This evolution is the rule far more than the exception […]

$200

ICBA: The Winner’s Curse

Accent Inn Burnaby 3777 Henning Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada

A systems approach to winning more work and increasing profits.  What is the winner's curse? Whoever makes the biggest estimating mistake wins the job. First, the bad news: Successful companies rarely "buy work" through discounting. Profitability is not the reward for hard work, good intentions, or being a "good guy". Now, the good news: Profitability […]

$52.50

20 Minutes To The Best Management Team

Fairmont Waterfront Hotel Princess Louisa Suite – 2 nd Floor, 900 Canada Place Way, Vancouver, Canada

What makes the best companies the best? Luck? Right time? Right place? Or is there more to it? The key to sustainable profit and results is a management team you can depend on freeing you to spend more time on strategic initiatives and business improvement. Imagine a company not constrained by your personal capacity. But […]

20 Minutes to the Best Management Team Ever

Vancouver Convention Centre West

The key to sustainable profit and results is a management team you can depend on, freeing you to spend more time on strategic initiatives and business improvement. Highly-effective leaders have figured out how to get the very best out of their people and it starts with 20 minutes a day. You know the potential for […]

$35

Leveraging Your Most Important (& Most Challenging) Asset

Employees are often the single largest fixed expense to your business, critical to your success while also one of the most complex and challenging aspects to manage in any business. RBC is pleased to present an engaging and insightful discussion on the drivers of turnover, what “employee engagement” really is and most importantly, what you […]