Queen's IRC

10/15/2026

How you handle a grievance can shape what happens long after it’s resolved.

Join Queen’s IRC’s Grievance Handling program to build a more proactive approach to managing workplace conflict and strengthening labour-management relationships.

Develop practical skills to:
- Recognize when and how conflict escalates
- Prepare for effective grievance meetings
- Assess options for resolution
- Identify patterns that can inform future workplace strategies

Whether you represent management or a union, build the confidence to navigate the grievance process with purpose.

📍 Kingston, ON
📅 November 16–20, 2026

Explore the program and register: https://bit.ly/4BqnUeb

Learn to prevent, manage & navigate the grievance process effectively in unionized workplaces. Develop skills and a big-picture perspective.

10/12/2026

10/09/2026

Your organization is growing. Can its structure keep up?

Through Queen’s IRC’s Organizational Design program, step into an immersive simulation where you'll make organizational design decisions and discover how your choices affect people, processes, and business performance as the company scales.

What looks promising on paper may play out differently in practice. Test your thinking, explore the trade-offs, and learn from the results in a safe environment.

Take what you learn back to your workplace with practical insights to help align your organization’s structure with its strategy.

Ready to take on the challenge? Join us November 3-5, 2026.

💡 Explore the program: https://bit.ly/48Yg934

Discover a modern approach to organizational design that balances agility, innovation, and ex*****on. Learn from a proven framework.

10/05/2026

What makes negotiation training stick? Getting to the table.

At Queen’s IRC, you’ll spend a full week putting collective bargaining strategies into practice. Work through a detailed bargaining simulation, receive in-the-moment coaching, and learn alongside professionals from both union and management perspectives.

Our July Negotiation Skills session in Victoria earned our highest participant satisfaction rating. Now we’re bringing that Queen’s University experience to Toronto from October 19–23.

Come ready to test your approach, sharpen your table skills, and leave with tools you can use in your next round of bargaining.

Explore the program: https://bit.ly/3HsthC1

Master the art of collective bargaining. Learn effective strategies, changing approaches and best practices at the bargaining table.

10/02/2026

Is your workforce strategy ready for what's next?

Join us on October 6 at 1 PM ET for a live webinar and explore how data, analytics, AI and workforce planning can help HR leaders anticipate talent needs and drive business impact.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4ixKbiZ

Join us for a one-hour webinar exploring how HR leaders can use data, analytics, AI, and workforce planning to drive real business impact. Learn why strategic workforce planning has become a business-critical capability and explore emerging practices for identifying the workforce capabilities organi...

10/01/2026

Congratulations to Sean and Kartikay on earning their Advanced Labour Relations Certificates. Their hard work and dedication were recognized in style alongside our ceremonial bagpiper at the end of our Managing Unionized Environments course in Calgary last week.

10/01/2026

Your business strategy depends on your people. Is your human capital strategy keeping pace?

AI, workforce pressures, and economic uncertainty are changing how organizations approach talent, leadership, and performance. For HR leaders, this creates an opportunity to shape decisions that reach well beyond the HR function.

In “The State of Human Capital Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities in 2026,” Ian Cullwick, Dale Daniels, and Greg Honey examine what these shifts mean for organizations, including the need for stronger leadership accountability and a more connected, human-centred approach to people strategy.

📖 Explore perspectives on strengthening the connection between your people priorities and organizational results. Read on now:
https://bit.ly/4hq5PoA

The complex 2026 environment is driving a more human-centred conversation about a cohesive strategy based on principles and values, purpose and engagement, and organizational-employee fit. The response has major implications for executive leadership and Boards of Directors, and must extend beyond in...

09/23/2026

Everyone loves Lola! She is a known around our office for her exuberant warmth and excellent fashion choices. What’s even more impressive is that she is a CHRE, CHE, has an Executive MBA and is the Vice President of People, Culture & Org Effectiveness. We are lucky enough to have her teach a few of our Advanced Human Resources programs.

This week she connected with attendees at the OMHRA conference in ‘A Blueprint for a People Strategy’ session. Weren’t able to be there? Don’t worry, we’ll link her most recent webinar in our bio.

09/22/2026

If you are attending OMHRA 2026 Fall Conference & Annual General Meeting in Ottawa this week, make sure to stop by our booth and say hello. We will be happy to tell you about our upcoming programs and stock you up with some IRC swag.

09/17/2026

Congratulations to Danielle and Geoffrey, who both completed their Organizational Development Fundamentals certificates today! We celebrate their dedication to learning and professional growth.
If you'd like to learn more about our certificate programs you can find more information in the link in our bio.