School does not have a monopoly on bullying. This is why the Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais Foundation is launching an online training platform for businesses, which it has called Defying Bullying. The goal is to make it possible to recognize the different forms of bullying and to ensure that workplaces are free of them. Is this a truly harmful situation? Or a simple lack of manners? Everything is explained in a series of six videos. Managers and employees alike will be able to learn about behaviors to watch for, ways to intervene, and ways to change their own behaviors in order to raise awareness and inspire people. According to the results of a study cited by the Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais Foundation, nearly 484,000 Quebec workers have suffered some form of harassment in the workplace over the previous 12 months.
Canadian CEOs believe that mastering advanced generative AI gives them a competitive advantage. 64% feel this way, according to an IBM Business Value Research Institute survey of 3,000 CEOs conducted in 30 countries. Elsewhere in the world, it’s more like 59% who feel like they have this advantage thanks to generative AI. However, it’s not easy to recruit qualified tech talent, say 58% of Canadian CEOs surveyed, and 52% note they’re recruiting for roles that didn’t exist last year because of generative AI. Furthermore, 62% of Canadian CEOs see that automation brings productivity gains so great that they are willing to accept a risk.
Do you know about intrapreneurship? According to the latest Intraprez survey! conducted by Malette for the Regroupement des Jeunes Chambres de Commerce du Québec, only 30% of young workers aged 18 to 40 are aware of it. More than 500 individuals and 10 companies participated in this consultation. A majority of 54% admit to not knowing what it is, while 16% are not sure they know the concept: an employee who proposes and develops a project for his organization. 11% of workers surveyed say they have a high intention to propose a project. However, those who have carried out projects say they have had positive outcomes such as personal development (51%), the development of entrepreneurial skills (51%) and participation in the growth of the business leading to an increase in income and productivity (48%).
This is the theme of the 30th edition of the Montreal Conference, which will take place at the Bonaventure Hotel, in downtown Montreal, from June 10 to 12. The International Economic Forum of the Americas, which organizes the event, has invited well-known speakers here such as Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, but also from elsewhere, such as Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker, the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, Joachim Nagel, president of the Federal Bank of Germany, François Villeroy de Galhau, governor of the Bank of France, or Lambert Hogenhout, head of data, analysis and emerging technologies at the Secretariat of the Nations United. Several issues will be addressed, including decision-making in the digital age, seeding a sustainable future, overcoming market disruptions and navigating great inflation. Ticket prices range from $350 to $5,000.
Canadians are being asked this week to activate their out-of-office message for four hours, the average minimum duration of a migraine, in solidarity with people living with this problem. The national Out of Office Migraine Awareness campaign is organized by Migraine Canada and Migraine Québec, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, as part of Migraine Awareness Month. More than 5 million Canadians live with migraine. Its prevalence peaks around age 30 or 40, an age at which most people are working but do not have family doctors to help them. “If we can make a healthcare worker aware of the fact that migraine exists, that we have clear diagnostic criteria, that we now have good medications that are targeted to the disease, and that we help many people who are relatively young to be much more functional in the years they should be, then that will be good,” says the president of Migraine Québec, Dr. Heather Pim, assistant professor of neurology at the University of Montreal and director from the CHUM headache clinic.