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Date: November 2021, January 2022, February 2022

Pages: 6

A Series of Webinars delivered in 2021-2022 supporting workforce development in Kingston,
Frontenac County, Leeds and Grenville United Counties and Loyalist Township

Building on the momentum of their successful webinar series in 2020-2021, the Eastern Workforce Innovation Board continued their theme of “Three on Thursday” webinar series marketed to businesses located throughout Kingston, Frontenac and Leeds and Grenville Counties and delivered over a 5-month period. The promotional flyer, distributed via email, is attached. The flyer was also shared via Eventbrite.

Hiring and Developing the Best People – Facilitated by Dianne Reichenbach, Manager of Corporate Sales, Chapters-Indigo

Leadership in a COVID World – Facilitated by Angela Hoyt, CEO, Evolution Group Inc.

Moving Online – Standing Out in a Virtual World – Facilitated by Geneviève Gazaille, Communication Consultant and owner of The Storyteller, a company that helps businesses tell their story.

Date: April 2021

Pages: 33

Summary: In 2020, six workforce development boards across Eastern Ontario collaborated to develop and implement a common survey across Eastern Ontario for the 2021 EmployerOne survey. This report highlights results from the Eastern Workforce Innovation Board’s (EWIB) survey responses for the Frontenac County Census Area and Leeds and Grenville United Counties.

The survey was conducted between January 4, 2021 and February 26, 2021. It reflects labour market activity during 2020. This activity appeared to be impacted by the COVID19 pandemic and the related state of emergency and stay-at-home order which commenced in Ontario in March 2020.

167 surveys were completed (of 213 started) which is an increase from the 94 surveys completed in 2020. The survey responses represented all sectors with the exception of Public Administration and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in the Frontenac Census Area, and Wholesale Trade in the Leeds and Grenville United Counties Area.

While the survey results provide a snapshot into the local labour market for further discovery, the size of the sample is too small to be a representative sample of employers or sectors in the Frontenac Census Area or Leeds and Grenville United Counties.

Date: March 2021

Pages: 9

Summary: A Series of Webinars delivered in 2020-2021 supporting human resource management in Kingston, Frontenac County, Leeds and Grenville United Counties and Loyalist Township. In February 2020, the Eastern Workforce Innovation Board (EWIB) committed to the delivery of a series of training sessions to support the human resource practices of businesses in Frontenac County, Leeds and Grenville United Counties and Loyalist Township that would supplement EWIB’s online Human Resource Hub. Like so many businesses and services across Canada, EWIB was required to modify this plan to meet pandemic restrictions and in early April pivoted to a series of three webinars promoted as “Three on Thursdays”. The focus on human resource practices to support local business continued.

Date: January 2020

Pages: 18

Summary: In order to gather the views of businesses on the skilled trades in demand, the Ministry of Labor, Training and Skills Development has put the 26 workforce development commissions of Ontario to work. The Eastern Workforce Innovation Board obtained comments from eleven labor organizations, an industry association and 107 business representatives from Frontenac, the township of Loyalist and Leeds and Grenville. This report presents the results.

Date: January 2020

Pages: 2

Summary: In order to gather the views of businesses on the skilled trades in demand, the Ministry of Labor, Training and Skills Development has put the 26 workforce development commissions of Ontario to work. The Eastern Workforce Innovation Board obtained comments from eleven labor organizations, an industry association and 107 business representatives from Frontenac, the township of Loyalist and Leeds and Grenville. This report presents the results.

Date: February 2020

Pages: 31

Summary: Since 2015, the Eastern Council for Workforce Innovation has conducted the EmployerOne survey of local businesses to better understand the supply and demand for labor in our region. As of January 2020, a total of 634 local businesses have been surveyed – 328 completed in the Frontenac and Loyalist Township Census Division, and 262 in Leeds-Grenville.

Date: March 2019

Pages: 2

Summary: In 2018-2019, the Eastern Workforce Innovation Board formerly, 1000 Islands Region Workforce Development Board, continued to publish a quarterly newsletter re-launched in 2017. The newsletter summarizes business activity in the 1000 Islands region that impacts labour market demand; other ‘stuff you need to know’; people of interest and a set of useful links that serve as a valuable resource to readers.

Date: March 2019

Pages: 23

Since 2015, the Eastern Workforce Innovation Board formerly, 1000 Islands Region Workforce Development Board, has conducted the EmployerOne survey of employers to better understand labour market demand and supply in our region. To date, 328 responses have been received from Frontenac County and Loyalist Township employers and 209 from businesses located in the united Counties of Leeds and Grenville.

The 2018-2019 survey conducted between October 1 2018 and January 31, 2019 generated 51 responses from Frontenac County businesses, 2 from Loyalist Township (included in the Frontenac County tabulations) and 54 responses from Leeds and Grenville.

Date: March 2019

Pages: 23

There’s no question, we live in an exciting, fast-paced time. But, very often, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of information we are bombarded with daily. In the workplace, we’re fed analytics – sales figures, client data, monthly targets, growth projections, etc. etc. And, let’s not forget all the information we’re consuming as part of our social interconnectedness.

Between our social feeds, data feeds and feeding the kids, we can be torn between Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)!

It is within this environment of information overload, that the 1000 Islands Region Workforce Development Board decided to re-introduce their 2013 newsletter. Why? Why become just another source of information? The answer is simple. We believe that by gathering together information from a variety of sources, we are offering educators, employment counsellors, economic developers, labour and the business community with a single source of locally important information that is substantiated, analyzed and summarized into one easily accessible source delivered directly to your inbox.

Date: March 2018

Pages: 29

The Eastern Workforce Innovation Board formerly, 1000 Islands Region Workforce Development Board, has conducted the EmployerOne Survey since 2015 collecting a total of 430 responses since its launch. The current survey, conducted from October 24, 2017 to January 31, 2018, generated 55 responses from 16 different sectors of the Frontenac economy and 44 responses from 17 economic sectors in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. The goal of the EmployerOne survey of employers is to better understand local labour market supply and demand and to provide another source of information for evidence-based actions supporting workforce development.

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