Past Webinars & Events
April 30, 2024, 10:30 am – 11:30 am PT / 1:30 p.m. – 2:30p.m. ET
How are you welcoming young employees into your organization?
PLT Canada hosted a Fostering Success for Green Jobs Youth in a Welcoming Workplace webinar on April 30, 2024 from 10:30–11:30 am PT / 1:30–2:30 pm ET to share how you can better onboard and support young adults.
As we welcome young adults from diverse communities in the forest and conservation sector, it’s important that we create a welcoming environment and ensure they feel supported. This hour-long virtual training will support green jobs supervisors in creating a welcoming work environment through some best management practices.
Learning outcomes
- Recognize the needs of new and diverse employees starting work in an organization.
- Respond to employee needs by engaging in best practices of onboarding prior to and within the first days on the job.
- Identify measures to make workplaces welcoming and safe for new employees.
- Develop actions to foster employee belonging and engagement.
Trainers
Meg Hanna, Director, Urban and Community Forestry for Canada, Sustainable Forestry Initiative
This session will be delivered by Meg Hanna, Director of Urban and Community Forestry for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. She joined the green jobs workforce, in 2005, as a horticulture summer student maintaining municipal parks. Since 2009, she has fulfilled diverse roles supporting green spaces and the people who care for them. She has worked for 12 years in urban forestry, including 8 years as a horticulture and arboriculture supervisor for the City of Montreal. She has helped lead health and safety committees as well as recruitment campaigns for skilled trades personnel. She also contributes as a sessional lecturer to the University of British Columbia’s Master of Urban Forestry Leadership Program.
Christine Leduc, Vice President, Communications and Government Relations, Sustainable Forestry Initiative
Christine oversees strategic communications while also developing and implementing a range of government and public relations activities.
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