M13 You Mean I Have to Manage People Too!

Rick Weinholdt
Consultant, GANDRA Consulting

As you climb up the records management ladder you will come to a point where you are no longer being supervised or managed and become the supervisor or manager. We are often ill-prepared to take on the challenges of managing people.

Drawing on his 35 years of management experience, Rick will share what he has learned the hard way about motivating and leading staff in today’s work environment.

M23 RIM – A Career for Your Future

Margaret Russell, CRM
Information Specialist, Imperial Oil

This session will look at RIM as a profession and explore the skills and knowledge you must achieve to climb the RIM career ladder. By promoting RIM itself, you can increase visibility within the organization so knowing how to handle the spotlight is key to career advancement.

In this session, the facilitator and participants will dialogue on the value of continuing education as a cornerstone for self-development.

T13 RIM or IM? Where Does it Fit? (world café)

Christine Ardern , CRM , FAI
Principal Consultant, The Information Management Specialists / Entium Technology Partners

Denise Bruno
Records and Information Audit / Compliance Officer, Regional Municipality of York

Paul Fisher , CDIA+, CRM
Managing Consultant, IBM Canada

Janice Francisco
Change Facilitator, BridgePoint Effect

Many RIM mangers must find their program’s place and prove its value at the executive table. Is this the result of a marketing and communications breakdown or a misguided decision about what it is called (RIM versus IM) and where it fits on the organization chart?

Join the presenters in this lively, interactive and provocative “world café”. www.theworldcafe.com/what.htm

T23 RIM or IM? Where Does it Fit? (world café)

T33 Managing the People Side of a RIM Project

Sharon Osmond
Change Manager – Professional Services, CriticalControl Solutions Inc.

Change affects people – our greatest asset!

This session will present several techniques and tips to successfully change everyday behaviours in order to be successful with your RIM projects. Come join Sharon as she identifies methods to develop a change management strategy, obtain buy-in, manage resistance, enhance rate of user adoption, and gain trust.

T43 RIM and IT: Achieving True Collaboration

David Hopkins , CRM
Records and Information Manager, Alberta Ministry of Finance and Enterprise

Glen Sustrik
Director – Corporate Technology Services, Alberta Ministry of Finance and Enterprise

Historically, IT and RIM professionals worked separately as per separate business units, reporting structures and project objectives. Today, however, the realities of electronic records management make it imperative for RIM professionals to establish a positive, effective and ongoing relationship with IT staff.

This presentation will focus on how to bring together IT and RIM so the two business units (and the professionals within them) may work together to share expertise, meet common goals, and achieve greater success for information management initiatives within the organization.

W13 Coaching Up the Organization (workshop)

Judy Harrower
Dean of Community Services, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology

Do you ever wonder how people get to the top of their organizations? Many employ a personal coach – someone who helps them analyze their “product” (i.e. what they have to offer the organization) and then how to market their “product”.

This workshop will look at one aspect of identifying your “product” and how to market it, as well as whether a personal coach holds value for you personally.

You will identify one personal “product” you have to offer your organization, practice one marketing tool for your “product”, and write one achievable goal based on achieving upward mobility.

W23 Coaching Up the Organization (workshop)