"Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded." - Stephanie Barron, 1996

Assisting Organizations to Achieve Their Greatest Human Resource Potential and Highest Business Performance

The Workplace Institute is a national leader in understanding the people issues of today's workplace.  Through its work with many of Canada's foremost organizations, it has developed a unique perspective on the needs of employees and the requirements of employers. 

The Workplace Institute is a centre of excellence for organizations that want to deal with worker and workforce concerns through the application of customized learning and consulting solutions.  The Institute is renowned for creating innovative, practical alternatives and strategies for clients.  It has examined labour force issues for years with the aim of assisting executives with managing their changing human resource and business challenges in an integrated fashion.   

Services and Products

• Strategic HR Planning
  • Organization and HR Strategic Alignment
  • Identifying HR Priorities
  • HR Strategy Implementation
• Talent Management
  • Attraction and Recruitment
  • Selection and Hiring
  • On boarding and Orientation
  • Retention
  • Motivation
  • Performance Appraisal
• Diversity Review
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Intellectually and Physically Challenged
  • New Canadians
  • Visible Minorities
  • First Nations
• Multi-generational Perspectives
  • Identifying Generational Needs
  • Intergenerational Conflict Resolution
  • Capitalizing on Generational Diversity
  • Work life Issues
  • Management and Supervisory Education
• Workforce Analytics and Diagnostics
  • Labour Market Surveys
  • Workforce Analytics And Diagnostics
  • Workforce Planning
• Organizational Wellness
  • Healthy Workplaces
  • Preventative Health Strategies
• Leadership Development
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Succession Planning
  • Leader and Talent Development
• Employee engagement
  • HR Functional Excellence
  • Engagement Drivers
  • Performance Linkages
• Change Management
  • Organizational Culture Change
  • Organizational Climate Perspectives
  • HR Strategic Transition
  • Organizational Transformation
  • Demographic Shifts
• Total Rewards
  • EAP
  • Benefits
  • Pensions
• HR Systems
  • New Electronic Media Use
  • New HR Delivery Systems

Optimizing High-Experience Employees^©

By 2025, more than 20 percent of the Canadian population will be over the of age 65, double the proportion of 1980.  There are currently five working-age Canadians for every person over 65.  Very soon, that ratio will shift to 3:1.

Although current economic conditions have masked the potential consequences, the aging tsunami continues to build.  Using an exclusive consulting approach, the Workforce Institute works with clients to identify potential workforce risks and provide solutions to optimize the employment of key high-experience employees.  The Optimizing High-Experience Employees^© program assists employers to mitigate workforce shortages and retain irreplaceable corporate knowledge. 

For further information, contact Barbara Jaworski at:
877-610-0109, ext 210
Bjaworski@workplaceinstitute.org

Retirement Intentions Survey^©

The Retirement Intentions Survey^© is a proprietary survey tool developed by the Workplace Institute to assist employers with their workforce planning needs.  Employees in an organization complete a ten-minute, online survey.  By analyzing the responses, executives and managers learn how many in their experienced workforce are planning to retire at what ages and how many plan to stay – permitting long-range forecasting for hiring, training and employing future employees.

For further information, contact Barbara Jaworski at:
877-610-0109, ext 210
Bjaworski@workplaceinstitute.org