Mentoring Women in the Trades Through Awareness and Understanding
This interactive training opportunity is designed for Journeypersons and Supervisors of tradeswomen and will identify the tools needed to be a good mentor to women in the trades. The Office to Advance Women Apprentices NL is offering this training as a tool to support SMEs (small and medium employers) to gain skills and knowledge needed to better understand the role of a mentor and learn strategies for speaking up and having difficult conversations.
This workshop will give participants a better understanding of what DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging) is and how it plays a role in an inclusive work environment. The main objective of this workshop is to help Journeypersons and Supervisors create a positive and healthy mentor/mentee relationship with Women in Trades.
Topics to be covered include:
- Unconscious Bias: Biases influence our impressions of individuals and groups and therefore our decision-making process. This module will help the participants recognize that unconscious bias exist in everyone.
- Women in Trades: In Atlantic Canada, women make up less than 5.4% of the construction industry. This module will touch on women’s experiences on the job today and the contribution that women made in the trades over the years.
- Bullying and Harassment: The participants will learn to understand microaggressions and how to recognize them as well as to recognize bullying and harassment through discussions and videos.
- Safe and Healthy Workplace: This module will look at the labour shortage across Canada and that the fastest growing, significant skilled labour force are found in marginalized groups.
- Bringing Forward Change: Participants will understand how they as mentors, employers and apprentices working with women can make a difference to workplace culture.
- Mentorship: Being an Ally: Explore and confirm the personal characteristics and traits that a Journeyperson brings to a mentoring role through their own life and work experience.
- Mentoring with Intention: When we create a culture that makes the time to get to know a person and recognize their value then employees feel recognized and included and bring their best to their job.
Training will be offered in-person throughout the province of Newfoundland and Labrador as well as virtually to accommodate as many participants as possible.