Publications Promotions
To purchase any of the promotions listed below please contact our publications team at 1-866-242-0075 or publications@conferenceboard.ca. Please note that some promotions can be purchased through our e-library at an additional discount. Please see each listing for more information.
Available Promotions
Risk Watch: January 2012
The Conference Board has just released the January 2012 edition of Risk Watch, a tri-annual journal devoted to the discussion of risk management and corporate governance. This journal features original articles from leading global thinkers and practitioners. Risk Watch: Thought Leadership in Risk and Governance – January 2012
22-pages, $175 e-copy
In this issue, seven leading thinkers and practitioners provide their views on some of the risk challenges and issues facing boards of directors and management today including: - Rob Quail offers five key statements that could become an enterprise risk management mantra for decision-makers, and demonstrates how actively apply these statements.
- Jody Hamade and Theresa Dekker explain how Ontario power Generation is working holistically to minimize the occurrence of unexpected events and to become prepared should they occur.
- Scott Kashuba shares details of the Government of Alberta’s five-year working partnership with the Government of Ghana. Ho focuses on four identified missions and the enterprise risk management expertise and lessons learned.
- Betty J. Simkins, Ilene H. Lang, and Heather Foust-Cummings, identify the benefits of improved risk governance that boards gain by increasing their gender diversity.
Special offer: Order online and get a free report!
Order your copy of this report online for $175 and get a complimentary copy of The Role of the Board in Fraud Risk Management (value of $175). This 11-page briefing discusses the role of the board in requiring, overseeing, supporting, and evaluating their organization’s fraud risk management program.
Syndicating High-Value Enterprise Content Across the Web
With customers increasingly leading the public discussion of products, brands and marketing through their use of social media and other online platforms, executives in brand management, marketing, corporate communications and digital strategies can use the new digital tools to achieve business goals such as improving competitive position, increasing market penetration, and managing your brand. Syndicating High-Value Enterprise Content Across the Web
Recorded Webinar, $350
Join the editors of two innovative online publishing sites – The New Yorker and Turner – to learn how they have been reinventing publishing, and how you can apply their thinking to managing and publishing your corporate content. This recorded webinar discusses: - The convergence of media platforms in the digital space.
- Implementing a strategy of “Create Once, Distribute Everywhere”.
- Adapting content to multiple platform distribution.
- Making the public “discussion” productive through social and digital media participation.
- Meaningful metrics in the digital space.
Order online and save $50. Order this recorded webinar directly on our website for $300.
Work and Life: The Balancing Act
Balance between leisure time and work time is extremely important. However, with ever-increasing responsibilities and stressors, work-life balance is becoming harder to maintain, and the resultant imbalance is proving detrimental to employees and employers alike. The Conference Board of Canada can help your organization support a better work-life balance for employees. Work and Life: The Balancing Act
42-pages, November 2011, e-copy $235
Based on a survey of 384 employers and an extensive literature review, this report provides benchmarking information to help you understand the state of work-life balance initiatives in Canadian organizations. It presents information on: - The societal influences of work-life balance (work and role overload, stress)
- The effects of work-life imbalance (advances in technology, the aging population, changing family structure, economic instability)
- Consequences to employers (presenteeism, absenteeism, productivity, HR challenges)
This report concludes with case studies of innovative work-life balance programs and practices from three leading Canadian organizations, Bayer Inc., Ritch Durnford Lawyers, and Seven Oaks General Hospital. Drive work-life balance at your organization with this great offer:
Order Work and Life online for $235 and receive a complimentary copy of Work-Life Return on Investment (value of $350), a 60-minute recorded webinar that explores how organizations are aligning work-life balance practices with their broader HR strategies and integrating them into their business objectives.
2011 Canadian Directors' Compensation and Board Practices
As organizations respond to new regulatory requirements and fresh demands for good governance and greater board independence, you need to focus on changes in governance practices and have access to benchmarking data on director remuneration in such a restricted talent environment. The Conference Board of Canada can help with the 2011 Canadian Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices report. This report discusses best practices for boards of directors in publicly traded organizations. 2011 Canadian Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices
November 2011, $1,150 e-copy, 48-pages
The 19th edition of this publication summarizes the results of The Conference Board of Canada’s biennial survey on the fees, retainers, and other compensation received by directors for board and committee service as well as governance practices. This report updates our 2009 report on governance and directorship practices. It provides benchmark data on compensation practices and summarizes key factors in the board operations of publicly traded companies in Canada. Topics covered in this publication include: - Composition of the board.
- Board practices (size, meetings, director terms, tenure and turnover, service on multiple boards).
- Compensation for regular board service.
- Use of equity – as compensation and ownership programs.
- Committee service.
- Additional compensation for board leadership (chairpersons and lead directors).
- Cost of running a board of directors.
- Governance practices (top issues for the board, the role of the board, changes to practices, board satisfactions, CEO succession planning).
In addition, the 2011 version also explores board diversity, education, stock ownership, and board evaluation. Order online and Receive a Complimentary Webinar
Order your copy of the 2011 Canadian Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices report online for $1,150 and receive a complimentary copy of the recorded webinar Trends in Executive Compensation (value of $345). This 60-minute recorded session discusses strategies compensation analysis, U.S./U.K. executive compensation rules and their impact on organizations in Canada, risk assessment in pay for performance, and corporate governance – say on pay voting results. Alternatively, you can order 2011 Canadian Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices for $1,150 by calling 1-866-242-0075 or email publications@conferenceboard.ca. Please quote campaign code COMPBOD when placing your order. Order before January 31, 2012 and receive a free copy of The Role of the Board in Fraud Risk Management (value of $175). This 11-page briefing discusses the role of the board in requiring, overseeing, supporting, and evaluating their organization’s fraud risk management program.
Workplace Diversity and Inclusion
As the economy improves, diversity and inclusiveness can help you attract scarce talent. How do you ensure all your people work together with understanding and respect so they can collaborate effectively? How can you turn your employees’ exceptional diversity into exception business results? The Conference Board of Canada has a package of products that can help your organization drive business performance and innovation with diversity initiatives. Purchase the following package for only $775 (a value of $2,640). Workplace Diversity and Inclusiveness Forum: Translating Diversity into Business Advantage
Conference e-Proceedings, January 2011, $775
In this Conference e-Proceedings experts from across Canada will help you understand how to fully capitalize on diversity, improve your existing initiative, and ensure diversity drives growth and innovation within your organization. You’ll hear case studies from leading organizations such as Xerox, St. Michael’s Hospital, and RBC ion topics including immigration, innovation, and success in Canada. You will also hear expert discussion on topics such as building success with a “generationally diverse” workforce, faith at work and how to tackle tough diversity issues, literacy and productivity, capitalizing on supply chain diversity, and the advancement of women in the workplace. Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners
Research Report, May 2008, $540
The role of diversity and inclusion in business is changing due to rapid technological advancements, globalization, immigration, increased demand for skills and education, and an ageing workforce. Drawing from the experience of the senior executives of The Conference Board’s Council on Workforce Diversity, this report sets out a new and unique competency model for 21st century D&I practitioners. Designing and Delivering Engaging Competency-Based Inclusion Training
Recorded Webcast, June 2009, $350
This webcast discusses how companies can best work toward a common mission through analyzing the learning outcomes, methodologies, and curriculum elements of their Diversity and inclusion programs. Report on Diversity: Priorities, Practices and Performance in Canadian Organizations
Research Report, December 2006, $975
This report presents benchmark data on diversity-related priorities, policies, practices and achievements in Canadian organizations. Please quote campaign code DIVERSITYWEB when ordering to ensure you receive the full package for only $775.
Sweat the Small Stuff to Improve Your Business Forecasts
While waiting for the clouds to part over the worldwide economies, small and midsize businesses can do much to bring greater rigor to their short-term forecasts and eliminate costly errors. The Conference Board has just released a briefing that can help your organization: Sweat the Small Stuff to Improve Your Business Forecasts
7-pages, e-copy
This briefing examines how three midsize companies (Carlson Systems Holdings, The North Highland Company, Acme United Corporation) are focusing more and more on the short-term and on the indicators that matter most to their business, as they wait for the long-term clouds hanging over the economy to clear. It also details how these companies are learning to analyze and correct weaknesses in their forecasting procedures and act more swiftly to remove inaccuracies. Order your copy of this briefing for $149 (value of $175).
Order online and save an additional $50. Order directly on our website for $99.
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