The Yorkton Chamber of Commerce welcomed people back with their first in-person event at the Painted Hand Casino.
The first event back featured Jolene Watson. Watson is the President of Clarity Coaching and Development. She is also an Executive Business Coach. Her topic for the afternoon was 'Post Pandemic – Have you Changed? Have your Employees Changed?"
Juanita Polegi, the executive director for the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, said that they chose to have Watson come visit Yorkton after she did a webinar for the Sask. Chamber of Commerce earlier this year.
"She talked about how Myers-Briggs has shown that under prolonged stress, people's personalities change. We've been under stress for 16 months, so it seemed very fitting for the business people to know," she said. "Some of them will be bringing back employees or have employees that think their managers have changed, and some of those managers may have thought that the employees have changed. It's a good way to understand what's happened and to go forward as the businesses rebuild and grow."
Watson explained why it's so important for people to know their co-worker's personality types.
"It's so important to know the personality types of those work with to identify their strengths and help them further their career to increase productivity, increase joy in the workplace," she said. "What happens under stress are we actually flip our personality type, so the areas that we have avoided will actually come to the surface, and it's important to know your triggers and what your response might be so that you can temper and practise new behaviours to mitigate stress in the future."
Overall, Polegi said that it was exciting to have people back in person and that the turnout showed just that.
"I feel really grateful that we had such a good turnout of business people, and think it the way of things to come," she said. "There will be more events, and more people will be coming out; I felt Joelene's presentation was highly informative and full of energy and highly entertaining."
