b'PROGRESSIVE ABORIGINAL RELATIONScome and be part of your cultural event so we can learn and support? How can we PAR FACILITATORS help? For me personally, its one of the best things I have ever done in my career.As organizations enter into the Committed level process or are looking toIn Hickeys view, PAR succeeds because apply for the Certified level, some organizations can source the use of PARthe process has been built in phases, facilitators to provide PAR training and PAR facilitation to either level of thewhich allows for the best results. This PAR program. staged process is needed to build, to get that commitment, to develop poli-CCABs PAR program has provided a roster of PAR facilitators that cancies, to reflect and, more importantly, to provide PAR training and facilitation to support the required frameworkunderstand what reconciliation means building process or lead the organization to certification. in each organization. Since Pennecon is a process-driven company, mapping Trainers offer various types of guidance and support from strategy buildingthe PAR process and visualizing how the to internal assessments needed to apply for certification. company gets to where it needs to be was relatively easy. One of the most important pieces is seeking input, guidance and feedback from the communities and our Indigenous employees, says Hickey. We sometimes, as successful individuals and companies, The companies thatoverrate how we are doing. [PAR] drives home the message that its not an occa-have succeeded withsional grand gesture but regular, mean-ingful and sometimes small-scale actions PAR are the ones whothat get us there.are ready to stay with Kate Siklosi is the director of partnerships the program over theat Raise, a family-owned global recruiting firm based in the Greater Toronto Area. long term. TheyreShe has worked with the PAR program not into quick fixes;since the company began to explore it in 2017. Connecting people with mean-theyre looking foringful work is our mission. As part of that mission, we really want to break down long-term change. barriers for people, and as a non-Indig-enous company in Canada, we realize we Kate Siklosihave a responsibility not only to honour Raise the treaties of the land but to build respectful and meaningful partnerships with Indigenous people, says Siklosi.PARTNER WITH US TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITIES AND INDUSTRIES FROM COAST TO COAST TO COAST Robert Thompson, Senior Vice President robertt@mediaedge.ca 647-494-4229 P u b l i s h i n g44A CCAB PUBLICATIONSpring 2024'