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Beth Green: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

Well you probably get this a lot. There is no typical workday. I have a lot of meetings, a lot of conversations with donors, with workplaces involved in our campaign, and with community agencies involved in the community development work that we do. I also have some conversations with media, meetings with my team and others and lots of writing.

Dave Arenburg: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself? Can you describe your role in the company?

My workday has changed over the years. When we first set up the first franchise with 20 employees to what it is today of 5 franchises and at one point we also owned a Wendy's franchise, which includes, now, somewhere between 150 to 180 employees. So my typical workday now is involved more in co-ordinating and directing and following up with our management team to make sure that they are responding to the preformance goals we've set, but also to be there in the particular troublesome items items that may crop up from any day-to-day, and it could be breaking equipment, HR issues, some challenging items with customers, because that's something I take pride in trying to get involved with. So i'm a troubleshooter but also a visionary for the company.

Gina Haverstock: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

Harvest time is the busiest time for me, that's when the grapes are coming in and that's when all the big decisions have to be made about what's going to be happening with the processing of the grapes, how the wine is going to be made, at what temperatures, things like that. So, an average day would start 7:30-8:00 in the morning then decisions are made whether grapes are going to come in so we could be doing checks on bricks so the sugar level of grapes, the TA the PH, TA is total acidity, PH of course... and once we decide when the grapes are going to come in for instance, they start coming in, into the back pad and then we just start processing them so works through the crusher to de-stemmer, presses, and then basically getting the juice, doing analysis on the juice, deciding on any kind of procedures, and then basically that goes on throughout the day and it can anywhere from 7:30-8 in the morning right through until sometimes 12:00. Those are the busy times but the average day is probably, during harvest, would end around 9:00 pm. In the summertime, it's a little bit different, of course tourist season starts to ramp up and because at Gaspereau Vineyards we're so small I don't just stay in the wine cellar and that's all I do, I actually do a little bit of everything. So, there are a lot of interests in restaurants, for instance, wanting to do wine dinners so I would do a wine dinner some evenings, I just participated in a few recently. Working in the store, at the tasting bar doing tours and tasting, things like that, and earlier in the spring there is also lots of work to be done in the vineyard so it's a continuous process and it changes from season to season

Grant Ferguson: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

I am generally in the plant a little before 7:00 AM. Shift change in the plant is at 7:00 AM, so it is good to see the outgoing shift as they head out. The morning is spent generally in operations meetings, seeing how our performance was the previous day, seeing where our quality is in particular and our production levels. I like to spend a lot of time on the shop floor and minimize the time in meetings. We have 29 acres under the roof and I like to be able to get through all those 29 acres in a walk through and see the employees and see what the issues of the day are. By late in the afternoon, hopefully it will be time to go home. At 4:30 or 5:00 we can wrap it up and head out.

Heather Hill: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

A typical workday at our business, I would be in the office in the morning to do the books and see where the finances are at, see what the staff are doing, make sure everybody knows what they are supposed to be doing for the day, and see if there are any problems. Sometimes there is a physical problem with one of our apartments. Sometimes there is a financial situation. Sometimes there is a reservation, so we make sure our clients are happy. I like to also be out on the property just to make sure that things look good. It is really important in a small business, at least in our small business, that things just look well kept for. People want to know that they are at a place where people care.

Ian Cavanagh: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

My typical work day, I usually rise at about 7, make my way to work, I am in the office by 8-8:30. Generally there is certain amount of the day that is scripted, there is a lot of the day that is unscripted and interrupted. It is a byproduct of the nature of our business and a lot of our activities being driven by client needs as well as electronic media so like an email interrupting us during the day. The day does not end typically at 5, this is not a 9-5 business, quite often we roll on to 6 or 7 at night. Get home, undertake to do some family commitments and then I usually find myself back in front of my computer around 9:00, maybe for an hour or two each evening, then eventually make it back to bed.

Janet Annesley: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

Well one of the things I love about working in communications in oil and gas is there is no typical workday. There is – our industry is very technical, it is very large in terms of having some of the world’s largest companies. So we can be very bureaucratic and process-driven at times but certainly in an externally facing job, there is no typical day because anything can happen. Whether it is something that has happened in government, or in the news media, or the environmental community, or with one of our member companies. There is always something new and different and to some degree we are responding to those issues but to a large degree we are working very hard to stay ahead of the curve and to understand what the public is thinking, what policy makers are thinking, and how that affects our industry and advising our members. So I wish I could say there was a typical day but there is not. Anyone who wants to get into this profession needs to be able to think pretty fast on their feet.

Paula Gallagher: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

Well I�m not sure that there is a typical work day for me, but a normal day would include a couple of elements. There is typically client related work so I, and members of my team, work with or for a client and there�s usually a component related to staff. So, helping staff with personal plans or coaching or dealing with personal issues, and there is typically an element related to helping to build our business, so, developing relationships in the community, doing charitable work with organizations in the community.

Paul Cooper: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

Typically it would start around seven, seven thirty either at the home office or the Dell office. Probably fifty percent of my time is spent physically on the Dell premise working with our sales teams, marketing teams, operations and others and participating in meeting, leading meetings, leading discussions with those folks. The other fifty percent of my time is spent in front of customers with our sales teams learning about their unique requirements and how we can address those requirements most effectively.

Paul Jewer: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

It is hard to call any day typical but certainly I spend a lot of time with my staff providing them with advice and help with the things they are working on working with our regional and national business leads to provide them with support. Obviously in today's technology driven world a lot of that is done by e-mail, by video conference, over the phone as we operate offices across the country and I spend a lot of time traveling to our offices across the country.

Robert Selzler: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

A typical workday for me is around 11-12 hours. I usually get into work by around 8:00am and out by around 7:00pm. Then I usually put in another hour or two at home in the evenings. I try to take the weekends off and work a few hours on Sunday evening getting ready for the upcoming work week. My workdays are filled with many meetings and calls to our global offices. Early morning calls to South Africa or the UK, calls to South America and North America and late afternoon/evening calls to Australia.

Shannon MacDonald: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

I don't have a typical workday. I have very exciting workdays and I think because they're not typical that's why I enjoy them so much. I see a lot of people, I have a ton of interaction inside the firm, outside the firm, with people in the city, outside the city. What's typical about it is there is a lot of interaction, a lot of great discussion, constantly challenged and really would say high energy and a lot of fun.

Tracey Ball: Can you describe a typical workday for yourself?

I am a late riser so generally I do not come in until 9:00 A.M. in the morning. So that is probably different than what people are used. It actually works quite well because I complement myself with people who are a lot smarter than I am and they come in and do tons of work for me. Then I come in and review it and start it all over the next day.