Performance Pointers for Companies

Federally funded performance training for small businesses

• Are you looking for customized, in-house, performance improvement training and development for your employees – but have no budget?
• Would your company benefit from a tailored employee training program, aligned to the priorities of your business?
• Would you be interested in government-funded employee learning and development, to be delivered by a qualified training provider?
• Does your business have less than 50 employees, and have you been in business for at least one year?

If you have answered yes to any one of these questions, we would like to talk with you about a no-cost-to-you employee training initiative, funded by the federal government, to help small business owners grow their company. Call us for an appointment at 604-317-2234.

The “Workplace Training for Innovation Program” is a new initiative administered by the BC Government, and funded by the Federal Government, to help small business employers improve their business performance through customized training for their employees.
The program provides employers with up to $5,000.00 in employee learning funds. The application must be submitted in partnership with a qualified training provider. We do all the legwork; your business and your employees benefit. Win-Win.

Change management is a well-used term, bandied about whenever a new system is about to be introduced. Well-used, but poorly understood. “You need to sharpen your change management skills” managers are told, and sometimes even “We’re bringing in a change management expert.” And “We need a change management plan”.

It is encouraging that the topic of managing change comes up in these discussions at all. What kind of change? Well, for instance - introducing any kind of enterprise-wide technology solution, such as large-scale ERP software, or new and sophisticated Financial Management Systems. The unfortunate reality is that when senior (IT) management, or the system’s vendor, for that matter, talks about “Change Management”, they actually mean “Change Scheduling”. While Change Scheduling is important, it covers only the “what and when” and seldom the “how”. Allow me to explain.

Career Pointers for People

That's right: 6 out of every 10 jobs were never advertised ... so how do people find them?

By now, most people know that “networking” is the way to get a mid-level to senior job these days. In fact, almost 60% of respondents to a large scale survey quoted “through contacts” as the way they’d landed their job—through business contacts, through family members, tipped by a friend or schoolmate, or recruited by someone who already worked there—in short, through a process of referrals.