Montana Consulting Group

Montana is offering a new two-day course through its partnership with the Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium.

Entitled Collective Agreements and You, this interactive program is an introduction to the logic of managing under a collective agreement, a topic Montana has addressed in its custom-to-client program Principle Based Labour Relations.

Of interest to managers and HR professionals alike, this content-rich course will be offered in eight Ontario locations: Arnprior, Cornwall, Brampton, Kitchener, Mississauga, Belleville, Chatham, and London, as well as Moncton, NB, and Halifax, NS.

George Raine, organizational effectiveness consultant and president of Montana Consulting Group, will present to a meeting of the Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium in Truro, NS on the topic of employee engagement.

George has asked thousands of employees and managers across Canada and in the US to talk about their high and low engagement experiences – in work teams, community organizations, sports clubs, and other groups.

What emerges from these discussions is a clear pattern: seven elements that are critical to a high engagement organization, and if any one of these elements is missing, engagement dies off.

George will show us how the seven elements are a road map, generating concrete action to bring about change – a process he refers to as Single Team Leadership.

This presentation will outline the difficult but achievable journey to turn any workplace into a high morale, high engagement organization. His advice is concrete, practical, and refreshing. He focuses on business success and avoids the clichés of the “HR biz.”

George Raine and Maxime Labbé are guest speakers at Lorman Education Services’ seminar on the Employment Standards Act.

George will present an overview of the Act, and discuss how the Act affects employee terminations.
Max will detail leaves under the Act.

George and Max will join a panel later in the day to discuss how the Act affects a number of business issues. http://www.lorman.com

Even good employees occasionally fall into bad habits -- things like lateness, overstaying breaks, not doing paperwork, or dressing inappropriately. They are the hardest problems to deal with, but the most important problems to fix.

They are hard to deal with because supervisors are reluctant to deal with minor problems in good people. They fear losing more than they gain.
They are important to fix because ignoring them leads to complaints of favoritism and the general feeling that “if management doesn’t care, why should I?”

The Turnaround Interview offers a proven solution.
It is a structured approach to getting an employee to commit to change and to really stop a bad habit. It teaches managers to recognize and overcome the four predictable types of defensive “games” that employees play.

In his light-hearted and practical workshop, Geordie Raine will teach the essentials of the Turnaround Interview.
You will also learn how TI can change the culture of the entire organization, making discipline less common and more effective.