Talent Development and Facilitation
Lycett 4Change & Associates offers customized training to the meet the needs of specific environments and participants.
The training is applicable to private, public, not for profit, healthcare and educational sectors in union and nonunion environments.
Some workshops have pre-requisites, i.e., completion of questionnaire prior to and following the workshop.
Transferable learning increases when employees are having fun and various learning styles are taken into consideration!
Training formats include:
- PowerPoint LCD presentations
- music clips
- videos
- participant exercises
- role playing
Our extensive experience is also available to facilitate training programs offered through your organization.
Current Talent Development Topics
All training is customized to meet your organizational needs. Please contact us for a free proposal and quote.
Creating An Inclusive Workplace: Minding Your P's and Q's
Identification of harassment and bullying behaviours using case studies and active participation.
Manager's training covers policy implementation monitoring process investigation procedures and recommendations.
Employee training raises awareness of policy and expected behaviours. Focus on preventative measures, strategies and examples of positive workplace practices.
Objectives
- Awareness of descriptors of an inclusive workplace
- Acknowledgement of aspects of diversity
- Review and understanding of some forms of harassment
- Understand workplace behaviours: appropriate, inappropriate
- Importance of preventing workplace harassment.
- Review responsibility for building an inclusive environment
- Improve teamwork
- Identify mediation and/or complaint and resolution process
- Identify consequences
Benefits
- Enhance employee morale
- Improve productivity and quality
- Enhance policy and practices
- Increase attraction and retention of employees
- Reduce stress
- Reduce costs associated with absenteeism, STD/LTD
- Protect organization from escalating legal costs
- Enhance public relations
*Pre-requisite: completion of questionnaires prior to and following training.
Culture at Work (CaW)
Overview of Canadian organizational business culture.
Includes workplace environments-union/non-union, organizational structure, employment equity, diversity, communications-workplace terminology, health and safety, security, policies versus practices, accessibility and privacy of information, employer expectations, new employee integration, disability, work and family.
Objectives
- Increase productivity and quality
- Raise awareness of legislation, policies
- Address diverse needs of employees and customers
- Summarize various workplace environments
- Improve new employee orientation
- Meet organizational and employee expectations
Benefits
- Enhance attraction and retention
- Reduce recruitment costs
- Improve teamwork and productivity
- Improve customer service
- Reduce absenteeism and benefit costs
- Increase employee diversity
- Foster commitment to community
- Good public and employee relations
- Improve employee health and safety
Diversity Awareness
Overview on demographics, gender, age, life balance, cultures, class, race, religion, etc.
Historical Canadian picture including new immigrants, generation gap issues, elder care, hours of work, education.
Discussion on work, home, school, life balance issues, new world of work, acclimatization and expectations of work in Canadian society.
Objectives
- Enhance employee relations
- Raise awareness of demographic impact
- Improve stress management
- Raise awareness re: violence
- Improve quality and productivity
- Increase teamwork
- Improve communications
Benefits
- Diversity awareness increases respect for differences
- Reduce hiring and retention costs
- Good customer and employee relations
- Reduce absenteeism
- Decrease benefit costs
Gender Works (GW)
Overview of communication styles, definitions, the social construction of gender, work and family. Reviews the impact demographic changes have on the workplace, including the aging population.
How do the changes in workforce participation impact gender roles? Includes perspectives of race, class, religion, age, sexual orientation, culture, and disability.
Objectives
- Increase teamwork and productivity
- Improve communications
- Enhance career development
- Improve employee attraction and retention
- Understand diversity of employee/customer needs
- Raise awareness re: legal requirements
Benefits
- Improve communications
- Improve employee awareness
- Enhance teamwork and productivity
- Improve attraction and retention of employees
- Enhance customer service
- Enhance quality/design of products and services
- Reduce absenteeism, STD/LTD costs
- Increase employee diversity
- Enhance policy development
Stressamania
This is a hands-on workshop on how to maneuver through the stresses in our lives.
Reviews: the cost of stress to the organization and to the individual, cause-affect, tools, including humour, and an exercise for self-management.
Comfortable clothing is recommended.
"Canada needs, however, to make sure that these investments will make measurable contributions to increasing competitiveness and, more importantly, create solutions for the management of mental health issues, such as stress and depression, in the workplace."
Productivity Through Health: A FGIworld CEO Study on Health and Productivity in Canadian Industry.
Objectives
- Raise awareness re: stresses
- Results of stresses, i.e., increase in violence
- Identify proactive measures to reduce stress
- Identify and practice alternative stress management methods
- To have fun
Benefits
- Improve employee awareness and morale
- Improve attraction and retention of employees
- Enhance customer service
- Improve communications
- Enhance quality/design of products and services
- Reduce health and safety risks
- Reduce absenteeism, STD/LTD costs
- Increase teamwork and productivity
Work With Abilities (WWA)
Awareness training regarding the benefits of increasing people with disabilities in the workplace.
Information on working dogs, their role in the workplace and etiquette.
Includes invisible disabilities, legislation, policy, practices, universal guidelines, demographics, disclosure, myths, work experience, mentorship, job development and job coaching services.
Objectives
- Increase employee awareness
- Educate employees
- Increase teamwork, quality and productivity
- Improve service to customers
- Provide information on working dogs
- Reduce stress
- Improve hiring and career development
Benefits
- Impact on quality/design of products and services enhances bottom line
- Reduce absenteeism, STD/LTD costs
- Enhance employee diversity
- Improve employee awareness, teamwork and productivity
- Improve attraction and retention of employees
- Enhance customer service
- Information on working dogs valuable for hospitality/retail and service providers
