Just released: NEW 2009 Lunch and Learn Titles

As you know, Lunch and Learn Shortshops are an exciting way to keep training on the table in your organization. Advance Corporate Training Ltd. is pleased to release this series of new titles for 2009. These 6 titles are designed to be an effective year long program you can offer bi-monthly at your organization. Each session is also available as a stand alone Lunch and Learn short course. Want additional topics to choose from? Contact us at train@actraining.com for a full list on lunch and learn course titles.

The 5 Languages of Apology
Different people require different types of apology to feel that they have been apologized to. Knowing the concept of the 5 languages of apology frees you from expecting the apology language you need, and helps you to understand the type of apology to give. Of course, nothing beats the ring of true sincerity!
"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything."

Getting through the Dip
Are you in the dip, a cul de sac or at the edge of a cliff? The Dip is the difference between mediocrity and mastery - and chances are, for anything worth doing, there will probably be a Dip. Finding how to focus and stay on course, will help you turn average into exceptional.

Followership – it’s ok not to want to lead
Your company's success isn't predicated solely on your dazzling leadership skills or even on great leadership plus shrewd hiring. Rather, success is a function of the actions and attitudes of followers. There are five types of followers: isolates, bystanders, participants, activists, and die-hards. Where are you and how do you claim your place and learn your potential influence?

Zenobia: A Tale of Triumph over Yes-People, Cynics, Hedgers and Other Corporate Killjoys. (based on a book of the same name)
What leads an organization to greatness is often very different from what enables it to continue to grow and develop. Zenobia shows us the essence of what it takes for a company to change. Take part in an engaging and actionable tale of how teamwork, courage and vision are integral drivers of long-term success. Be reminded of how enthusiasm, conviction, and courage can transform even the most stubborn personalities or culture. “Look for what could be, not just what is."

Did You Mean to Say That? Communicating Effectively in the Workplace
Ever wonder why some people say the things they do? Learn about 4 different communication styles and how they shape how we communicate at work. Learn why someone who asks “do I have to?” may not be undermining your authority and why someone who says “of course I can” might actually “not”.

Understanding Ethics
Come learn how what you would do with an unfinished ice cream cone can indicate what you would do in an ethical crisis. We all typically have one of three ethical philosophies – learn what they are, how they are different and how they shape your world view (and how they can sometimes be the root of those unsolvable conflicts).


For more information or to book a lunch and learn for your organization, please call us at 604.521.5473 or email train@actraining.com.

Advance Corporate Training Travels!

In 2008, Advance Corporate Training Ltd. had trainers on the road and away from home base in Vancouver for 39 weeks this last year. We travelled throughout Canada (all 3 coasts!), to the United States and overseas.

Our unique style of facilitated delivery is in demand and sought out by leaders in business, industry and governments around the world. Most importantly, we have helped learners learn and apply new skills and techniques - beyond what they even believed possible.

In 2009, we anticipate travelling to the Middle East, Asia and back to South America as well as to our regular clients throughout North America.

Our global community continues to grow as the world becomes our home - thank you to all who have made our journeys, safe, comfortable and possible!

New Season of JanetSpeak - Dates Released

JanetSpeak Season 2 – 2009

As a follow-on to her Internet Radio Show of the same name, Janet will be bringing you a series of new teleseminar titles from “the Human Zoo: An Exploration of Why We Do the Things We Do.” This season the focus will be on exploring and understanding yourself – next season, she will explore “the others” and how to handle them.

Asserting Yourself – choosing to be heard (2 teleseminars): Learn how to professionally position yourself in your workplace as an effective communicator. How to recognize and choose to exercise passive/assertive/aggressive behavioral patterns. Increase your visibility to the decision-makers in your organization. Develop your personal catalogue of assertiveness techniques for application at work and in your personal life.

Feb 2, 2009 9:30am PST
Feb 23, 2009 9:30am PST

Influence without Authority (1 teleseminar): Improve your skills for negotiating with individuals and groups. How do you gain commitment for your ideas? Work collaboratively to achieve win/win situations. How do you get compliance without the ability to enforce?

Mar 2, 2009 9:30am PST

What are your Learning Styles? (1 teleseminar): How do you learn most easily? What is your preferred learning style? Following the completion of an assessment tool, you will identify and develop an understanding of your style preference. Learn to maximize time learning new things.
Mar 23, 2009 9:30am PST

Becoming More Resilient (4 teleseminars)
Resiliency is the ability to thrive and increase competence in the face of adverse circumstances or obstacles. Human beings have a naturally resilient nature but it must be nurtured or it can be lost. Professionals who are resilient draw upon all resources: biological, psychological and environmental to succeed. Resilient people have a competitive advantage. They adapt and thrive better than others in conditions of challenge and non-stop change.

Participants will identify personal “resiliency builders,” discover how to strengthen their ability to overcome whatever they are facing and understand their unique personal strengths. The four sessions are: Managing Your Sphere of Influence, Developing Your Emotional Intelligence, Learned Optimism, Practicing Resiliency.

April 6, 2009 9:30am PST
April 27, 2009 9:30 PST
May 4, 2009 9:30 PST
May 25, 2009 9:30 PST

All sessions are offered free of charge to the first 10 people to register and are available at $26.50 per session for the remaining. Space is limited. Contact train@actraining.com or 604.521.5473 to register.

Disney Webinars for Advance Corporate Training Clients

We at Advance Corporate Training Ltd. are pleased to announce our new relationship with the Disney Institute based in Orlando, Florida.

The Disney Institute Difference
Learning about the ‘Disney Difference’. . . has inspired leaders to change not only their business practices, but to examine their business issues in an entirely new light. After participating in a Disney Institute experience, they soon find they have more in common with Disney than they could have imagined. All organizations are driving toward the same goal–serving the people who purchase their products and services. Whether they are clients, customers, constituents, or, in Disney-speak, Guests, organizations must satisfy them or risk losing them.”

–From Disney Institute book, “Be Our Guest”

Our key clients and soon-to-be clients will be able to access these world class Disney programs, courses and webinars through their contacts with us. And best of all, we have secured great exclusive discounts and special savings that you can only access by quoting special code "ACT".

For more information, please contact Advance Corporate Training Ltd. President Janet Dean directly at 604-521-5473 or dean@actraining.com.

To get a taste of what you can expect with the full Disney Institute experience, consider signing up for one of several upcoming free webinars. Email Lindsay at events@actraining.com for a list of topics, dates and how to register.

Why Remember?

"We must remember. If we do not, the sacrifice of those one hundred thousand Canadian lives will be meaningless. They died for us, for their homes and families and friends, for a collection of traditions they cherished and a future they believed in; they died for Canada. The meaning of their sacrifice rests with our collective national consciousness; our future is their monument. "

Heather Robertson, A Terrible Beauty, The Art of Canada at War. Toronto, Lorimer, 1977.

For a great article on the who, what, when, where, why and how of Remembrance Day in Canada, please visit http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/other/remember/why

Are you taking your time?

In a world full of rush hour and fast food, finding balance between life and work may seem impossible or challenging. "Take Back Your Time" day is dedicated to the promotion of work life balance for all. Advance Corporate Training Ltd. is committed to ensuring that all workers, white to blue collar have the opportunity to "Take Back Your Time".

You deserve it!

Enthusiastically Supported by: Advance Corporate Training Ltd.

For more information about how you can "Take Back Your Time" please visit:
www.timeday.org or call us at 604.521.5473.

Food for Thought - Food for Learning

Food First Foundation, NWT hosted A Taste of Canadian Living in Yellowknife on Friday Oct. 3rd at Sir John Franklin High School.

Based on a successful event last fall, this gourmet evening was in support of school breakfast, lunch and snack programs in the NWT.

Advance Corporate Training Ltd. President Janet Dean is a long time supporter of community food programs and was pleased tobe able to participate in this year’s event.

Sponsored by Canadian North and BHP Billiton Diamond Inc., the event featured a professional cooking demonstration by Elizabeth Baird, Executive Food Editor of Canadian Living magazine and Pamela Collacott, celebrity chef, cookbook author and CTV cooking show host.

These women provided an entertaining show – attendees enjoyed a sample of each of the three Canadian Living appetizers demonstrated by Elizabeth Baird and Pamela Collacott as well as samples of signature hors d’oeuvres from local restaurants such as Diamante; Thornton’s Wine & Tapas Room; Fuego; Trader’s Trapline; Chef Pierre’s Catering; Coyotes and Our Place. A cash bar, draw prizes and a silent auction round out the evening.

The event is a fundraiser for Food First Foundation, NWT Nutrition Grants in support of school based breakfast, lunch and snack programs in the NWT.

Jelly Bean Challenge

Congratulations to Milagros for participating at the Information Session on September 16th

Congratulations Milagros Palacios!

She has won a copy of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey from the 'Jelly Bean Challenge' at the Vancouver School Board information session on September 16th from Advance Corporate Training Ltd.!

Join us next year for the Vancouver School Board information session on January 13th and 14th from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at 1580 W. Broadway, Vancouver, BC.

Critical Thinking At Work

As the inaugural event of our new INsight Series (Independent Narratives) of short workshops and presentations designed to raise awareness and critical reflection on sensitive, topical and interesting issues – we are pleased to present the following:

Understanding the Significance of Eid (Islamic Celebration)
Renowned Islamic scholar and businessman, Feroz Dean will discuss the significance of Ramadan and Eid in the Muslim calendar and answer questions on Islam in Canada and traditional practices.

When: October 1, 2008
12noon – 1:30pm
Where: ACT Office Boardroom New Westminster, BC
Cost: There is no cost but preregistration is required and space is limited.
Attendees: Everyone is invited to attend. Preference given to ACT staff, contractors, suppliers and clients.

To preregister, please contact events@actraining.com or call 604.521.5473.

Janet Dean on CBC Radio One ~"On the Coast"

Janet Dean on CBC ~ "On the Coast"

ACT on CBC RADIO ONE Tonight!

Advance Corporate Training Ltd. is being featured on CBC Radio One tonight! Host of "On the Coast" Steve Quinn will be interviewing Janet Dean, learning specialist about night school and how to " Deal with Difficult People!" Janet Dean will be featured on 690 AM at 5:50 pm September 9, 2008.

Tune in to 690 AM on YOUR radio dial to hear all of Janet's latest tips!
You may also tune in via the web at: http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/

Here is a little more about the fantastic community show that Janet Dean, President of Advance Corporate Training will be featured!


On The Coast

On The Coast is a great way to catch up on the day's news, and get connected to what's happening in your neighbourhood. Join host Stephen Quinn between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m.every weekday, and you'll be right up to date on all the latest sports, weather, traffic, and entertainment from around the Lower Mainland.

Broadcast Times
CBC Radio One: Weekday Afternoons 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Returning to Learning - Back to School at Work

Today's workplaces are changing at the speed of light - new technologies, new people, changing expectations - all requiring new skills to keep up. Research shows that 1 in 5 adult Canadian workers will be in a workplace learning event within the next 7 days and by the end of September, 1 in 3 will have participated in workplace learning.

If all this learning is taking a toll, here are 3 quick tips to get you ready to go back to "school' at work as you get your kids back to school themselves. The skills you need for returning to learning are the skills you have already developed as an adult juggling multiple responsibilities: managing time, setting priorities, asking questions, and knowing yourself. Your formula for success is almost complete.

Accept that you ARE a good student.

Many workers are intimidated by workplace learning with a very real fear of whether they can measure up academically. Relax - your real life experiences and need for new information will win over that inner child trying to remember the times tables. Good workplace learning focuses on new skills that help at work - not how fast you memorize new information. And as an adult, you are already really good at learning new things to make your life easier.

Know why you are returning to learning.

Go into training knowing what you want to get out of it and you will be surprised how much you do. by having a clear idea of your expectations, you can help make sure the material is relevant to you and ask questions of the trainer that personalize the material to your needs.

You have transferable skills.

You already know just about everything you need to, to be successful. You may have to apply those critical thinking, problem solving and stress management skills to a new computer program or those conflict resolution or communication skills to a challenging colleague but you already have the skills - your learning is going to be about new situations and ways to apply them - easy peasy!

Tell us your favoutite workplace learning stories - good and bad - via email to dean@actraining.com. We'll enter your stories into a draw for 6 "School Bus" Photo Frame Magnet Craft Kit. 8 1/4" x 6"; holds three 1 1/8" x 1 1/4" photos so can show your trip back to school right alongside your kids!

Summer fun at Advance Corporate Training

Advance Corporate Training is on the move!

The summer is a quieter time in the training industry but staff and management at ACT Ltd. still look forward to the season. We use it as a chance to take on more creative, time-consuming projects, build relationships with new clients, develop and test new courses, spend more time on our community good works - as well as time to take the show on the road. This summer has seen us in Yellowknife, Whistler, Vernon, Salmon Arm, Denver and Orlando - from the top of North America right down to the bottom. Stay tuned for stories from our travels later this month - and our schedule for the fall.

I'm sorry just isnt good enough

ACT releases a new course on apologizing at work.

"Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift." Margaret Lee Runbeck

Broken promises, a missed deadline, making a mistake, forgetting something important, being late, rude or unprofessional, offensive behavior, misunderstanding or broken communication – do you recognize yourself or your co-workers? Have your feelings ever been hurt, your trust betrayed, relationships destroyed?

People spend 8-10 or even more hours at work, which leads to plenty of opportunities for difficult situations and complicated problems to arise. And at work, apologizing can be tricky. To help improve communication and decrease conflict at work, we have developed a new short course on the 5 types of apology and how to use them well at work.

The common statement “We are all human, we all make mistakes” or casual and careless phrase “Just live with it (forget about it)” could make the situation or conflict worse and would never help to restore and rebuild trust. We need to do more because when an apology is poorly delivered, it can make a bad situation worse. In some cases hurt people might feel that instead of healing their feelings you are just rubbing salt in their wound. A bad apology is a second insult.... the other person doesn’t want to be compensated because they have been wronged; they want to be healed because they have been hurt.

What insulted or offended people expect and accept is a sincere, honest and thoughtful apology delivered on time. But it’s not easy and that’s where this new course can help.
“Today in business, strong communication skills are essential to personal and organizational success,” says ACT Ltd. President Janet Dean. “Most of have mastered it when times are good. This course will give you the skills to help when times aren’t so easy too.”

Parents teach their children to say please and thank you and even “I’m sorry” very early on. The children are unknowingly learning to say I’m sorry to please their mum or dad and not actually mean the apology. We carry this strategy into our adult lives.

“Learning the correct actions and words to apologize are not enough. It greatly helps your understanding and success if you learn what not to do as well so you can avoid the apologizing mistakes so many of us make over and over again”, says Tony Procure, ACT Manager

“For me, the non-apology apology” is the worst says an anonymous employee. “When my boss says “I am sorry IF I….. I feel the non-apology apology coming and immediately tune out. People like my boss need to learn how to apologize properly – this course would be great for them.”

Mark Schenkle, an Administrative Manager says, “ if only my staff knew how to apologize, we could let go of the issue and move on. Instead, they blame each other, hand me those non-apology apologies and in some cases just give me the “I’m sorry” I am sure they used on their mom and dad.”

This new course is designed to help everyone get better at communicating their apology and regret.

The Advance Corporate Training Ltd. Apology course is available as a 1 hour lunch and learn or a half day workshop. Topics include the 5 languages of apology, identifying and removing barriers to apology, where and when not to apologize as well as sample scripts and letters to help you apologize more effectively.

"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything." Lynn Johnston

For more about the power of apology, the five languages of apology, how to write apology letters and how to forgive, consider bringing the new ACT course “Apology in the work place” into your organization. For more information, call 604.521.5473 or email events@actraining.com.

Free Teleseminars this Fall!

Three classes at absolutley no charge. On us.

If you're tired of talking about what you're going to do one day... One day just arrived! No more excuses – the time to apply your leadership skills is here.Each class is designed to assist you in applying new behaviors to your old situations.

Mondays, November 3-17,2008 9:30 – 10:30 AM (PST)

The Format: 30 minutes of JanetSpeak, 15-30 minutes of Q & A

We have room for only 50 callers,so sign up NOW! Send your name, position, organization name, email and telephone number you will be dialing in from to events@actraining.com

The Agenda

November 3 THE REALITY CHECK:What are the challenges to practicing leadership in the modern workplace and what are the best practices for “work arounds” and “work withs”?

November 10 DESTINATION NEXT:What workplace trends are on the horizon and what current trends are we still figuring out (dealing with multigenerational and diverse workforces, downsizing, globalization)?

November 17 CREATING CHANGE:"Sometimes the greatest risk is NOT to take one". How do I implement change in others where there is resistance or even sabotage?

Learn at Work Week 2008

Advance Corporate Training Ltd. schedules their first 2008 Learn at Work Week event.

As many of us rest and relax during the summer, staff at Advance Corporate Training Ltd. have been busy booking and scheduling client and staff events for the fall. In adddition to booking our many in-house sessions for clients, we are pleased to announce our first internal Learn at Work Week course - on September 25, 2008 from 12:30 - 4:30 pm, Independent Fianncial Planner (and ACT Ltd. Master Facilitator) Neil Sharpham will lead a session for trainers and staff on Financial Planning Basics.

Designed specifically for those VERY pre-retrirement, this session will help participants take control of their financial future. Brought to staff at no charge courtesy of ACT Ltd's staff professional development fund, this session is also open to staff of our suppliers, partners and clients. If you wish to attend, please email Lindsay at events@actraining.com. Space is limited.

Master Facilitator Level 2 Graduates

After a grueling weekend of think, learn, do, Advance Corporate Training Ltd. is pleased to announce the completion of another class of Master Facilitator Level 2 participants.

Neil Sharpham, Justine Mills, Gail Little, Irene vanNieuwkerk, Norman Chang, Shelly Nizar (missing: Alanna Burke)

This weekend a group of eager trainers joined us at the ACT office for a Mastery Facilitation intensive. Participants learned the importance of remaining learner-focused and then identified: their natural and adaptive teaching styles; the unique needs of various audience groups; several different curriculum theories; and categories of challenging leaners and strategies to ensure their learning. And in true Master Facilitator form, they put it all togther and demonstrated to the rest of the class how they can adapt their learning to their own delivery.

Master Facilitator Training and Certfication is part of ACT Ltd.'s programme of courses. ACT is a unique authority in this field. For more information visit www.actraining.com.

ACT Proclaims Learn at Work Week 2008

Advance Corporate Training Ltd. supports lifelong learning through workplace and empowerment initiatives. To this end, we are joining organizations, institutions and communities across Canada to celebrate Learn at Work Week 2008. Visit our facebook group in August for a list of open-registration events and more on what we are doing for our own team.

About Learn At Work Week

It is well documented that Canadian firms are falling behind in investing in skills development. However, it is also well documented that learning has a positive impact on key business measures such as job performance and productivity. The weeklong celebration includes a number of activities and events designed to promote the importance of workplace learning and performance to key stakeholders and the public-at-large.

The goals of the Learn @ Work Week initiative are:

• To raise awareness of the impact of workplace learning

• To celebrate the best practices of workplace learning

• To celebrate the success of the ‘learning organization’

The proclamation...

We, Advance Corporate Training Ltd. recognize that:

1. Lifelong learning of Canadians impacts our economy, thereby ensuring the quality and security of jobs and raising our standard of living
2. Creating a culture of learning in the workplace positively impacts key measures such as job performance and productivity
3. ‘Learning organizations’ which exemplify best practices in workplace learning must be celebrated.

Now, therefore, I (We), Janet Dean, President, Advance Corporate Training Ltd. do hereby proclaim September 22-26, 2008 as Learn @ Work Week and urge Canadian organizations to join CSTD and Learn @ Work Week Champions in our community to celebrate that investing in developing people benefits the Canadian workforce and impacts our economic well-being.

For more information visit the Canadian Society for Training and Development at http://www.cstd.ca/

May I have this dance?….

After many episodes of Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance and one I'm embarassed to say I have seen (Master of Dance)...I was reviewing some workplace trends and discovered a theme...you'll see it in all our blogs this week... please read on...

Dancing close to your partner was an 18th century innovation that we know as the waltz. This metaphor well describes the workplace of the past where staff were expected to align their personal mandate closely with the corporate mandate and to mirror and model their boss to be able to climb the corporate ladder.

Today’s innovative workplaces are closer to another dance of the 17th and 18th century - minuets, where partners dance to the same rhythm but separately and loosely coupled. Today’s staff need the freedom of personal expression and individualism, not reminders to toe the company line. The minuet picked up tempo depending on the dancer and the musician… today’s workplaces must also demonstrate this situational flexibility.

And the future?

Well.. welcome back the Jitterbug! During the early 1900s, the Jitterbug was a dance performed by swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of the dance. This term was famously associated with swing era dancers by band leader Cab Calloway because, as he put it, "They look like a bunch of jitterbugs out there on the floor" due to their fast often bouncy movements on the dance floor.

In the future, our workplaces will rely less and less on the inherent expertise of our workers and more on tools and resources of expertise (like the content-rich aspects of the Internet, and the new generation of workplace productivity software). With our future employees expected to be less loyal and more mobile and the boomers aging out of the workforce, organizations will keep dancing but it will be the musicians who know the dance and the dancers who bring their energy and willingness to “jitterbug” that will take us in new, unknown directions.

Good Course - Good Cause

ACT gets up to par!

Tony Procure,Operations Manager with Advance Corporate Training, joined Kent O'Sullivan, Bryan Lowes and Rick Cox at the 5th Annual Drive to Stay Alive Charity Golf Tournament on Thursday June 19, 2008 at the Redwoods Golf Course in Langley, BC.

There was plenty of fun, great food, prizes, networking and a great day of golf, and the rain even managed to stay away.

Net proceeds from the BC Safety Council Golf Tournament will help support our Youth Injury Prevention Initiatives.

Ever wonder if our logo is a "hole in the head?"

Advance Corporate Training Ltd. (ACT) is a brain-based learning specialist - our logo represents the six key secrets to ensuring learning takes hold in the learner and can transfer back to the workplace. Here are the six secrets and why engaging each one of them encourages higher learning levels.

Personal Relevance
(Association Cortex)
When we associate learning with what we already know, we are more open to a new idea. Info that supports our existing knowledge is better retained and transferred on-the-job.

Kinesthetic Learning
(Motor Cortex)
When we are engaged physically while learning, our brain operates more efficiently and we are better able to apply learned skills consistently.

Emotion & Engagement
(Somatosensory Cortex)
Emotion is often missing in many adult learning environments. When we emotionally connect to the material we learn more and deeper. ACT designs all its courses to engage this cortex.

Auditory Learning
(Auditory Cortex)
When we listen and speak we deepen our understanding. This cortex needs time to engage, so the start of all conversations should be “losable” data.

Visual Learning
(Visual Cortex)
We all need to have visual stimulation to be energized by learning. If we visualize our changed performance, we are more able to achieve it.

Broca's Area
Our ability to communicate clearly and to understand complex concepts is controlled here. Without learning that engages this area of the brain, we know but we don't understand and can't share our knowledge. True learning occurs after we achieve understanding, and performance change can not occur without understanding. This area was identified in 1861 by Pierre Paul Broca to be the “seat of articulation”.

ACT Advances with a new appointment

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Shelly Nizar to the position of Staff Trainer/Learner Consultant, and PEAK Program Manager.

Shelly has recently moved back to Vancouver from San Francisco. Through Shelly’s extensive national and international travels, she brings over 20 years of facilitating and management experience; her expertise lies primarily in the fields of workforce development, retail and computers .

She is eager, energized and excited to meet and interact with existing and prospective Retail PEAK Trainers.

Our goal for the 2009 and 2010 year is to grow and enhance learning which will develop an expanding and progressive Retail industry. Shelly will be connecting with all existing trainers to conduct a short survey, to see how we can meet and exceed your needs.

With the Olympics on the horizon, more requests are coming in for front-line customer service, and sales and management development; at PEAK, we will be anticipating the growing needs in this ever changing and dynamic industry.

Model Activity at ACT

We always knew we were THE place to be!

Earlier this week, ACT offices were a buzz with excitement as the home of a rooftop photoshoot for a new clothing line. The clothes were interesting, the photographer active and the models COLD!

Oddest though - was the model who put on a teddy bear hat and gloves after posing beside one - she BECAME the bear!

Check out the shoot!

Click on an image for a closer view.

ACT Ltd. joins forces with the BC Safety Council

Together we tighten the focus on safety in the workplace.

On June 1, 2008, Advance Corporate Training Ltd. will join forces with the BC Safety Council to expand their repertoire of workplace training solutions for safety and occupational health and wellness. The BCSC has a long history of working for improved safety and injury prevention for front line workers, supervisors and safety officers. In recent years it has increasingly grown aware that the best safety programs will produce only minimal effects unless management and leadership share the same vision and commitment.

Bryan Lowes, BCSC Executive Director says, “we know that safety is a front line issue but it is also much more than that. When organizations don’t up skill their people or support Safety and Health initiatives from the top down, the vitality and productivity of their enterprise is at risk. It takes active participation from the top down to make it so.” The new partnership brings in Advance Corporate Training Ltd.’s expertise, resources and experience in leadership and management training to help spread the safety message to this underserved organizational level.
Janet Dean, Advance Corporate Training Ltd. President adds, “We too share the vision of active, committed organizational leadership in all aspects of strategic focus including Safety, Heath and Wellness. By joining forces with BCSC we hope to improve workplace safety awareness for all workers in BC.”

When seeking a partner, BCSC went looking for a training company who could round out their strengths and yet shared their same vision of effectiveness – integrity – vision and found it right in their own back yard. Advance Corporate Training Ltd. is a New- Westminster based international training company that has been providing workplace training solutions for over 18 years.

This new partnership will co-create specialized programming, share resources and compliment each others client services while focusing on helping business and individuals prevent injury through safety education.

For more information contact;

Kent O’Sullivan

kent_osullivan@safetycouncil.bc.ca

British Columbia Safety Council
TEL 604 214 7433
http://www.safetycouncilbc.ca/

Tony Procure

admin@actraining.com
Advance Corporate Training Ltd.

TEL 604 521 5473

http://www.actraining.com/