The over-riding objective
of Anderson Vacations corporate
retreat and facilitation team is to provide your
enterprise and its employees with a customized
and exclusive experience that is designed to meet
your specific requirements.
By definition, generic, off-the-shelf employee
development programs cannot achieve a truly differentiated
positive impact on performance. For this reason
we work closely with each client to provide customized
and relevant solutions. We believe that although
there will always be common elements within industries
and business, your firm’s immediate needs
are unique to you.
Our competent, knowledgeable, and experienced
facilitators, working together with our internationally
experienced program originators, designers and
deliverers will ensure that your company receives
a uniquely designed corporate retreat. We are
committed to leveraging the knowledge, experience
and skills of each participant for the benefit
of the entire group. A sampling of the areas in
which we have assisted clients with achieving
dynamically innovative solutions includes Corporate
Strategy Development, Change Management Initiatives,
Multi-Cultural Effectiveness, Leadership Enhancement,
Turn-Around Strategy, Team Building, and Motivation.
We have the network and personnel in
place to identify a broad range of retreat locations
and to design a program that combines the best
of people, place and product. Working with our
team of highly skilled academics and facilitators
can not only provide you with the tools and skills
to meet your immediate demand, but can also dramatically
increase your opportunities to expand your range
of clients and scope of products, as well as increase
your productivity in delivering existing products
and services.
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We begin our process with detailed
planning for the upcoming session. This first
step involves client meetings where the issues
to be addressed and the desired outcomes of the
session are clearly defined. In addition, this
is an opportunity for the client to identify who
the primary session participants will be, and
the specific level of senior corporate involvement.
The second step in the planning stage is to draft
a session itinerary for the client. This provides
a double check of the clarity of understanding
and interpretation of the process and objectives.
The
Developer(s)/Facilitator(s) set to work on designing
detailed session materials and activities. At
the same time potential locations are identified.
It is imperative that both the facilitator(s)
and the surroundings make the participants feel
at ease and at home in their environment so that
we achieve the highest possible degree of input
and participation.
The necessary support materials and the related
activities are designed so that they provide a
seamless and integrated flow. Each element of
the agenda supports and nurtures the participants
and their achieving the desired outcomes. In a
final wrap-up discussion participants highlight
and review their learnings and the session’s
outcomes. Should the client desire, with their
cooperation, we can also design and deliver a
session evaluation.
Our competent, knowledgeable, and experienced
facilitators, working together with our internationally
experienced program originators, designers and
deliverers will ensure that your company receives
a uniquely designed corporate retreat.
Detailed resumes and CVs are available on request,
as are a complete list of clients and references.
Your custom designed program can be delivered
at any time of the year. Our network of Developer/Facilitators
is available to offer programs in a broad range
of retreat locations Nationally and Internationally.
No matter the location, we are committed to designing
and delivering a program that combines the best
of people, place and product.
As all packages are customized to meet the specific
request and needs of the client, the price and
duration will vary. Quotations will be provided
on request.
Can
be arranged to all National and International
locations.
Can be arranged at local hotels, lodges and resorts
worldwide.
Meals can be incorporated into the packages,
if requested.
Past
clients include:
- Financial institutions such as the Royal
Bank Financial Group and Bank of Montreal;
- Telecommunication companies such as Telus
and Bell Northern Research;
- Public service institutions such as the RCMP
and Government of Canada;
- International institutions such as the United
States Embassy, United Nations Centre for Human
Settlements, and Government of Indian - Department
of Finance (National Housing Bank);
- National & International universities such
as University of Toronto, Canadian Centre for
Management Development, University of Alaska,
and Xiamen University, China;
- Transportation companies such as Canadian
National Rail and the Halifax Port Corporation;
- Airlines such as Cathay Pacific;
- Technology companies such as Hewlett Packard
and Nortel;
- Petroleum corporations such as Nova Corporation,
and Sherritt Gordon;
- Utility companies such as ICG Utilities;
- Manufacturing companies such as Iron Ore Company
of Canada.
A complete list of clients and references is
available upon request.
Bastiaan
is an internationally acclaimed facilitator, educator,
author and corporate psychologist and the winner
of several teaching awards. Dr. Heemsbergen has
also been featured on CBC, The Globe and Mail,
Access Television as well as several Canadian
radio stations. He has significantly impacted
the acquisition of skills and knowledge of students
and participants across the globe.
Currently on faculty at Banff Centre (Leadership
Development) he is the recipient of the Faculty
of the Year Award as well as the Significant Impact
of the Year Award. His clients have included multi
- national organizations and small businesses,
universities and colleges, and municipal, federal
and provincial governments in Canada, the Caribbean,
Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Bastiaan’s current writings and research
focus on leadership and innovation. He has been
teaching with Dalhousie University/Institute of
Canadian Bankers and the Canadian Petroleum Institute
since 1997. Dr. Heemsbergen has also taught at
the University of Alberta, the University of Lethbridge
and the University of Calgary.
President & CEO
Robert's vision and enthusiasm for using knowledge
as a critical success factor has been the catalyst
and model for structuring and developing Learning
Dividends into an industry respected e-Learning
company.
Prior to co-founding Learning Dividends, Robert
Ironside spent many years in both academic and
managerial positions. He was a corporate account
manager for two of Canada's largest banks, a contract
administrator for an international manufacturing
company, a VP Corporate Development for a TSE
listed public oil company, a finance professor
and an entrepreneur. Robert was the primary force
behind developing the concept that went public
on the TSE as Trilogy Resource Corporation. He
was a co-founder and Director of Primeline Capital
Corp.; an ASE listed Junior Capital Pool Corporation.
Robert has taught and consulted in over twenty
countries, including Barbados, China, India, Jamaica,
Latvia, Lithuania and South Africa. His extensive
academic training includes doctoral studies in
finance at the University of Toronto, an MBA in
Finance, a BA in Economics, and a Professional
Diploma in Secondary Education. Robert is widely
recognized for his exceptional teaching abilities:
in three years at the University of Calgary, he
was twice chosen for the Superior Teacher Award
by the students of the Faculty of Management and
once chosen for the Master Teacher Award by the
Students Union, University of Calgary.
Andy Tamas is the founder and Director of Tamas
Consultants Inc., a family-based firm in Almonte,
Ontario that focuses on leadership, human relations,
team building, evaluation, training, institution
building and organization development in a diverse
and changing society. Clients include the House
of Commons, the Canadian military, United Nations
operations in Afghanistan, NORTEL, the Canadian
Human Rights Commission, Habitat for Humanity
International, Citizenship & Immigration Canada,
and several Aboriginal organizations.
Andy evaluated the development of a national
network of mental health consumers/survivors,
helped prepare an Employment Equity Policy for
the House of Commons, and addressed allegations
of racism and unequal treatment among the security
staff of a large public housing agency in Toronto.
Andy's international development activities include
providing strategic planning services for a rapidly
growing NGO, helping CIDA define a framework for
belief and culture in development, and support
for a tutor-assisted secondary school program
with over 60,000 students in Colombia. His formal
training is in community development, social work
and adult education in an intercultural context. |
