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.
Joseph Macdonald is the founder and current President of Angus Associates,
consultants and trainers in change management. He previously served as Director
of the MBA (Financial Services) Program at Dalhousie University. In addition
to this position, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in International
Business, Multicultural Management, Finance, Accounting, and Strategy for
universities in Canada, China, and southern Africa. Joseph received his
B.Comm. degree from the University of Alberta and his MBA from Dalhousie
University. He has conducted research and undertaken consulting contracts
in the areas of Needs Assessment, Competency Modelling, Project Management,
Management in a Multicultural Setting, Cultural Integration in Mergers and
Acquisitions, International Financial Management, and International Market
Development.
Joseph has held financial services and wholesale management positions in
businesses across Canada, and general management positions in southern Africa.
He has consulted in the areas of human resource leadership and management,
curriculum development, market development, strategy implementation, and
turn-around strategy to companies in North America, Asia, South America,
and Africa. He has also operated his own marketing, wholesale, and consulting
companies.
Joseph brings new approaches and concepts to bear on old problems and processes.
He is an entrepreneur by design and in spirit. He understands the emotional
competencies and adaptability that individuals require in their environment,
and within themselves, to thrive and to nurture success.
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. |
