Ask For Directions Business Training supports and trains new entrepreneurs to set up and grow businesses and is a certified coaching organization of the International Coaching Federation. An on-line training company and sub-division of Grow Vantage Inc., a 17 year old company, it is dedicated to establishing businesses through knowledge, mentoring and community, employing specialized expert trainers to deliver up-to-date business knowledge and advice. We work with entrepreneurs to design, launch and grow their businesses, teaching strategies in marketing, sales, communications, finance, regulatory and productivity techniques: what entrepreneurs need to know to operate and grow a business successfully, and avoid costly mistakes that delay success. The program combines self-study online modules with weekly coaching sessions, and community resources.
Patricia Dent is a certified coach, Business Mentor & CEO of both companies, a 5-year mentor of the City of Barrie’s Starter Company program, Past President, the Barrie Chamber of Commerce and executive, and a member, Simcoe Entrepreneurial Eco-System. She is also a volunteer co-founder of Small Business Connect networking organization (est. 2011) and the Xcelerate Summit Planning Committee (annual business week conference, est. 2014). She combines over 30 years of business experience (start-up through corporate, in industry sectors ranging from telecom to healthcare and financial services including the Toronto Stock Exchange).
I am an HR and organizational consultant for municipal government clients. I bring my 25+ years of senior level HR leadership experience to the table to help municipalities align their resources with stakeholder needs. Bottom line? I help clients ensure they have the right people in the right positions doing the right things, without breaking the bank. I work at a grassroots level and design solutions that will fit your organization, not apply an off the shelf model for individual situations.
I am often retained after a consulting engagement as a change coach to ensure the changes that are committed to in the heat of the moment continue to be a priority. I have also had great success in coaching CAO’s and aspiring CAO’s to successfully achieve their goals.
You’ve invested in your organization, but traditional education only addressed the technical skills. It didn’t teach you how to be outstanding in today’s increasingly demanding work environments or how to maximize the effectiveness of you or your team.
Soft skills like communication, problem solving and creative thinking are needed to better prepare your team to excel. They prepare them for what the day brings, and for what the job becomes over time.
CHC Consulting provides professional skills training, giving you a competitive edge. Plan a customized private session, and brush up on your leadership, critical review, and goal-setting skills in a unique environment. Enhance your employee’s soft skills to be a more essential part of your team. Or join one of our group sessions for building resilience during workplace transitions or our management boot camp.
We support organizations to retain their key staff and reduce turnover. Using our unique blend of a traditional classroom setting and experiential learning, staff teams develop the soft skills necessary to increase effectiveness and efficiency and build resilience to workplace stress and navigate transitions.
My approach to careers is not the typical approach you would see.
I believe that our careers are an integral part of our lives. As with everything in life, our careers don’t exist in isolation. They affect other aspects of our lives and all aspects of our lives affect our careers. So my approach is more holistic when it comes to career transition. We look at the bigger picture, such as your stories for clues from your past, we talk about your lifestyle and what worked and what didn’t. And then we discuss possibilities and you decide on what inspired action you will commit to.
So if you are looking for feel more fulfilled and in all aspects of your life, let’s chat to see what working together could look like.
I’m an Executive & Team coach. I help develop leaders through coaching and skill development so they can lead their teams and achieve improved employee engagement, innovation creation, team performance, customer service, and overall execution. When I work with teams we help them to learn about their strengths and how to work more collaboratively together so that they can be agile together and meet the needs of the customer and the organization overall.
My services include:
– Overall Change plan development & Implementation
– Coaching – Executive, Leadership, Professional
– Team Development for leaders, professionals and teams
– Leadership Development – Coaching skills for leaders, Management skills for Leaders, Inspiring Leadership skills
– Team Development – Team assessments, Team Climate Profile, Team 360’s. Team facilitation
– Personality Assessments
– Individual 360’s
Check out my YouTube Channel for helpful videos:
Judger vs. Leader
Inner Critic
Organizations of every size and sector depend on talented individuals, teams, and leaders to realize their success. Odgers Berndtson’s strength lies in the partnerships we develop to address that need. We form strong relationships with the most talented people, with those seeking them and between our own teams globally to bring both sides together. It is because of our deep, non-transactional and lasting partnerships, that our clients can acquire, develop and retain their strongest leaders.
Odgers Berndtson is a global leader in executive search,committed to providing an integrated approach to talentmanagement. They specialize in recruiting and assessing seniorexecutives and board members in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors across Canada, and internationally.
We work with organizations to strengthen their most valuable asset, their people.
We help our clients seamlessly recruit, develop, and optimize talent to create competitive advantages, improve performance and achieve organizational goals.
Established in 1975, our firm has remained competitive through our commitment to delivering integrated and innovative solutions to human capital challenges. The KBRS team of more than 60 professionals operate from offices in Halifax, Moncton, St. John’s, Calgary and Toronto.
We are a part of Canada’s leading integrated human capital company, a global leader in talent mobility – LHH Knightsbridge. Together, with over 300 offices in more than 60 countries we support clients through recruitment, HR consulting, career transition, leadership development, assessment and coaching.
Through our partnerships and extensive network, we offer our clients the vast resources of an international firm with a tailored approach informed by local insight.
Deloitte provides audit & assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax and related services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries.
Deloitte serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies through a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries and territories bringing world-class capabilities, insights and service to address clients’ most complex business challenges.
Deloitte LLP is the Canadian member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, which is a network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity.
EXPERTEERS is a group of passionate engineers who are working to make a difference in construction and telecom / IT industries in order to enable our customers to focus on their strategic objectives such as developing new revenue streams, gain and maintain market share and competitive advantages:
• Experteers is a well-established provider of consulting and contracting services to Canadian Telecom / IT industries.
• Experteers has highly caliber teams to cater for the increasing demand of construction, telecom and IT projects implementation.
• Through our services we enable our customers to focus on their strategic objectives such as developing new revenue streams, gain and maintain market share and competitive advantages.
• As a responsible member of the global IT & Telecom eco-system, Experteers is committed to a set of high-standard values and to fulfilling its social and environmental responsibilities in the community, thus contributing to long term sustainability.
• Experteers is a financially sound company.
MISSION STATEMENT
We provide engineering and contracting services to Canadian Telecom and Construction industries, by attracting and retaining highly caliber teams to enable our customers to focus on their strategic objectives.
VISION STATEMENT
To be the most valuable service provider for telecom and construction companies operating in Canada by enabling our clients to lead,
Specializing in Non-Profit and Public-Sector Leaders that want to create more cohesive senior teams to achieve their mission and goals. Leaders like you often get frustrated because their senior teams are not as cohesive as they would like or do not have the right people in the right seats.
The impact of these issues include:
-Wasted time and resources when the wrong person is hired;
-Frustration and time spent resolving conflicts and handling communication issues; and
-Burnout due to spending too much unproductive time on the wrong things.
Leaders like you come to us when they are ready to make a change. When they do, they experience the following benefits:
-Assurance that they are hiring the best person for the job and not missing any red flags that they will regret later;
A senior team that is better equipped to communicate with, coach, and motivate staff to be accountable and achieve their goals.
Relief/assurance that they have a sounding board to discuss and resolve their most pressing people challenges.
Sophie Mathewson is one of the most seasoned executive coaches in the country. In addition to multiple client success stories, she is: one of the earliest to receive an ICF coaching designation; certified in multiple highly validated assessment tools; the author of the HR Manager’s Guide to Coaching (published by Carswell a Division of Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd.); and a faculty member of a leading coach training school.
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