INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / AUGUST 21, 1990

 

 

 

 

Successful firms’ needs met at College Training Centre

ell-trained employees

give companies the com-

petitive edge. That’s
what Gerry Fourcier, Manager of
Human Resources at Common-
wealth Construction in Burnaby,

structure and present a two-day in-
house effective writing workshop
for our senior managers to im-
prove their business writing," says
Fourcier. "We were able to discuss
what we wanted out of the course

discovered after his experience and direct it at our people."

with a new Business Training Being able to tailor the

Centre at Douglas College. workshop to fit their criteria made
The Centre helped Fourcier it a success, says Fourcier. “It al-

design an effective training pro-

gram for his staff. That’s when he

realized that skilled employees can

help make a company competitive.
"We used their services to

lowed our managers to gain some
basic writing skills, and greater
confidence as well."

Fourcier also learned that in
an economy where weak com-

 

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panies don’t survive, training has
to be an ongoing process.

"You always need to upgrade
to add to your experience and
knowledge. Competition in the
private sector is much more sig-
nificant today than it was even ten
years ago. You’ve got to be shar-
pers

Jennifer Edwards, coordinator
of the College’s Business Training
Centre, says that’s the attitude
companies must adopt if they
want to remain competitive in the
1990's.

"The time has come for any
business to recognize that training
is an integral part of profit," says
Edwards.

Well-trained employees are
the key to helping a firm flourish
in the boom times, and preventing
it from going under in bad times.
"Skilled employees give com-
panies the competitive edge," she
says.

Edwards says that through the
Business Training Centre, com-
panies can design training courses
for employees that meet their
specific needs.

"Often businesses put their
people into'general training cour-
ses, but then find out that they
weren't what was needed," says
Edwards. "It’s really important to
tailor courses to companies, to
departments, even to specific
groups within a department.
That’s what the Business Training
Centre can do."

Edwards says each firm’s
training needs are different.

"We do not offer any ‘off the
shelf’ packages," she says. "We go
to a company, listen to them, and
find out what they need. This
adaptable training allows the com-
pany to change much more quick-
ly in an economy that changes
quickly."

The result is an effective and
cost-efficient training package. But

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