The Group has developed hundreds of programs, courses, workshops and seminars. These have ranged from large, bilingual national programs with train-the-trainer components to one-day workshops for small groups of staff. Our content specialities are career development and leadership, but we can develop effective programs in any content area with the help of Life-Role Analysis, a curriculum design tool developed by Kris Magnusson and Dave Redekopp.

Some recent program development projects include:

• Drug Endangered Children, a workshop on mobilizing multi-disciplinary Drug Endangered Children Teams in communities to protect children living in homes with methamphetamine labs or marijuana grow operations
• Career Development in Organizations, an e-learning course within the new “Campus Alberta” Master of Counselling program (offered jointly by Athabasca University, University of Calgary and University of Lethbridge).
• Foundations of Assessment, a four-day course preceded by readings and assignments addressing core competencies of the Canadian Career Development Standards and Guidelines (see http://www.career-dev-guidelines.org/). This was developed for front-line workers within Alberta Human Resources and Employment.
• Time/Work Management, an intensive web-based course on time/work management for an international firm. An underlying principle guiding course development was: “Work will get done while learning’s going on.” It can be hard to sustain motivation in web-delivered courses, so we created a course that is productive as well as educational.
• Everyday Coaching, a two-day course for supervisors/managers preceded by web-based readings and work, and followed by an assignment with feedback.
• Field Coaching, a four or five-day course developed for the RCMP that teaches members how to coach and supervise members new to the service.
• Interactive Leadership, a ten-day course originally developed for the RCMP but since tailored for a variety of clients (see Training for Leaders for more info.).