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Mona Mitchell Addresses The Career Foundation's VIP Power Seminar
Posted October 12, 2009
On Friday October 9th, ACHIEVEBLUE President and CEO Mona Mitchell delivered a keynote presentation to business leaders from over 30 major firms at the Career Foundation's VIP Power Seminar. The theme of the event, "Recruiting, Retaining, and Reenergizing Employees in the Post Recession Era" is top of mind for business executives today.
Mona's presentation focused on Organizational Culture as the Missing Link that needs to be understood as a critical enabler for achieving successful employee attraction, engagement and retention. Key messages included:
- Organizational culture is the foundation for sustained excellence.
- A robust culture creates the optimal environment for strategic execution with focus, speed and agility.
- Culture sets the tone for the personal accountability, team effectiveness and stakeholder engagement necessary for organizations success.
Wardrop Engineering Launches Management Essentials Program with High Praise for ACHIEVEBLUEPosted September 8, 2009
Wardrop Engineering engaged ACHIEVEBLUE for the turnkey design and development of their comprehensive New Manager On Boarding Program. This program has been so well received that it has now been repositioned as Management Essentials and offered to all Wardop managers. Kim Buote of Wardrop Corporate Training and Development said "At every turn, ACHIEVEBLUE demonstrated superior levels of creativity, subject matter expertise, strategic analysis and operational excellence. In many ways, the ACHIEVEBLUE Team became my strategic partner and coach – as we worked side-by-side to deliver a complex program within significant resource and time constraints." Click here to view the complete testimonial.
CME Announces Partnership with ACHIEVEBLUE for Award-Winning Learning Curriculum
Posted August 11, 2009
“CME is pleased to partner with ACHIEVEBLUE to deliver this valuable curriculum,” says CME President & CEO Jayson Myers. “This partnership will better enable CME to provide organizations the tools they need to achieve results through people. Developing and investing in staff is always a key imperative, but in these times of economic challenge it is more important than ever.”
“We are very excited about this partnership with CME as it allows us to bring this great curriculum to CME members and our clients internationally,” says ACHIEVEBLUE CEO, Mona Mitchell. “ACTIVE Leadership is an element in a powerful, integrated learning curriculum that has been awarded three consecutive American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) Excellence in Practice Awards.
“This curriculum will strengthen our current leadership and culture programs,” Mitchell adds. “We recognize that the core function of leadership is to produce talent at every level of the organization and the addition of ACTIVE Leadership, VISION and Continuous Improvement to our offerings will help us accomplish that.”
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) is Canada’s leading trade and industry association and the voice of manufacturing and global business in Canada.
The association represents more than 10,000 leading companies nationwide. More than 85% of CME’s members are small and medium-sized enterprises. As Canada’s leading business network, CME, through various initiatives including icosmo.ca and the establishment of the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition, touches more than 100,000 companies from coast to coast, engaged in manufacturing, global business and service-related industries. CME’s membership network accounts for an estimated 82% of total manufacturing production and 90% of Canada’s exports.
Click here to download the media release.
ACHIEVEBLUE Receives 'In Kind Support 2009 Recognition Award' from Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada
Posted July 7, 2009
Mona Mitchell, President, ACHIEVEBLUE was honored to accept the ‘In Kind Support 2009 Recognition Award’ from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada at their Annual General Meeting.
Mona, who serves as a member at large on the Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada Board of Directors began this initiative as a charitable contribution and a way for ACHIEVEBLUE to give back to the community. This quickly became both a personal and a company commitment to the organization.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada (BBBSC) is the leading child and youth serving organization providing mentoring programs across the country. Providing support to more than 1000 Canadian communities, our over 140 local agencies offer the service that the organization was founded on: One-to-One Matching. Men and women (age 18 or older) give of their time to become a mentor to a young person who can greatly benefit from having an adult role model to look up to.
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Mona Mitchell AddressesThe Toronto Chapter of the International Institute of Business AnalysisPosted June 25, 2009
On Wednesday June 24th, ACHIEVEBLUE President and CEO Mona Mitchell repeated her very successful presentation from Project World - Business Analysis World Toronto to the IIBA® Toronto Chapter. Entitled "The Impact of Culture on Project Performance", this presentation is designed for a broad range of groups, including business executives, project sponsors, key stakeholders, project managers, business analysts and development / quality assurance teams,
Project culture is a microcosm of the organizational culture within which it operates. But what is culture? Organizations spend millions of dollars setting up policies, practices, methodologies and tools to make projects effective and successful. This is investing in what is known as Climate. Culture is very different and talks directly to the effectiveness and performance of your people:
- What is it like to work around here, in this project, and what are the attitudes and behaviours that I need to develop to survive and thrive in it?
- To what degree do I own the culture of my project?
- What is the influence of my project manager on my attitudes, behaviours and performance?
- Is the culture of my project inspiring me to innovate, collaborate, grow professionally?
- Do I understand how I can contribute to the strategic goals of my organization through this project?
- Does my project manager inspire me to do this?
Jason Questor Named Project Lead in the Development of IIBA® Enterprise Analysis Guide
Posted June 18, 2009
ACHIEVEBLUE Partner and Chief Learning Officer Jason Questor has accepted the position of leading the development of a major publication from the International Institute of Business Analysis®. With a working title of A Guide to Enterprise Analysis, this volume will focus on strategic level business analysis concepts, principles and practice as it applies to enterprise wide programs. The Guide is tentatively scheduled for release in early 2011.
Jason is founding President of the Toronto Chapter of the IIBA® and served as Editor, Contributor and Graphics Team Lead for the recently released A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® Version 2.0.
ACHIEVEBLUE Corporation Launches
New High Impact Leadership Development Process
Posted June 10, 2009
Leadership not only a position, also a privilege, says co-author.
“Why should anybody want to be led by you?” That’s the question that Mona Mitchell, CEO of ACHIEVEBLUE™ Corporation, loves to ask the people she meets when she talks about leadership development. “If you can answer that question clearly and convincingly to yourself, then you’re well on your way to being a leader”, she adds.
It’s this belief in the deep thinking leader that has led Mitchell and her business partner, Myrna Ain, to invest in the development of what Ain calls, “probably the most thought-provoking, intense and deeply positive leadership development process I’ve ever been part of building.” Given Ain’s reputation in business, working with executives around the world, that’s quite a statement but one she is confident The ACHIEVEBLUE Leader™ delivers.
The development process begins by using a comprehensive assessment instrument that provides leaders with entirely new perspectives on how their leadership is impacting the people who look to them for leadership and how ultimately they impact the attitudes and behaviours of their current organizational culture. The output is used to help foster insights into what’s working now, and what needs to change. ACHIEVEBLUE™ says their approach is not simply competency-based, but rather leadership strategy-based. “Leaders need to not only know how to make themselves successful in how they lead but also how to serve as role models for a constructive culture that mirrors the values espoused by the organizational vision,” comments Myrna Ain.
Mitchell says that the considerable investment her firm has made in the research and design of the ACHIEVEBLUE Leader™ is a defining moment in her career-long involvement in the learning business, most of it in senior executive positions. “This isn’t the usual leadership program. We’ve all been there and done that before. We wanted to blow the doors off the old way of dealing with leadership development. We committed ourselves to build something that was edgy, new, challenging and powerful. Our team has delivered just that.”
Ain adds, “I’ve always believed that leadership is more than a position, it’s really a privilege. And I think leaders need to be courageous enough to think deeply about why they want to be a leader, and about what will make them a great leader. That’s what the ACHIEVEBLUE Leader™ is all about.”
The program has been in development for over a year and is now ready for ACHIEVEBLUE’s™ existing and future clients to use. Says Mitchell, “the people I’ve already shown the materials to are very excited about what we’ve created. It’s so refreshing to share our work with people who understand what we’ve done and why it’s so different. I’m very excited about the impact this program is going to have on leaders at all levels in all kinds of industries.”
Click here for more information on The Achieveblue Leader.
ACHIEVEBLUE Presents at Calgary ConferenceNovember 07, 2008
On November 6th Achieveblue Partner Myrna Ain addressed this year`s Summit on the Mature Workplace conference, held in Calgary. Myrna`s presentation focused on creating an age-free culture in the workplace. An age-free culture embraces calculated risk, unleashing greater innovation, creativity, collaboration, knowledge sharing and productivity amongst all generations. Being both adaptive and transformational, the inspiring culture that results sustains long term success.
This session uncovered how culture affects every aspect of the organization and, most important, why it has a substantial effect on re-engagement of the older workforce and ultimately the organization`s prosperity and longevity.
Participants were provided with tools to analyze the culture in their own organization, identify actions needed to create an age-free culture and specific actions that can be used to improve their own workplace culture.
Contact us at 416-236-3005 extension 207 if you would like to arrange for this or other Achieveblue presentations for your organization.