"Cultural changes are among the most challenging and lengthy processes. Our tailor-made training session with Brenda Barker from Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre allowed us to save time and avoid common mistakes in planning our change project within the Admission Service. Being able to share as a corporate group the understanding, vision and language about change made a big difference."
Raymond Lemieux
Vice-Président Services des Ressources Humaines /
VP Human Resources Services
Hôpital Général de Hawkesbury
/ Hawkesbury General Hospital & District
The Queen’s Industrial Relations Centre’s main program offerings are held in Kingston, Ontario. We are mindful, however, that some organizations need to put a number of employees through a development program that is customized to their needs. We also understand that staying competitive and adding value means training employees for specific roles within an existing culture. That’s why many organizations and associations in both the private and public sectors partner with us to develop training programs with high impact and relevancy.
We would be pleased to sit down with your senior management team to learn more about your organizational environment and the specific needs that must be addressed. It may be a planned change initiative or high-performance teams that need to be built following a corporate restructuring. We will recommend appropriate learning modules and faculty, fine-tune the proposal with feedback from your senior management team, and then deliver the custom program – in-house at your organization, at a training venue in your city, or at Queen’s award-winning executive development facility at our Kingston campus. And we guarantee the same high level of service that makes our open enrolment programs so distinctive.
Queen’s IRC is also able to offer our full industrial relations and organization development Certificate programs in other regions of the country, as we did in the Northwest Territories (industrial relations) and Saskatchewan (organization development and human resource management). This may involve working with a consortium of organizations, enabling nationally recognized management development to be delivered close to home. We would be pleased to suggest ways to build a consortium and assist you in that process.
Some of our recent partners and clients include:
Alberta Environment (organizational design)
Algonquin Lakeshore Catholic District School Board (organization development)
AGF (dispute resolution)
Assiniboine Credit Union (change management)
City of Kingston (leadership development)
Cognos (change management)
Halton District School Board (industrial relations)
Hydro Ottawa (change management)
Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (change management)
Suncor Energy (change management)
Telesat Canada (change management)
For more information, contact:
Stephanie Noel
Industrial Relations Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
