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Building tomorrow’s leaders at

tomlinson university

One of our core values is People: Attracting, developing and retaining the best people. We believe

that offering ongoing training and development courses to our employees helps us to entice better

candidates to Tomlinson and helps us to retain the best employees too. Continual development of

our employees is key to our ongoing success.

As Tomlinson employees, we are all able to paricipate in plus outside of class homework assignments. We ofer the

the courses and training sessions ofered under the Tomlinson classes several imes throughout the year in 2-3 day segments.

University umbrella. This year we have partnered with Employees will have two years to complete all of the classes.

Algonquin College to ofer an even more robust cross-secion Feedback from the paricipants has been very posiive.
of development oferings. Some of the programs include Since January 1st, Tomlinson University has had over

the Construcion Leadership & Supervision course and the 300 employees take professional development training (that

Fundamentals of Leadership ceriicate.
number includes employees that took more than one course).

The Construcion Leadership & Supervision course has Our professional development classes are ofered at the
been very popular. This four day program focuses on building Centurion Centre. The team there has been doing an excellent

criical construcion supervision and leadership skills in job of making us feel welcome and catering to the students’

communicaion, moivaing individuals and teams, managing needs. Our technical classes such as Excel level 2, Excel level

ield producivity, conlict management and negoiaion skills. 3 or Basic Computer Skills were ofered at locaions that had
We’ve had over 20 employees go through the program so far, computer training labs so the employees could get hands on

and have had some really good feedback about the course computer skills training.

content. We are looking forward to seeing the employees’ new The Tomlinson University professional development

knowledge applied on the job this construcion season.
classes run to the end of June and will start up again in
Employees who complete the Fundamentals of Leadership January 2017. However, our Safety courses run throughout

program will receive an Algonquin College ceriicate, since the full calendar year. If you are interested in taking courses

these are accredited courses with the college. To earn the or exploring your opions speak to your direct supervisor or

ceriicate, employees need to complete 10 days of training,
contact hr@tomlinsongroup.com.

Coming soon! 2016 SeASonAL SPrIng

StArt-uP meetIngS

Seasonal kickof meeings this spring for many Divisions Detailed agendas will be shared in the coming weeks
for the following groups:
are coming soon to the Centurion Center. Get ready for the

season ahead, refresh your health and safety skills and talk City Division
Heavy Civil Division

about operaional eiciencies. These sessions will also cover April 29th
May 6th

topics relaing to Human Resources, Accouning, Contract Ready Mix
Greenbelt Construcion
Administraion and IT.
Week of April 11th
April 4th

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