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Big Fish Career Path for downsized government employees

Career Coaching Programs specially designed for recently downsized government employees.
-Ignite the next stage of your career!
-Learn how to leverage your experience for the private sector.
-Empower yourself with a high performance approach to owning your career and building dreams. Now doesn’t that sound a whole lot better than “surviving a layoff”? Absolutely!
-Coaching packages for 3, 6, and 9 sessions via in-person/telephone/Skype and supported with weekly coaching notes to keep you motivated and engaged!
– Our track record is rather amazing too! Way beyond resume tips, we help clients leap to the next level!
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Corporate Dragon Boat Events in Vancouver & Toronto

The ultimate corporate team building activity, Dragon Boating. Join us in Vancouver and Toronto or we’ll bring boats to your favorite resort!

Testimonies prove the business relevance for our clients:
• The dragon boating experience was a powerful way to physically “feel” the team’s synchronicity and truly understand what high performance “feels” like at the organizational level.
• Dragon boating supported informal relationship building, allowed a chance to see individuals outside of their usual work environments, was a really fun way to learn the value of teamwork and synergy and for me the “unusual” nature of the learning experience cements those lessons more clearly in my head.
• Dragon Boating – so out of the ‘usual’. Great to see people in another setting.
• Dragon boating was tops IMO – different environment, physically and socially based (as opposed to intellectually based, etc…) Impactful exercise that acts as a physical metaphor. There were no managerial layers with this team building exercise, and all the roles were primarily the same, which makes this exercise unique and distinguishes it from the others.
• Out of the box approach and lots of analogies to draw from it
• It adds an extra element of camaraderie when leadership events are external and something new for most participants (equal and neutral playing ground).
• Excellent experience.
Healthcare client

Big Fish in the News

Globe and Mail Article

Globe and Mail Video Interview with Andrew Reid

Report on Business Magazine

Metro Paper link

Living on the Other side of the Finish Line

Living on the other side of the finish line Skills for planned success.

Interested in your own private workshop in Vancouver or Toronto? Choose from 15 topics for groups of 12 to 25. Ideal for optimizing small groups when needed without the cost of an off-site.

Email us right now for more details:
info@bigfishinteractive.com

Taking care of people while taking care of business.

Many of today’s business leaders would agree that it is important to take care of employees after a merger or acquisition, but despite good intentions the human factor (read: unpredictable) can lay waste to best laid plans or plans not laid at all.

“I’ve had M&A guys tell me that after buying a company for hundreds of millions of dollars they watched as the value tanked because the star performers stop performing,” says Andrew Reid, Big Fish Interactive, a Toronto-based developer of leadership and corporate training programs. “They planned upfront for every eventuality except the one that can break a company – not taking care of the people.”

While these companies can create short term results with better products and pricing, sustainable growth and revenue happens only when leaders focus on business relationships. “The relationship between staff and the new company direction is key,” suggests Reid. “Employees worry about mortgages and tuition costs when change threatens their security or personal contribution.”

Anyone who has lived through a merger will identify with the behavioral issues that change brings. Some organizations promise lucrative bonuses and other incentives in order to keep behaviors in check and to hold onto talent after a merger, but Reid believes that it is important to deal honestly with employees need to participate in positive change. “We run a lot of programs geared to helping staff through the transition while also laying the groundwork for future growth.”

One point Reid imparts to leaders is that employee departures and performance issues after a merger are good feedback to management that they have not inspired a strong following. “Employees will always follow a dynamic leader who pushes them to greater goals….and, here’s the key message…when those employees have been invited to actively participate in their own success.”

Contact Big Fish for more information about helping employees through change.

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