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Client Testimonials - Corporate Training

Alberta Central

At Alberta Central, we have strong corporate and cultural values that we live by. Since 2015, Chinook Learning Services has been instrumental in working with us to ensure quality training programs are delivered and that those programs are in line with our strategic view to communicate and support these values to our employees. Running sessions twice per year, Franca Best has provided us with quality instructors who tailor the course material to correspond with our requirements. Half day sessions such as Building Successful Teams, Positivity Matters, Respectful Workplace, Up We Go, Courage to Risk, and Accountability Matters have delivered engaging and informative course material to our employees that they can utilize both at Alberta Central as well as in their personal lives. Employee feedback consistently refers to the positive growth they have gained by attending the sessions. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Chinook to assist us in equipping our employees with enriching and valuable learning opportunities.

Johanna Bravo
Manager, People & Culture
Alberta Central

Alberta Council of Disability Services

Our organization has utilized Chinook Learning Services Corporate Training solutions to prepare for our MS Office upgrade. The course was personalized to our needs and presented in a professional and enjoyable manner. It made our software transition so much easier, and the recommended K-cards have been a further useful resource. Individually, our employees have accessed various course offerings through Chinook Learning Services, Continuing Education and found each one to be informative, personable, and well worth the time and money. We will continue to consider them for any future training purposes.

C. Lickiss
Standards and Accreditation Administrator
ACDS

Bennett Jones SLP

We have utilized Chinook Learning Services for many years now. We have specific in-house workshops we offer regularly such as Proofreading Perfected, facilitated by Joy Carlson. We have run other workshops, including management training, over the years, and have always been impressed by Chinook's client service, professionalism, responsiveness, and customization of their prescribed training to accommodate our specific needs. The value for our training dollars is very good. Thanks to Franca Best, Program Leader, the excellent instructors they work with, and everyone else at Chinook for their great service.

Pearl Loewen
Manager, Human Resources
Bennett Jones SLP

Bentall Kennedy

Good communication is critical. Therefore, effective business writing is a vital skill for our employees. In order to assist employees in developing their written communication skills, Bentall Kennedy in Calgary recently rolled out a ‘communication enhancement’ pilot program. The course content together with a comfortable learning environment made it possible for all staff, at every skill level, to acquire new information along with the opportunity to practice new skills. Class instructors engage with their students and encourage active participation. Anyone wanting to improve their business writing skills will benefit from these courses. Bentall Kennedy looks forward to working on new courses with Chinook Learning Services to facilitate its growing list of interested participants.

Alia Ashraf
Property Management Assistant
Bentall Kennedy

Calgary Board of Education

In 2012 Technology Support entered into a partnership with Chinook Learning Services to develop and deliver a customized leadership program to the extended leadership team designed to prepare them for future challenges in their work. Franca Best, Program Leader proposed an eleven course curriculum on par with any post-secondary institution program available in the Calgary area. The result has been the ability to meet or exceed our training requirements with far greater flexibility than other providers, and all at a fraction of the cost. Chinook Learning Services has been responsive to our training needs and partnered with us to align schedules and all elements of delivery with our logistical constraints. We have had numerous opportunities to validate that our team will come away from the Chinook Learning Service experience with a set of ‘best in class’ tools to meet the growing leadership needs of their role.

Shane Westcott
Manager, Technology Support
Calgary Board of Education

Dit’onik’odza Limited Partnership & Guja Nats’iyini’hi Board

The customer service workshop Chinook delivered was excellent and Drew Price did an amazing job! All of the feedback I received from the employees that were reluctant to attend was all very positive. The training was mandatory and many had worked the night before. Needless to say they were entertained and Drew did a great job. I will definitely call Chinook again for follow-up training in 6 months to reinforce the training that has occurred.

Tammy Whitney
Executive Director
Dit’onik’odza Limited Partnership & Guja Nats’iyini’hi Board

Vivo

All of us at Vivo were so impressed with our instructor Thabani. With a room full of students with varying experience, ages, and different areas of interest Thabani somehow made a course about Word and Excel fun and informative. So much so that staff were asking if they could take the Advanced level when we book it. Everyone took away a few nuggets of information and appreciated the printed ‘cheat sheet’ of functions to reference after the course was over. Overall the 2 day course was money and time well spent!

Alexis Apps
Manager, Corporate Services
Vivo