Module One: Introduction to Commercial Plant Production
Students will learn to identify the key differences in plant characteristics, receive an introduction to treatment techniques and Integrated Pest Management and the fundamentals of how to design and optimize the environment for commercial-scale cannabis production. In addition, students will study irrigation options and techniques; growing mediums and hydroponic systems; crop cycles; drying and storage procedures—all within the scope of Health Canada’s strict regulations.

Module Two: Introduction to Good Production Practices, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Health Canada’s Regulations
Students will study the foundational topics and concepts in Good Production Practices including sanitation, security, storage, labelling, destruction, Standard Operating Procedure design and implementation, and record keeping. Students will also examine the key concepts in Quality Management Systems, Quality Assurance and Quality Control, an introduction to the history of legal and regulatory changes, and the application process for becoming a micro or standard licensed producer.

Who should attend?

Those who would like to learn more about the Cannabis Industry, working in or operating a Cannabis facility.

What you will Learn

• Introduction to the Cannabis Plant
• Facility and Cultivation Design and Cultivation Inputs
• Pests and Disease
• Environmental Conditions and Monitoring
• Good Production Practices and Post Processing
• Security
• Quality Assurance, Quality Control & Quality Management System
• Regulations and Laws

Prerequisite:

None

Your Facilitator:

Mathew Columbro

Duration:

14 Weeks, Online

Location:

Online

Investment:

$ 1499.00 plus HST

Contact

Email Colleen Ringham cringham@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2497 for questions.

Warehousing operations are often plagued with extended lead times and unbalanced business process connections. This course covers lean principles that can help you reduce waste in your warehousing operations by as much as 25%, manage and reduce the flow of inventory, instill disciplined processes, and effectively use visual management.

Who Should Attend?

Executive through front-line team leaders responsible for working capital improvement, supply chain, logistics, materials, purchasing, production, warehousing, and transportation.

How you’ll Benefit?

• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Reduce inventory levels
• Reduce logistics costs
• Reduce space requirements
• Reduce lead time
• Increase fill rates
• Improve supplier performance and accountability
• Improve customer satisfaction and customer relationships
• Reduce overall organizational and operational waste

Duration:

2 Days

Location:

Loyalist College

Investment:

$1299 per module or $1129 each when booking all 3 at the same time

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

Warehousing operations are often plagued with extended lead times and unbalanced business process connections. This course covers lean principles that can help you reduce waste in your warehousing operations by as much as 25%, manage and reduce the flow of inventory, instill disciplined processes, and effectively use visual management.

Who Should Attend?

Executive through front-line team leaders responsible for working capital improvement, supply chain, logistics, materials, purchasing, production, warehousing, and transportation.

How you’ll Benefit?

• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Reduce inventory levels
• Reduce logistics costs
• Reduce space requirements
• Reduce lead time
• Increase fill rates
• Improve supplier performance and accountability
• Improve customer satisfaction and customer relationships
• Reduce overall organizational and operational waste

Duration:

2 Days

Location:

Loyalist College

Investment:

$1299 per module or $1129 each when booking all 3 at the same time

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

Managing individuals experiencing mental distress can be daunting tasks for supervisors. By participating in this session, participants will learn about the difference between mental health and mental illness, as well as the stigma that surrounds mental illness. Managers will become more confident in understanding a variety of mental illnesses, including their common symptoms and presentation. This course works to empower leadership through enhancing their effective communication skills, to support an employee experiencing mental distress.

Who should attend?

Managers, Supervisors, Leads  and Employees

What you’ll learn

Skills Developed in this Course

• Understanding the difference between sadness and clinical depression
• Recognizing the difference between healthy andunhealthy stress in another
• How to provide support to an employee experiencing imminent mental distress
• Supporting someone that may be experiencing psychosis
• Simple verbal-escalation strategies for supporting an agitated individual
• Where/how to direct an employee experiencing thoughts of suicide for help

Facilitator:

Jack Veitch, Manager of Community Engagement and Education with CMHA

Prerequisite: 

None

Duration: 

1 Day (9 am – 4 pm)

Investment: 

$ 269 plus HST (includes parking)

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

Managing individuals experiencing mental distress can be daunting tasks for supervisors. By participating in this session, participants will learn about the difference between mental health and mental illness, as well as the stigma that surrounds mental illness. Managers will become more confident in understanding a variety of mental illnesses, including their common symptoms and presentation. This course works to empower leadership through enhancing their effective communication skills, to support an employee experiencing mental distress.

Who should attend?

Managers, Supervisors, Leads  and Employees

What you’ll learn

Skills Developed in this Course

• Understanding the difference between sadness and clinical depression
• Recognizing the difference between healthy andunhealthy stress in another
• How to provide support to an employee experiencing imminent mental distress
• Supporting someone that may be experiencing psychosis
• Simple verbal-escalation strategies for supporting an agitated individual
• Where/how to direct an employee experiencing thoughts of suicide for help

Facilitator:

Jack Veitch, Manager of Community Engagement and Education with CMHA

Prerequisite: 

None

Duration: 

1 Day (9 am – 4 pm)

Investment: 

$ 269 plus HST (includes parking)

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

Transitioning to a high-performance culture.

3 A’s of Leadership – it’s all about your coaching skills.

How does a supervisor or manager lead individuals, teams, and departments towards higher involvement and higher quality? This question is raised by many who realize that theory cannot replace practical skills when it comes to leading people. The focus of this training is to go past theory and into practice. Participants will gain new insights on the use and misuse of authority and discover and apply practical ways to use organizational authority to lead individuals and teams to a new level of contribution.

Who should attend?

• All managers and promotable high-potential staff.
• Experienced front line supervisors
• New managers and front line supervisors
• Plant & manufacturing managers
• Team Leaders and Lead Hands
• Human Resources Managers and in-house trainers
• LEAN and continuous improvement champions

What you’ll learn

• About your personal natural approach to supervision
• About differing types of organizations and challenges posed to supervision
• Three skill sets that lead individuals and teams to more ownership of their work
• To read situations and discern behaviours needed to lead individuals and teams to greater ownership of their work
• To develop consistent coaching skills that apply to everyday work and settings
• To establish strategies that will lead teams and individuals to greater autonomy

Seminar Content

In this workshop-intensive seminar, which involves Climat-e, electronic simulation, participants will gain new insights into the use and misuse of authority. They will discover and apply practical ways to use organizational authority to lead individuals and teams to a higher level of
contribution. Who is the facilitator?

Benefits to individuals

• Provides practical coaching skills and improves communication
• Reduces conflicts and frustration and improves teamwork
• Increases self-commitment from their people

Benefits to organizations

• Increases organizational responsiveness to employees
• Drives fundamental change in a very practical way
• Maintains adaptability to changing needs

Facilitator:

Gary MacDonald brings 42 years of experience in non-profit leadership and is known for his ability to inspire and motivate clients to achieve excellence in their own work and enhance the performance of their organizations.

Gary is a dynamic facilitator with extensive proficiency developing communication and leadership competency skills with individuals and groups. His clients include leaders in government, business and the non-profit sector. In the fundraising arena, he coaches non-profits and their leadership in achieving higher levels of quality connectedness with their partners (donors), generating real results.

Prerequisite:

None

Duration:

2 Day (9am – 4pm)

Investment:

$ 899 plus HST, includes lunch and parking both days

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

Transitioning to a high-performance culture.

3 A’s of Leadership – it’s all about your coaching skills.

How does a supervisor or manager lead individuals, teams, and departments towards higher involvement and higher quality? This question is raised by many who realize that theory cannot replace practical skills when it comes to leading people. The focus of this training is to go past theory and into practice. Participants will gain new insights on the use and misuse of authority and discover and apply practical ways to use organizational authority to lead individuals and teams to a new level of contribution.

Who should attend?

• All managers and promotable high-potential staff.
• Experienced front line supervisors
• New managers and front line supervisors
• Plant & manufacturing managers
• Team Leaders and Lead Hands
• Human Resources Managers and in-house trainers
• LEAN and continuous improvement champions

What you’ll learn

• About your personal natural approach to supervision
• About differing types of organizations and challenges posed to supervision
• Three skill sets that lead individuals and teams to more ownership of their work
• To read situations and discern behaviours needed to lead individuals and teams to greater ownership of their work
• To develop consistent coaching skills that apply to everyday work and settings
• To establish strategies that will lead teams and individuals to greater autonomy

Seminar Content

In this workshop-intensive seminar, which involves Climat-e, electronic simulation, participants will gain new insights into the use and misuse of authority. They will discover and apply practical ways to use organizational authority to lead individuals and teams to a higher level of
contribution. Who is the facilitator?

Benefits to individuals

• Provides practical coaching skills and improves communication
• Reduces conflicts and frustration and improves teamwork
• Increases self-commitment from their people

Benefits to organizations

• Increases organizational responsiveness to employees
• Drives fundamental change in a very practical way
• Maintains adaptability to changing needs

Facilitator:

Gary MacDonald brings 42 years of experience in non-profit leadership and is known for his ability to inspire and motivate clients to achieve excellence in their own work and enhance the performance of their organizations.

Gary is a dynamic facilitator with extensive proficiency developing communication and leadership competency skills with individuals and groups. His clients include leaders in government, business and the non-profit sector. In the fundraising arena, he coaches non-profits and their leadership in achieving higher levels of quality connectedness with their partners (donors), generating real results.

Prerequisite:

None

Duration:

2 Day (9am – 4pm)

Investment:

$ 899 plus HST, includes lunch and parking both days

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

In this first course, you will be introduced to lean thinking, principles, and critical lean supply chain concepts. By gaining applicable tools and valuable skills that allow you to identify and eliminate waste at the root cause, you can formally solve real business problems in the supply chain and improve cost, quality, service, and delivery.

Who Should Attend?

Executive through front-line team leaders responsible for working capital improvement, supply chain, logistics, materials, purchasing, production, warehousing, and transportation.

How you’ll Benefit?

• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Reduce inventory levels
• Reduce logistics costs
• Reduce space requirements
• Reduce lead time
• Increase fill rates
• Improve supplier performance and accountability
• Improve customer satisfaction and customer relationships
• Reduce overall organizational and operational waste

Duration:

2 Days

Location:

Loyalist College

Cost:

$1299 per module or $1129 when booking all 3 at the same time

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

Gain the Skills You Need to Transform Your Supply Chain and Realize Game-Changing Results

This professional education program prepares supply chain leaders to advance their lean knowledge and increase supply chain efficiencies that produce game-changing results for their organizations.

Who Should Attend?

Executive through manager-level leaders responsible for working capital improvement, supply chain, logistics, materials, purchasing, production, warehousing, and transportation.

How Will I Benefit From This Program?

• Increase fill rates
• Improve customer satisfaction and
customer relationships
• Reduce overall organizational and
operational waste
• Reduce logistics costs
• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Reduce inventory levels
• Reduce space requirements
• Reduce lead time
• Improve supplier performance and
accountability

What Does This Program Include?

• Hands-on, Interactive Exercises and Hand-outs from industry Experts
• Breakfast, Lunch and Refreshments
• Copies of the Books: 1) Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade, 2) Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream, and 3) PEOPLE: a leader’s day to day guide to building, managing, and sustaining lean organizations
• Official LeanCor Training & Education Certificate (Upon Completion of All Three Courses)

3 Course Series

Lean Supply Chain
Lean Warehousing
Lean Material Flow

Who’s Facilitating? Lean Cor

Duration: 6 Days

Location: Loyalist College

Cost:

$1299 per module or $1129 when booking all 3 at the same time

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.

Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, at least one worker member and one management member of a joint health and safety committee (JHSC) are required to take a provincial Chief Prevention Office-approved two-part training program (the first certification training component must be completed before taking this course). To be fully certified part two training must be completed within six months of completing part one.

This course provides hazard-specific offices sector training that gives learners the knowledge and skills to recognize, assess and control hazards in their workplace and to evaluate hazard controls.

Who should attend?

Intended for workers, supervisors, joint health and safety committee members, health and safety representatives.

What you’ll learn

Each section of the course reviews a significant hazard in office environment. These include:

• musculoskeletal disorders (MSD)
• motor vehicle incidents
• workplace violence and harassment
• exposure to hazardous substances
• unsafe material handling
• working at heights.

Facilitator:

Jerry Traer, Workplace Safety North

Prerequisite: 

Must hold a valid level 1 Health & Safety Training Certificate

Duration: 

2 Day (9 am – 4 pm)

Investment: 

$ 399 plus HST (includes parking)

Contact:

Email Melanie Roy mroy@loyalistcollege.com or call 613-969-1913 Ext 2480 for questions.