SERVICES
Some of our Clients that have used these services:
The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC)
The Petroleum Human Resources Association of Canada
Lethbridge College
Bow Valley College
Mount Royal University
Southern Alberta Institute of Alberta
The City of Calgary: Water Services - Construction Services
The City of Calgary: Water Resources - Learning & Employee Development
The City of Calgary: Seniors' Services
Petro Canada
Roger Soucy
President
Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC)
"Standing Stones was instrumental in aiding our industry develop occupational standards [over 30 occupations].
Their knowledge of competencies and ability to work with all levels of industry representatives led to an effective, efficient, and successful process."
Dr. Sharon Carry
President/CEO
Bow Valley College
“... Standing Stones completed a report on Business Models for Distributed Learning that has become the foundation of further action by the colleges and technical institutes in the province.
Standing Stones also assisted Bow Valley College in the development of its business plan for e-Learning.“
Learning & Development
that strengthens employees.
Based on our world-leading expertise and deep experience, we work with your team to research, design and build learning and development programs, courses and competencies.
Sample Projects
National Petroleum Competencies & Assessment: Facilitated the creation of 30+ Occupation Profiles for Oil and Gas including technical, supervisory and leadership competencies - in areas such as snubbing services, oil field transportation, and well testing. Developed competency assessment tools and procedures. Evaluated National Competency Program and created a National Standards Management Plan.
Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada, Petroleum Services Association of Canada, ENFORM
National & Corporate Competency Models and Frameworks: Researched, designed, and revised technical and professional competency models and systems.
The City of Calgary - Water Resources, The City of Calgary Seniors Services, The Canadian Tourism Human Resources Council
Adult Learning Guide: Researched, designed, and wrote a guide to teaching and learning for adults in a corporate setting.
PetroCanada
Passing on Deep Smarts to the Next Generation of Workers - Utility Technical Expertise Knowledge Transfer: WATS 400 | An Introduction to the Design and Operation of Calgary’s Water Distribution System: We worked with engineers, plant and field operators to design innovative learning to encourage experts to pass on deep smarts about the design and operation of Calgary’s multi-billion dollar Water Utility (physical and chemical processes). Co-facilitated five courses to Water Production & Distribution Operators, Supervisors and Senior Managers (~100 employees) in collaboration with three international subject-matter experts.
The City of Calgary: Water Resources
Next Generation Workplace Learning Research & Software Prototype - Self-funded project with IRAP support conducted with the Alberta Research Council: Conducted a year-long research project on software supported workplace learning - specifically tools to aid software development teams facilitate user sessions better - and capture lessons learned for software development. Designed the data and interaction models used to develop a working prototype.
Standing Stones Consulting, Alberta Research Council
Course, Program and Instructional Design & Revision: We have analyzed needs, designed and developed learning programs from modules, to courses and programs.
The City of Calgary, ENFORM, Mount Royal University, SAIT Polytechnic, Lakeland College, Bow Valley College etc.
Client Employee & Faculty Development Workshops & Orientations: We facilitate learning workshops for employees engaged in learning and development activities. Sample workshops include • Using Learning Management Systems, • Instructional Design Strategies, • Writing Learning Modules, • Using Audio-Conferencing, • etc.
Multiple clients
Instructional Design & Development for Interactive Learning Objects and eLearning/Flexible Courses (including mentoring faculty) with clients based on detailed needs assessments.
Mount Royal University, SAIT Polytechnic, Alberta Fire Training School, Lakeland College
When to use these services
Retiring Expertise: Your Experts are retiring - you need to capture and connect their experience
Speed & Quality: You need new employees trained faster and more deeply
Dated Content: Your programs are in need of being updated - content, methods or resources
Challenging Business & Work Environments: Employees work in complex jobs with regulation, multiple processes, multiple teams or departments, or cognitive work
Increased Value: You need to make sure learning dollars are adding value to business
Our Process
What we do
Learning Strategy
● Corporate Strategy
● E-Learning, Flexible Learning
● Process Maps, Standards & Templates
● Learning Governance Strategies
Training Needs Analysis
● Workshop to Capture Annual Needs
● Analysis for New Systems/Equipment
● Subject Matter Expert Facilitation
Capture of Retiring Knowledge
● Cognitive & Task Work Analysis
● Subject Matter Expert Facilitation
● PathMap for Transferring Knowledge
● Social Learning for Deep Smarts Transfer
Competencies & Assessment
● Project Management
● Subject Matter Expert Facilitation
● Design of Strategic Competencies
● Design of Assesment Toools/Processes
● Implementation Plans
Learning Design
● Program Design
● Course Design
● Instructional Design
● Classroom, e-Learning, Field Learning
● Multi-Methods: e.g. Experiential, Scenarios
Evaluation of Programs
● Program Self-Assessment Workshops
● Program Content & Method Reviews
● Multi-Stakeholder Review Facilitation