Company Overview

PGF provides management consulting services in organizational development, training and social policy research. Our services are available in both French and English.

Our organization has three distinct divisions that work in tandem to provide our clients with the ability to rely on us for interventions and services that capture the spectrum of their needs. They are Organizational Development & Learning; Public Policy Research and Development; and International.

The Organizational Development / Learning sector assists clients in the areas of institutional assessment and reinforcement, training and program evaluation. Key service areas include:

Training/Learning

Learning Needs Analysis - PGF's experienced designers and trainers can help determine what learning events your employees and managers need in order to grow with your organization. We will work with your HR representatives to establish a learning framework that will build commitment at all levels for a lifelong learning process.

Design and Delivery of Training Programs - PGF can design course content and group processes to encourage new attitudes, develop new skills and acquire new knowledge. We will help you to increase effectiveness and reduce costs by selecting appropriate formats, such as workshops, independent study, or distance learning.

Distance Learning and Multimedia Delivery - PGF can deliver specific training events or facilitate initiatives to address concerns at the individual, team or organizational level. The services we deliver are designed to meet the specific needs of each of our clients using a variety of methods and media.

Train the Trainers Coaching and Mentoring - PGF can evaluate your existing training programs and help you to develop the potential of all team members by training your in-house trainers and teaching your managers to become effective mentors and coaches.

Professional Skills Training Whether your organization wants to launch a new organization- wide initiative or encourage team members to explore their own professional development, PGF provides a wide selection of high-impact courses. Courses are available in a variety of formats ranging from facilitated workshops, independent study, distance learning, or through our regularly scheduled public offerings. Visit our website (http: //www. pgf. ca) for more information.

Organizational Development

Performance Feedback PGF uses a performance feedback system to assess:

• current effectiveness
• learning needs

Once your managers' and staff's strengths/weaknesses have been identified, we help them improve via individualized coaching sessions. Several of the associates are certified in BenchmarksTM, a 360 feedback instrument that is useful in evaluating performance and highlighting areas requiring further skill development.

Strategic Planning - Predicting the future has become more complex, if not impossible. This does not mean planning has become obsolete. Quite the contrary. It means that organizations must adopt a flexible strategic planning approach. PGF can assist you in your planning so that your managers and staff remain focused, while allowing you to modify your direction as circumstances dictate.

Organizational Redesign - The global environment forces organizations to adapt constantly. Carefully planning the changes your organization must implement is key to overcoming inevitable pockets of resistance and ensuring maximum buy-in.

Our people-oriented approach has made us the choice of organizations who want rational solutions that their people will support and promote.

Process Design and Facilitation - Do you have a specific challenge you'd like to address? Do you want to implement a new system, or way of doing things, but aren't sure how? PGF can help. We will listen to what you want to accomplish and then design and facilitate a process that will best achieve your goals. Some examples of our most recent interventions include:

• development and implementation of competency-based management

tools;

• specific problem-solving interventions;
• risk management;
• capacity building;

as well as many other interventions that could be of assistance to you

The Research and Development Sector assists their client organizations through credible and rigorous studies by offering key services that fall into the following categories.

Needs Assessment and Feasibility Studies - These research initiatives assist clients in evaluating their needs and in examining the feasibility of their projects. Through comparative research, business and strategic planning and consultative processes, PGF/GTA helps clients to respond to emerging needs more effectively. These assignments often include financial analysis, individual interviews and process facilitation.

Program and Project Evaluation - These assignments include formative and summative evaluations of programs and projects. Using quantitative and qualitative research methods -- including file and administrative data review, surveys, stakeholders interviews and focus groups.

Public Policy Analysis - These assignments involve rigorous research and analysis of internal and public policies. Such research supports policy reforms by helping clients identify key policy issues, by reviewing relevant literature and documents to inform a strategic analysis of policy options, and by providing necessary background information on anticipated impacts of the reform.

Socio-Economic Analysis - These assignments include studies of the social impact of economic development policies and programs as well as surveys of market trends.

Strategic Research These assignments include thematic research on specific issues of concern for the client and also comprise action research which assists organizations in better positioning themselves in relation to their members, to their clients or to the policy development process. As a result, strategic research helps clients clarify their mandate, come to a consensus on future projects, examine stakeholders' opinions, and ensure buy-in. These research projects often include literature reviews, individual interviews, focus groups, and process facilitation.

Community Capacity Building and Economic Development These initiatives actively involve clients, communities and stakeholders in researching and designing interventions that promote capacity building within local community organizations and sustainable local economic development. Such research and interventions are designed to support communities strategic positioning, the development of community organizations, the development of communities' economic infrastructure and the transfer of skills, and knowledge to community members.

The International Sector has developed working teams in learning, research and international development. The combined experience of our international team, which includes consulting staff and associates, encompasses language skills in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Hebrew, Yiddish.

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Legal Name: PGF Consultants Inc.

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