Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press b4 Philip 6977017 business May Trust building tool helps tear Down barriers of culture Board game a Winner by Martin Cash business reporter when Anne Harman returned to Vancouver five years ago after living and working in South Africa for Many she noticed a significant change in the cultural diversity of the she had run a human resource consulting business in South Africa and had done training and development consulting in her Industrial relations work she had plenty of occasions to engage in conflict often involving racial tension Between Blacks and sometimes she used a Board game developed by a South african associate that functioned As a Trust building after id returned to Vancouver i thought about the game and i went Back to South Africa to talk to its Harman said in Winnipeg this week where the federation of human resource development associations of Canada awarded her called know one of its awards of partnership it turned out the author was planning to move to they formed a partnership two years ago and have been marketing know me for More than a the game has been redesigned and reconfigured from the South african it was one of five winners of had Canada awards of excellence announced at a conference in Winnipeg in association with the Manitoba society for training and development know me is a tool to help people Marc Gallant Winnipeg free press Harman adapted game from South african version after returning to work As without divisions of culture or the Challenge inherent in that Type of Trust building exercise is another example of just How hard a Job the human resource development profession has ahead of it in the North american corporate culture of Susan a Regina human resource development consultant and the president of the federation of human resource development associations of we have to look at our jobs in a different the National federation and the is member std held an annual training session in Winnipeg recently As Well As announcing the awards of Nedan said the Industry is focusing on three issues coming up with innovative interpretations of the work that people now and recognizing the incredible change that is taking place in the workplace making sure there is an Impact element in the training being done to help assimilate the massive amount of change taking place in the workplace helping people become learners so that they can better sort out the new issues and find the right the reality the workplace is in Nedan the people in the human resource development business face All kinds of stress and As a profession we have to look at our jobs in a different introducing the difference Between running a network and having a network run ask people whal they want in a id server and everybody Uztin same Liling Sun tiling l make life so Here they Are lie new line of id along the my for Small lans Ami Llie or Enterprise we introduce the cum id server 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months do not a year the general expectation is that there will be a reasonable pickup in Canada and the United states in the late Martin found the Bright Side in an other spate of bad news that indicated the Economy slowed dramatically in the first half of a five week decline in interest rates stalled As the Bank of Canada raised its key Bank rate to per cent from per statistics Canada suggested the Economy is slowing As growth in its composite leading key economic statistic fell to per cent in april from per cent in resales of Homes dropped drastically in april Down per cent from a year the Economy showed More signs of Martin said the economies of both Canada and the United states had been growing too fast last year to continue without creating a danger Ous spiral of inflation that could have induced a Canadas Economy surged ahead at a per cent annual Pace in the last three months of i think it is very Clear that our re covery has been largely Export led and the Economy is slowing Down toward the fabled soft land tenders tender on offset press sealed tenders will be received at the office of the the Winnipeg school division Wall Street r3e up to june for the Supply of one offset for form of tender and apply to the director of purchasing and admin the Winnipeg school division the lowest or any tender will not necessarily be Secretary treasurer the Winnipeg school division 1 notice of tender separate sealed tenders will be received by maintenance Engineer Box Industrial Road Dauphin my r7n 3b3 6222263 up to on May 1995 for the following week construction order xim033 Brush spraying various roads Short Dale Dauphin area Brush spraying 125 a of Highway tender forms May be obtained at the above the lowest or any tender May not necessarily be Glen Findlay minister Viliman tender knew housing requires separate bids for fencing 4 landscaping doors eave troughs plans and specifications May be obtained from Lawrence Poirier knew housing 201424 Logan Avenue Manitoba r3aor4 2049565093 upon receipt of a certified Cheque for the Cheque will be refunded when All documents Are returned in Good order after tender is closed bids will be received up until pin Winni Peg june 1995 native contractors or contractors with a demonstrated history of luring native employees will receive the lowest or any bids will not necessarily be Martin said outside the com if that is the Case then what we Are going to have is a Long period of sustained growth and i think that what everybody the Central called the Federal Reserve has been trying to Engineer a slowdown in the Economy that will prevent inflation from getting out of the trick is to keep interest rates High for Long without plunging All of North Amer Ica into a More signs of a Cooling econ omy emerged single family Home construction declined for the fourth month in Row and Industrial output fell to its Low est level in nine Martin said Canadas dependent on exports to the United has been slowing in As Long As the Economy keeps roil Canada will eventually become less dependent on Bank rate 909t92939495 a May source Bank of Canada c tenders separate sealed tenders will be received at the office of the the Winnipeg school division 1577 Wall Street r3e up to june for the Supply of the to be delivered on an As and when required basis to schools under the jurisdiction of the ten metropolitan school 1 building maintenance equipment 2 grounds keeping equipment for form of tender and apply to the director of purchasing and admin the Winnipeg school division the lowest or any tender will not necessarily be Secretary treasurer the Winnipeg school division 1 Manitoba highways and transportation notice of tenders separate sealed tenders will be received at the tenders credit Union Central 16th floor215 Garry Manitoba r3c 3z1 on the specified up to noon prevailing Winnipeg for the following work May tender 4540 Grade widening bituminous pavement 16 21 of pit 354 the length of the project is the work involves 181000m of 2340001 of truck hauled borrow excava 700001 of granular base course 57001 of bituminous May tender 4541 depositing stockpiling aggregate Russell Hamiota Strathclair the work involves 44 094 i of May tender 4542 installing underground traffic signal Plant various locations in Manitoba the work involves installing 2735 m of 38 Concrete 1400m of Detector loops and i Cable splice pits this ii reject is funded under the Canada Manitoba strategic Highway improvement program May tender 4543 overhead sign structures of poll Portage interchange the work involves the rehabilitation of 4 overhead and 2 cantilever sign tenders will be publicly opened on unspecified Day and read in the Board 16th 215 Garry commencing ill noun earn Lender must be accompanied by a fully executed Bond in the amount of ten per cent of the tender Price expressed As a percentage and written on the department s or on a form Satis factory to the minister a certified Cheque will not be accepted in lieu Ofa bid each Lender May be at the above upon payment of the my refundable sum of which includes 7li the lowest or any Lender May not necessarily be Ulen minister ;