Mac Roberts & Associates

Enhancing Strategic, Leadership and Operational Processes

Services We Offer

We provide consulting, education, facilitation & support services in many areas including union-management relations, occupational health and safety, organizational effectiveness, process improvement, quality management, strategic planning, cultural change and human resources management. Our offerings include:

Interest Based Barganing & Beyond - Joint Ventures in Continuous Improvement for Union and Management

Targeting Zero Together - Pursuing excellence in occupational health & safety

Continuous Improvement Culture - Everyone focused on adding more value and eliminating waste

High Performance-High Integrity Leaders & Teams - Developing, engaging & aligning the full potential of leaders & teams

Through our unique offerings we help clients apply a "Joint Venture" approach to all phases of their change effort: initiation, implementation, maintenance and ongoing improvement. We take a very practical and principled approach to the complex area of personal and organizational change. Our work is based on personal experience combined with systems thinking frameworks that help clients:

  • Gain new perspectives on familiar issues & opportunities and then apply those perspectives in their particular circumstances
  • Achieve the changes in capability and performance necessary to their continued growth and success.
  • Ensure the most cost effective, value-added support for your change effort by utilizing internal resources, our extended client network and our own expertise and experience


 Interest Based Bargaining & Beyond  

 Joint Ventures in Continuous Improvement for Union & Management

Are union-management relations in your organization a source of frustration or a vehicle for constructive change?

We will help you:

  • Improve the outcomes of negotiations, grievance resolution and all other union–management interactions for all stakeholders.
  • Work collaboratively without compromising the strength or the integrity of either union or management.
  • Build relationships that will allow expanded opportunities to work together for the benefit of people and the business.

Services we provide include:

  • Labour Relations Culture Change
  • Facilitated Interest Based Bargaining
  • Strategic Planning For Unions
  • ADR / Mediation
  • Human rights & harassment training & dispute resolution
  • Joint committee commissioning, facilitation & development

         


 Targeting Zero Together

 Pursuing Excellence In Occupational Health & Safety

Is your organizations’ Health & Safety performance World Class?

We will help you:

  • Improve your organization’s safety culture and establish safety as a priority for managers and employees.
  • Enable employees to go home each day as safe and healthy as they arrived at the beginning of the day.
  • Reduce your health & safety related costs.
  • Improve your organization’s effectiveness & image.

Services we offer include:

  • Facilitating a joint process that will lead to vastly improved performance and engage your people in pursuing excellence in health & safety.
  • Helping you implement safety management systems and processes which can be used as a model for managing performance in other key result areas.
  • Provide training on topics including legislative requirements ( i.e. Bill C45), safety management tools, systems & processes.
  • ISO 9001/14001 and OH&S 18001 implementation.

         


 Continuous Improvement Culture 

   Everyone Focused on Adding More Value & Eliminating Waste   

Does your organization have the agility and responsiveness needed to remain healthy, viable and competitive?

We will help you enhance your organization’s ability to:

  • Develop and implement internationally recognized quality and delivery systems to continually improve your competitive position
  • Increase customer satisfaction, quality, delivery and profitability while reducing costs a waste across the organization
  • Build a culture of commitment & accountability for continuous improvement

We offer training, consulting and coaching in:

  • Quality, Customer Satisfaction & Service Quality Management
  • ISO 9001/14001 and OH&S 18001 implementation
  • "Lean Not Mean" production/service systems development
  • Continuous process improvement tools and strategies

         


 High Performance - High Integrity Leaders & Teams

 Developing, Engaging & Aligning the Full Potential of Leaders & Teams

Are people in your organization ready, willing and able to collaborate and contribute to the best of their ability?

We can help you build effective individuals & teams who are:

  • Aligned with respect to purpose, goals, principles & priorities
  • Inspired, enthusiastic, empowered stakeholders
  • Seeing possibilities and looking for opportunities
  • Persistent & resilient in the face of obstacles
  • Collaborative, supportive and mutually respectful

We will help you improve effectiveness through:

  • Assessment & planning organizational change
  • Leadership development workshops
  • Team development workshops
  • Facilitating the evolution to self-sustaining teams
  • Designing & facilitating meetings & group processes
  • Coaching of individuals & teams