For Employers - The Momentum Centre Inc.

Employers

Supporting youth in developing and enhancing their long-term employability skills, occupational functioning and emotional resilience through comprehensive professional development and wrap-around supports, resiliency coaching, and quality paid work experience that leads to meaningful, ongoing employment.

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For employer partners

The Momentum Centre’s (TMC) Leadership and Professional Development curriculum offers participants the opportunity to translate their knowledge and experience to meet the needs of Manitoba workplaces.

TMC’s successful mixed model of combining cutting-edge professional development with paid work experience means that participants are learning hands-on and gaining weekly training, mentoring, and coaching they can immediately apply in the workplace.

A leader in economic and workforce development, TMC provides a valuable human resource function for employers by:

Providing motivated individuals who may already have skills in your area.
Offering a risk-free way to hire, using the work experience portion of the program to see the participant's skills and attitudes in action before hiring...and their training time is covered by The Momentum Centre.
Delivering weekly access to cutting-edge professional development for your participant to successfully navigate the world of work, providing cost savings in the thousands by offering this training for your participant at zero cost to you.
Supplying additional behind the scenes one on one resiliency coaching and support to participants throughout the program.
Maintaining a regular schedule of contact and support with you, tracking participants’ progress, addressing areas that require attention and gathering information for professional development training and coaching needs

TMC Trainers challenge participants to build on their prior knowledge and polish their professional skills further by delivering intensive hands-on, leading-edge training in the following areas:

Analyzing and adapting to various workplace cultures
Professional conduct/group facilitation skills
Effective communication skills, including paraphrasing, summarizing and purpose stating
Strategies for transforming conflict
Diversity awareness and cross-cultural competency building
Stress reduction/resiliency building and self-management skills

You can expect to see participants practicing sharpening their observational skills, experimenting with new ways of listening and speaking, and taking the initiative to explore their role and offer their best work.

What is The Momentum Centre looking for in a cooperating workplace (CW)?

How does the program work?

We partner with workplaces that participants identify as organizations that they are interested in working in.
We prepare participants to enter the workplace by completing a pre-employment seminar that actively introduces them to all 5 key skill-building areas of the professional development curriculum through group-based employability skills training.
We set up work placements where our participants join you for 3.5 days a week on 7.5 hours/day shifts.
Every week participants return to the centre for 1.5 days of extensive leadership, initiative taking, and professional development training, learning hands-on and gaining weekly training, mentoring, and coaching they can immediately apply in your workplace.

Is there a lot of admin work to do?

Surprisingly no, there’s very little.

We can either 1) pay participants directly or 2) you can, and we’ll reimburse you according to your payroll requirements. All that’s needed for this is a weekly timesheet.
We prepare a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement between TMC, participants and the cooperating workplace that gets signed at the start of the work experience.
We conduct a mid-program performance review halfway through the program with the participant and cooperating workplace supervisor, which participants prepare for during professional development training.
Our program staff perform regular check-ins to track participants’ progress, address anything that may require attention and gather information for professional development training and performance coaching needs.