Teams

Apprenticeship Applications
are available
through the
HR department

Importance of Teams

"Creating self-managed teams requires transformative, perhaps revolutionary, thinking, and it will, in most environments, require at least some management reform. Before a self-managed team can be created, a manager must see the team not as it is but rather as it could be." (Weis, 1999, p. 95).

Our company believes in making this transformation a reality.

• Apprentices will be part of learning teams guided by experienced mentor. At least two learning teams, consisting of 4 to 8 learners each, are simultaneously active within the company to increase opportunities for social construction of learning.
  
  
• Mentors are current company team leaders and project managers. They have been mentored by outside practitioners in team development and Appreciative Inquiry methods, recognized by the company and their associates as outstanding team leaders or project managers, and have volunteered as mentors.

Apprentices

• Apprentices have been employed with the company for at least three years, and have been identified as being high potential performers on their individual performance reviews. Consequently, the a apprentices have applied for or have been nominated by their manager to participate in this learning opportunity.
  
  
• Apprentices hold at least a Bachelor's degree related to their fields (i.e., education, business, human resource development, psychology, instructional design, graphic design, and computer science).
  
  
• Apprentices demonstrate effective communication (oral, written, presentation), team work, project planning, collaboration, and time management skills; knowledge of the company's policies and procedures; comfort with computers and Internet browsing, and knowledge of Microsoft Office software; and a motivation to learn. Prior experience in an online learning environment is not a requirement for participation.