The Weston Consulting Group employees enjoy the company's focus on the balance and flexibility of work and flexibility.Delivered
Ryan Guetter joined the Weston Consulting Group as a junior planner in 2004 and has worked in his current role as President in Toronto's planning and urban design company in the past two decades. His ascent, he says, is thanks to a corporate culture that implements curiosity as a way to growth.
“It has always been a place where you can be curious, and that leads you into the area that you have never experienced and offers many opportunities to find ahead,” he says. “There is a conviction that there is nothing that cannot be solved with a little creativity and innovation, and this enables people to learn and grow incredibly quickly.”
Guetter notes that the collaboration with experts in real estate development, the city administration, the home building and the non -profit sector in Weston is an advantage. “Combating such a variety of customers as well as knowledge and expertise is unprecedented,” he says. “And it is enormous to develop into new business offers and community consultation on new business offers.”
With regard to professional development, Weston offers employees formal training opportunities via the provincial and national planner associations as well as their own training platform for professional development.
“We bring in external experts and also make internal headlights to learn practical skills such as public speaking, the art of delegation and coaching,” says Guetter. “There is something that all kinds of learning styles can do, from peer-to-peer about lectures, collaborative hiking tours and professional mentoring.”
Stephanie Dalmage, project accountant at Weston, estimates the openness of the company for employee inputs in his office in Toronto and Suburban Vaughan, ont.
“I love everyone has a voice,” she says. “I have the feeling that I can say what I have to say. We have a bookkeeping meeting every week, and the CEO and one of the VPS are present. We spend our opinion on the people who can do something about it. We also have council houses, team failures and events, so there are countless opportunities to ask questions and achieve results.” You just make it. “
Dalmage also appreciates the options for the work-life balance that she enjoys in Weston, including flexible hours and an account that can be spent on everything related to wellness. “We can work at home for a few days and in the office on other days, which I appreciate so much,” she says. “And we will advise about things like what is dealt with with our advantages. You listen to us and if it is possible you will do it.”
Guetter repeats the importance of flexibility. “All of our training sessions are offered practical and personally, and there is flexibility in working hours,” he says. “We try to honor people's time and give them appropriate flexibility, and they have reacted well because our productivity and efficiency remain very strong.”
According to Guetter, the company makes something special that it has managed to maintain its basic values, as has grown over the years. “It's a great model,” he says. “It is an opportunity to really take care of our employees and make sure that they have the work-life balance that they choose and at the same time enable the growth of a company development that focus on teamwork. It was exciting to be part of it.”
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