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Course Description
Effective Management – Online (Semester 1)
Course Completion Deadline
This is a Semester 1 course, it must be completed by April 30th, 2024. Failure to complete the course by this date will result in the loss of all course progress and may be subject to additional re-registration fees.
Course Schedule
This is a self-paced online course. Participants will work through each module individually at their own speed. You will have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week so you can learn when and where you want.
The course, activities, and tests take approx. 20 hrs to complete. You will have access to the course until the end of April.
Lesson content is presented as text and videos. There are also interactive activities. There is no interaction with a live instructor. You can contact the instructors by email if you have any questions.
Particpants will receive an enrollment email within 48 hrs of registering. Please check your junk mail if you do not see it. If this is your first online course with good roads, you will also get a new user email. Please use the link in the new user email to set your password.
Note: Online courses take place on our education website not our main website. The websites do not share the same usernames and passwords.
Course Description
This course was designed to prepare you for a role in management and will look at many aspects of being a manager. Our hope is that this material will provide you with a foundation to build on as you proceed in your career in management.
Course Content
- Fundamentals of Management
- Effective Communication
- Emotional Intelligence
- Managing the Intergenerational Workforce
- Performance Management
- Organizational Structure & Culture
- Conflict Management
- Work and Personal Life Balance
- Working in Teams
Who Should Attend?
Municipal supervisors and managers, and future supervisors.
Evaluation Process
There are 9 modules in this course. You will have an assessment after module 3, 6, and 9. Each assessment is worth 33% of the final grade. A final grade of 65% or higher is required to pass this course.
Accreditation
This course is recognized by:
- This course or Managing Human Resources is a mandatory requirement for the Association of Ontario Road Supervisors (AORS) Certified Road Supervisors – Intermediate level (CRS-I) certification program.
- This course may be used for the technical specialist program only. Point Value = 5
- The Engineering Institute of Canada awards 2 Continuing Education Units to this course.
Effective Management – Online (Semester 2)
Course Schedule
This is a self-paced online course. Participants will work through each module individually at their own speed. You will have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week so you can learn when and where you want.
The course, activities, and tests take approx. 15 – 20 hrs to complete. You will have access to the course until the end of August.
Lesson content is presented as text and videos. There are also interactive activities. There is no interaction with a live instructor. You can contact the instructors by email if you have any questions.
Participants will receive an enrollment email within 48 hrs of registering. Please check your junk mail if you do not see it. If this is your first online course with good roads, you will also get a new user email. Please use the link in the new user email to set your password.
Note: Online courses take place on our education website not our main website. The websites do not share the same usernames and passwords.
Course Description
This course was designed to prepare you for a role in management and will look at many aspects of being a manager. Our hope is that this material will provide you with a foundation to build on as you proceed in your career in management.
Course Content
- Fundamentals of Management
- Effective Communication
- Emotional Intelligence
- Managing the Intergenerational Workforce
- Performance Management
- Organizational Structure & Culture
- Conflict Management
- Work and Personal Life Balance
- Working in Teams
Who Should Attend?
Municipal supervisors and managers, and future supervisors.
Evaluation Process
There are 9 modules in this course. You will have an assessment after module 3, 6, and 9. Each assessment is worth 33% of the final grade. A final grade of 65% or higher is required to pass this course.
Accreditation
This course is recognized by:
- This course or Managing Human Resources is a mandatory requirement for the Association of Ontario Road Supervisors (AORS) Certified Road Supervisors – Intermediate level (CRS-I) certification program.
- This course may be used for the technical specialist program only. Point Value = 5
- The Engineering Institute of Canada awards 2 Continuing Education Units to this course.
Effective Management – Online (Semester 3)
Signs & Lines – Online (Semester 1)
Course Completion Deadline
This is a Semester 1 course, it must be completed by April 30th, 2024. Failure to complete the course by this date will result in the loss of all course progress and may be subject to additional re-registration fees.
Course Schedule
This is a self-paced online course. Participants will work through each module individually at their own speed. You will have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week so you can learn when and where you want.
The course, activities, and tests take approx. 20 hrs to complete. You will have access to the course until the end of April.
Lesson content is presented as text and videos. There are also interactive activities. There is no interaction with a live instructor. You can contact the instructors by email if you have any questions.
Participants will receive an enrollment email within 48 hrs of registering. Please check your junk mail if you do not see it. If this is your first online course with good roads, you will also get a new user email. Please use the link in the new user email to set your password.
Note: Online courses take place on our education website not our main website. The websites do not share the same usernames and passwords.
Course Description
Offers practical experience in using Ontario Traffic Manuals 5, 6 & 11. You will learn, through participation in group activities how signs and lines assist drivers as they travel from their point of origin to their destination. You will return to your municipality with an understanding of how these manuals work together plus a list of best practices to help minimize risk and defend the municipality in an insurance claim.
Course Content
- Principles of Positive Guidance
- Influencing driver safety
- Sign manufacturing & Three Speed Triangle
- Best practices for ordering road signs
- MMS Requirements for Signs
- Retroreflectivity & Reflective Sheeting
- Sign Management Program
- Regulatory Signs (OTM 5)
- Warning Signs (OTM 6)
- Pavement, Hazard and Delineation Markings (OTM 11)
- Collision investigations
Who Should Attend?
Decision makers and individuals responsible for the selection and placement of regulatory signs, warning signs, and the pavement, hazard and delineation markings.
Signs & Lines – Online (Semester 2)
Course Schedule
This is a self-paced online course. Participants will work through each module individually at their own speed. You will have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week so you can learn when and where you want.
The course, activities, and tests take approx. 20 hrs to complete. You will have access to the course until the end of April.
Lesson content is presented as text and videos. There are also interactive activities. There is no interaction with a live instructor. You can contact the instructors by email if you have any questions.
Participants will receive an enrollment email within 48 hrs of registering. Please check your junk mail if you do not see it. If this is your first online course with good roads, you will also get a new user email. Please use the link in the new user email to set your password.
Note: Online courses take place on our education website not our main website. The websites do not share the same usernames and passwords.
Course Description
Offers practical experience in using Ontario Traffic Manuals 5, 6 & 11. You will learn, through participation in group activities how signs and lines assist drivers as they travel from their point of origin to their destination. You will return to your municipality with an understanding of how these manuals work together plus a list of best practices to help minimize risk and defend the municipality in an insurance claim.
Course Content
- Principles of Positive Guidance
- Influencing driver safety
- Sign manufacturing & Three Speed Triangle
- Best practices for ordering road signs
- MMS Requirements for Signs
- Retroreflectivity & Reflective Sheeting
- Sign Management Program
- Regulatory Signs (OTM 5)
- Warning Signs (OTM 6)
- Pavement, Hazard and Delineation Markings (OTM 11)
- Collision investigations
Who Should Attend?
Decision makers and individuals responsible for the selection and placement of regulatory signs, warning signs, and the pavement, hazard and delineation markings.
Signs & Lines – Online (Semester 3)
Roundabouts: From Idea to Implementation
Workshop Content:
Planning and Feasibility
- Policy Issues
- Roundabout screening
- Intersection control
- Accessibility issues
- Planning Guidance
- Feasibility problems
- Feasibility clinic and case studies
- Questions and discussion
Preliminary Design
- Capacity and safety theory
- Design guidance
- Design principles
- Design checks
- Cost sharing, utilities, property requirements
- Design problems
- Questions and discussion
Implementation
- Detailed design
- Designing for expansion
- Designing for maintenance and service vehicles
- Construction staging
- Landscaping and illumination
- Pavement markings and signs
- Educating the public
- Questions and discussion
Note: Participants are encouraged to bring a roundabout proposal review.
Who Should Attend:
Municipal and Consulting Engineers, technicians and technologists, planners, and project managers.
Managing Winter Operations Workshop
Be prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws at your municipality this winter season with this one-day intensive workshop.
Managing Operations is designed for winter road maintenance professionals, from managers, supervisors to operators and transportation professionals.
Hear from experts in the field covering a wide variety of winter road maintenance issues from communicating your message, technology, MMS, safety, legal obligations, salt management, hiring and retaining talent to dealing with operator harassment.
This one-day workshop includes an exhibitor hall and networking time to discuss winter road issues with fellow industry experts.
Join like-minded individuals all under one roof discussing best practices and new ideas in protecting yourself, your team, and your municipality during the winter road clearing season.
Creating Levels of Service & Standard Operating Procedures
Course Description
This course is designed to illustrate the necessity to create and maintain accurate and current records with goals and targets of roadway maintenance standards together with documentation to mitigate municipal risk arising from perceived hazardous road conditions within the municipalities’ road allowances. This course specifically will emphasize the need to produce and retain an appropriate Levels of Service document with a supplementary Standard Operating Procedures document.
Learning objectives / Course goals:
- Recognize and Define the influence that Risk Management/Record-Keeping and Asset Management impose on Levels of Service and Standard Operating Procedures
- Interpret the role of an effective LOS and SOP within a municipality
- Develop a practicable LOS and SOP balancing Risk Analysis, Asset Management and Best Practices
- Examine the process required to create a LOS and SOP
- Propose and produce a sustainable validated LOS and SOP
Required Texts, Materials, or Equipment
- Participation in a Good Roads course with some basic knowledge of municipal risk mitigation
- Participants should attend with an understanding of road maintenance equipment and road classifications/priorities
Major Assignments: Descriptions
Participants will be required to, by course completion provide the instructor with a brief example (Paper) of a LOS or SOP paper plus completion of the course exam.
Class Participation
Participants will be encouraged in an open forum to discuss their challenges and the positives of working with LOS and SOP documents.
Course Grading
Explanation of Grading System
- Exam : 75 % of total grade (Approximately 20 questions)
- Paper : 25 % of total grade (Practical of creating a LOS or SOP)
An overall grade of 65% is required to pass