CONGRATULATIONS to the RCPEM, new corporate member

17 comments

Congratulations! The daycare system in Le Bel Province are a model admired and envied by several countries! Long life to RCPEM and Sound Management!

Don Casey
Daycares for All

Abbelone,

Unfortunately, there is not an Institute of Sound Management in Denmark for now. However, as Sound Management is applicable to any type of business in any country, one day, if there is enough interest, chapters of the Institute of Sound Management can open in Denmark and many other countries.

Thanks for your kind words; I will make sure the RCPEM reads them.

Regards,

Philippe Bruno, C.Adm.
Member of the Consultative Committee
Institute of Sound Management

All the best from Benoni, South Africa!

Interested to know more about sound management in early childhood settings, particularly in the classroom. Any downloadable pamphlet?

Steven, Early Childhood Teacher

Steven,

We do not have a specific pamphlet for the early childhood field, but we do have free PDF documents about the Sound Management concept that you can download from our References page.

Regards,

Philippe Bruno, C.Adm.
Member of the Consultative Committee
Institute of Sound Management

Bravo au RCPEM! Belle initiative à être imitée par tous les autres regroupements!

Congrats from a childcare center supervisor of British Columbia! We do not have such a beautifully organized and supported system here, but we always look forward to transferring some of the best things you guys in Quebec come up with in the field. Seems to me that “Sound Management” is your next landmark!!! Thanks for reporting back on your implementation progress!!!

Sincerely,
Carole

Bonjour,

Je suis éducatrice dans un CPE qui a implanté la saine gestion et je peux confirmer que c’est une expérience très positive. Maintenant, les relations sont moins tendues et plus harmonieuses. Je pense aussi que la communication (transparence) entre les éducatrices et la DG s’est améliorer de beaucoup. Même si certaines d’entre nous avaient peur au début, nous ne le regrettons pas aujourd’hui et nous le recommandons à d’autres CPE. (nous ne somme pas du RCPEM en passant)

Louise

Congratulations to the RCPEM on this excellent initiative! The Quebec Association for Preschool Professional Development (QAPPD) is proud to be following the Sound Management training as well. Given that our non-profit organizations are funded primarily by the public purse, accountability for how those tax dollars are managed is of paramount importance.

Sincerely,

Lisa Gallagher
CPE McGill

Have read the documents in References pages as suggested by one. Interesting and well articulated model, applicable to any type of non-profit business (in part for its abnegation principal). What about for-profit businesses? Do you use one-less principal?

Hans
Operator of family centre in Sweden

Hans,

The Sound Management model and principles are applicable to any type of business, non-profit or not, and of any size.

At first glance, it is true that Sound Management may seem more attractive to non-profit organisations, but rest assured that it is not limited to this type of organisations. Actually, to answer your questions, “abnegation” refers to the idea of subordinating your own interests to those of the organisation and it is not incompatible with the goal of making profits. To put things simply, it means that a person with deciding power should not make a corporate decision for her/his own benefit. Instead, that person should think about the organisation while making decisions.

Also, one cannot take bits and pieces of Sound Management. Either you embrace it completely or you don’t. So putting aside one principle such as abnegation in order to achieve something is just as bad as doing indirectly something that cannot legally be done directly.

Philippe Bruno, C.Adm.
Member of the Consultative Committee
Institute of Sound Management

Alma,

The answer is Yes. As I said to previously, the Sound Management is a systematic and rigorous management approach integrating in a matrix-type model. The approch simplified the classification of any kind of rules. The fundamental principles are universal on management point of view. Bernard Brault
President
Sound management Institute

What a nice concept! What a beautiful initiative from the childcare centers to engage in this healthy process. Sound Management, at least as described in your documentation, seems like a very promising concept. I beleive more real-world implementation exampled would help understand better the concept because so far, it is mostly theoretical.

Prof. David P. Porter

Thank you for your comment Professor Porter; we really appreciate it. We are currently trying to prepare more material to download so your suggestion will be taken into account.

Regards,

Philippe Bruno, C.Adm.
Member of the Consultative Committee
Institute of Sound Management

Hello Mr professor Porter

Nice to see you on our site. It is true the concept is theorical, but on the other hand the CDSG has been developped through 20 years of professional pratice. It is so practical you could be surprised. But we need good will to implement it.

Concerning the comment to Jean Tremblay, as I wrote recently, Sound Management is allergic to embezzlement, cronyism, conflicts of interest, megalomaniacs, narcissistic persons, and organizational psychopaths, villains, buccaneers, crooks, convicts, cheaters, perverts, and other gloomy characters prowling in our public and private organizations. This allergy can’t be healed.

Because the concept has been developped in French, for 20 years we did not have a tremendous demonstration of interest from Québec universities. Laval, Sherbrooke, and HEC never helped to promote it. Now because we are becoming international, things seem to change. We receive many visits from USA, Asia, and Europe. For now we don’t have sufficient funds to translate my books properly.

Thanks for visiting us
Bernard Brault

Congratulations from Russia! We too are interested in Sound Management. We will keep reading blog to learn more.

Sergei

Excellent initiative. All the CPEs in the province should do the same. We just took our Sound Management training recently (two great instructors, Guy and Phillip, who knew their stuff by the way) and we were all enchanted. We look forward to more advanced training on the topic.

Could be the best blog online!!!