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of our Seminars are designed, developed and delivered by First
Nations people who have experience working in our communities.
To ensure that our participants are given ample opportunity
to take an active part, each seminar is limited to a maximum
of 15 participants. All are encouraged to ask questions and
to share some of their experiences, both negative and positive.
The topics that are covered in each seminar are relevant to
First Nations communities. In this way, participants can return
to their communities with fresh ideas that they can implement
immediately.
Each delegate receives a Binder of Resource Material and a
Certificate of Completion upon successful completion of one
of our Seminars. Most of our Seminars are three to five days
in length, but can be adapted to meet the needs of the community.
They are offered in the Fall, Winter/Spring and Summer in
central locations across Canada. However, our Facilitators
and Trainers enjoy traveling into our communities to provide
the seminars, if there are at least 15 delegates. Many of
our participants have returned to take further seminars. If
you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our
office. We would be pleased to hear from you.
The following Seminars, listed alphabetically, have been taken
by over 4,000 people across Canada. If there are other Seminars
that interest you which are not listed here, please contact
our office and we will do our best to accommodate your request.
Aboriginal Leadership
Skills:
learning leadership styles and what style you possess and
how to work with other styles; how to create a vision, philosophy,
goals, and policies which reflect the needs of the community
and staff, develop employee standards and good relationships
with staff; establish internal financial management principles
and practices, examine your own business and personal lifestyle
according to the medicine wheel.
Administrator/Managers:
(Education, Band Management, Health, Economic Development,
Fisheries, Land Claims, Housing etc.) includes effective budget
tips; employee policies (job descriptions, hiring, firing,
supervision, evaluations); proposal writing and submissions;
working with the Council/Board; effective communication skills;
time and stress management.
Assertiveness:
learning to be assertive in the workplace is a fundamental
component to being a good team player and a productive employee.
This workshop focuses on developing more self-confidence,
applying good communication techniques and learning to stand
up for your personal rights. Active participation is essential
in order to get the most out of the Workshop. Recognizing
personal rights; building self-confidence; role-playing; problem
solving; decision making and dealing positively with conflict.
Band Governance &
Management:
includes the power of Chief and Council; by-laws; roles and
responsibilities; creating a vision, philosophy and goals;
community development; policies (employer and employee); financial
planning and management; administration and program budgets;
relationships between the Council, the staff and the community.
Board Training:
(Economic Development, Health, Education etc.) encompasses:
building a vision and philosophy; roles and responsibilities;
establishing by-laws and policies (employer and employee);
financial planning and management; effective proposal writing
and submissions; communication and meetings.
Day Care Workers:
establish a vision for your day care center; examine your
beliefs about day cares; learn the importance of a child's
early years in their development; how to incorporate language
and culture into your annual themes; create big books, felt
stories, interactive games, songs, dances, puppets, card and
board games; staff and centre policies and evaluation.
Developing A Policy
& Procedures Manual:
covers topics such as why organizations shouldn't hire consultants
to develop their policies; developing policies that are relevant
to your organization and community; how to include the staff
and community in the development and implementation process;
how to evaluate the effectiveness of the policies.
Fundamentals
In Effective Proposal Writing:
covers topics such as researching prior to proposal writing;
generic guidelines that can be adapted to any proposal; up-to-date
techniques and methods for being a successful proposal writer;
the do's and don'ts of proposal writing and how to follow
your proposal through until it gets funded.
Hiring & Firing
Principles & Practices:
participants will learn that both practices are basically
the same and that when you do a thorough job in hiring, there
is less need to fire. You will learn how to: write advertisements
which attract the best candidates; develop job descriptions;
do criminal record checks; respond to applicants; interview
and selection procedures; do's and don'ts in writing letter
of agreements/contracts; supervision and evaluation practices.
Human Resources Management:
learn how to develop your own employment standards: job descriptions,
hiring and firing policies, exploring the difference between
supervision and evaluation; how to work with different personalities;
how to build a team approach; examine delegation, problem
solving and decision making models and leadership styles;
and examining wrongful dismissals.
Meeting
The Challenge Of First Nations Schools:
examine leadership within the entire organization, practical
problem solving strategies and techniques, discipline alternatives
based on our culture; maintaining and increasing enrolment;
increasing parental involvement; developing and maintaining
unity and pride and positive relationships between students,
staff, Board and community.
Preschool Teachers:
share, learn new ideas and become re-energized by participating
in establishing a preschool program; gain parental and community
involvement; establish annual themes and develop practical
lesson plans; incorporate culture and language; keep record
of students' progress and development; create a variety of
big books, felt stories, games, songs, dances, card and board
games and evaluate the success of your program.
Time And Stress Management:
organizing your time and reducing stress is essential to increasing
effectiveness in the workplace. Learn where you spend your
time and how you create your own stress; establish goals based
on the medicine wheel; and learn effective techniques that
can be applied immediately in your personal and professional
life.
Tuition Education
Agreements:
assists Bands/First Nations organizations in negotiating tuition
agreements with their local public education system. Topics
include: history of financial payments from the Department
of Indian Affairs to the public system through Master Tuition
Agreements (MTA); identify the problems and issues; examine
other education agreements; basic principles and topics for
negotiation; the do's and don'ts in negotiating an agreement
and developing an action plan.
Youth Empowerment:
helps our youth gain control of their lives and their future.
Some of the topics covered are: gaining an awareness of who
they are; building self esteem and coping, problem solving
and decision making skills; communication skills; suicide
intervention and prevention; AIDS; study techniques and career
planning.
Please be sure to look for our list of annual
seminars, available in February of each year!
Please
contact usif you are
interested in having us come in and deliver TRAINING or SEMINARS
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