Professional Development: Consulting & Seminars
Communication Planning
The Communication Planning Seminar is designed for those in leadership and supervisory positions where having a strategic communication plan with communications delivery vehicles enhances the accountability and transparency and feedback between leadership and band members.
Change Management
With the increasing content and pace of information, managing and controlling change demands clarity of purpose for everyone involved affected by change. The Change Management Seminar integrates key communication and organizational development principles based on community values.
Appreciative Inquiry
If community leadership can slowly move away from a “problem solving” style to a Discovery, Design, Delivery style, then the community moves from “a problem to be solved” to “a mystery to be embraced”. The Appreciative Inquiry Seminar reflects and integrates common values among members working in small or large groups where seemingly differing goals can be merged into common successful results.
Personal Financial Management
The majority of Band members experience some level of personal financial stress during their careers. The Personal Financial Management Seminar provides a personal financial management structure with skill development, tools, and information for participants to be motivated to actively manage their personal financial future.
Pension Plan Basics
Many communities have a Defined Contribution Pension Plan for their Band employees, yet many members are unsure of how their personal circumstances such as a change in their employment status, disability, and retirement will affect their pension benefit for themselves and their family. The Pension Plan Basics Seminar details the facts and the decision criteria regarding options and alternatives regarding their pension benefits under varying situations.
Retirement Planning
At some point in time everyone retires from active employment and live off of their employment pension, government retirement income programs, and personal savings, the Retirement Planning Seminar provides a process of integrating the key elements of retirement planning.