Business Continuity

Understanding and managing immediate, short-term and longer-term risk in your organization are critical responsibilities of the board and the executive director. We can help you to:

  • Understand the principles of business continuity, risk management and health and safety management.
  • Identify types of risk in your organization.
  • Assess your organization’s current and future risks, prioritize these, and determine your organization’s tolerance and readiness to address each type of risk.
  • Guide your organization in developing systems for managing each type of risk including a Health and Safety Management System IHSMS) and/or a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).
  • Assist in establishing a process to regularly monitor, address and report risks and ensure compliance with related legislation.

Financial Management

Financial systems and accountability are key to your organization’s success and credibility. We can work with you to:

  • Review your organization’s financial management programs, including policies and controls.
  • Suggest changes in policies, practices and procedures to better manage your financial affairs.
  • Develop a budgeting and financial control system.
  • Facilitate the annual budgeting review.
  • Improve your management reporting.

Governance

Skills in board governance are essential to successful organizations. We can support your board to be the best it can be. We will work together with your board to:

  • Establish a common framework for governance.
  • Examine various governance models and options.
  • Help a board of directors understand what governance practices it should be engaged in.
  • Identify related by-laws issues for board and legal consideration.
  • Clarify roles and responsibilities.
  • Improve Board recruitment, orientation, training and retention.
  • Increase the effectiveness of board operations.
  • Maximize the value of board committees and other supporting structures.
  • Evaluate board dynamics

Human Resources

People are the most important resources of any organization, especially Non-Profit organizations. It is your people that make things happen. We have skilled Human Resources Professionals with expertise who willingly assist organizations with a wide range of people matters. We can help you with expertise in the 6 major areas of effective human resources management:

  • Planning for Needed People Resources for Service Delivery
  • Recruitment and Staffing
  • People Development
  • Compensation, Benefits, and the Work Environment
  • Health, Safety and Wellness
  • Employee Relations

Specifically, we can offer your organization assistance and informal coaching on mattes such as:

  • Work force and succession planning, along with related policy and program development
  • Reporting relations in an organizational chart
  • Current employment-related and human rights legislation, along with emerging trends impacting people within organizations
  • Effective recruitment and interviewing approaches to help you attract and engage qualified and talented individuals
  • Performance management processes and tools (employee review, feedback, and developmental discussions and planning)
  • Total rewards planning and strategies (pay, benefits and working conditions) that align with your organization’s reality to attract and retain talented people
  • Key messaging for positive employee relations and engagement on all matters HR

And all those HR-specific tasks such as: job descriptions, interview questions and candidate assessments, employment contracts, compliance with Human Rights and Employment Standards legislation specific to Alberta, crafting of standard working conditions for your employees into policies and practices, Occupational Health and Safety compliance areas, compensation reviews within the context of your organization’s market, and the like. While we can offer preliminary assessments of sensitive employment matters, we do not offer advice on legal matters related to termination of employment or union certification. And as such we will refer to appropriate expert resources.

Strategic Planning

We can help you develop a strategic plan to achieve your vision for your organization. We can also help with work plans that support your strategic direction. We will help you to:

  • Develop clear strategies, goals and measurement indicators.
  • Identify and analyze issues, goals, concerns, and other information critical to strategic thinking.
  • Clarify goals and priorities.
  • Assess the consistency of programs with the organization’s mission.
  • Clarify operational and resource implications.
  • Develop operating plans, both long-term and annual.
  • Design outcome measurements.
  • Help you develop a strategic plan.