Available Workshops
Financial Management for Project-Based & Contracting Businesses
Plan ahead, protect cash flow, and deliver profitable work
Project-based and contracting businesses often look profitable on paper while facing real cash-pressure between milestones, client invoices, payroll, materials, subcontractors, and other delivery costs. This workshop focuses on the financial disciplines needed to manage uneven revenue and make better decisions before commitments are made.
Participants will work through job or project costing, estimating assumptions, invoicing and payment timing, milestone planning, direct and indirect costs, margin awareness, change-order considerations, and scenario planning. A central focus is creating and maintaining a rolling six-month cash-flow forecast that helps leaders anticipate gaps, plan spending, and act before cash becomes constrained.
Designed for: Contractors, consultants, professional-service providers, agencies, project-based nonprofits, manufacturers, and businesses with milestone-driven revenue or significant up-front project costs.
Financial Management for New Ventures
Financial foundations for founders and early-stage businesses
This workshop gives founders and new business owners a practical understanding of the financial information required to make informed decisions. It is particularly valuable for owners who manage their own books or work with an external bookkeeper or accountant but want to better understand what the numbers are saying.
Participants will learn how the income statement, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement work together; how to build and use a start-up budget; how to distinguish revenue, profit, cash, assets, liabilities, and owner investment; and how to use basic assumptions to create a realistic forecast.
The session also covers pricing considerations, break-even thinking, expense planning, record-keeping habits, financial dashboards, and the questions owners should be prepared to ask their accounting and finance providers.
Designed for: New ventures, sole proprietors, founders, and early-stage teams preparing to launch, establish financial discipline, or make their first significant growth decisions.
Hiring Foundations for Manitoba Employers
Prepare to hire thoughtfully, fairly, and effectively
A successful hire begins well before a job posting is published. This workshop helps leaders define the work that needs to be done, identify the capabilities required, and build a more consistent hiring process.
Participants will explore role design, skills and competency matrices, defining essential versus trainable requirements, writing effective job descriptions, structured interview planning, candidate evaluation, compensation considerations, onboarding priorities, and common hiring pitfalls.
Designed for: Small businesses, nonprofits, social enterprises, and growing teams preparing to make their first hire or improve a recurring hiring process.
Building an Effective Team
Create the conditions for stronger collaboration and performance
Strong organizations do not rely only on talented individuals. They create clarity around roles, expectations, decision-making, communication, and how different working styles contribute to the whole team.
This workshop draws on organizational management and workplace psychology principles to help leaders and teams understand different work preferences, perspectives, and strengths. Participants explore role clarity, complementary work styles, management approaches, team communication, accountability, organizational structure, and the practical differences between flatter and more hierarchical ways of working.
The emphasis is on helping teams develop a shared understanding of how work moves through the organization and how to create an environment where people can contribute effectively.
Designed for: Growing teams, leadership groups, boards, project teams, organizations experiencing change, and employers seeking to strengthen collaboration and management practices.
Sustainability Reporting & ESG Readiness
Your gateway to sustainable business
Sustainability reporting does not need to begin with a complex corporate report. This workshop helps participants identify the environmental, social, governance, and economic issues most relevant to their business, customers, industry, and long-term goals.
Participants will explore how to select meaningful priorities, establish a practical reporting framework, identify useful measures, and communicate progress credibly. The session introduces ESG concepts, relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, stakeholder expectations, and practical approaches to setting indicators and gathering data.
Designed for: Businesses and organizations that want to respond to customer, lender, procurement, industry, or community expectations while building a practical sustainability foundation.