Strategic Planning

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Strategic planning has the potential to create systems changes that result in increased:

  • Community wellness,

  • Sustainability,

  • Profitability,

  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • Risk and opportunity management, and

  • Cultural revitalization

Strategic Planning is a necessary step to:

  1. Meet annual reporting requirements for Indigenous Services Canada funding agreements,

  2. Bring together all planning activities and priorities and create efficiencies,

  3. Implement the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Community Plan (CCP), or

  4. Set the stage for initiating a CCP project,

  5. Enable the drafting of the annual budget,

  6. Prepare a draft of the Nation’s long-term (5-year) financial and capital plan,

  7. Create continuity between across all departments, organizations, and interested parties (stakeholders)

  8. Develop communication products for reporting on the outcomes and progress made achieving established goals with community members and others,

  9. Ensure that all risks and opportunities are planned for,

  10. Integrate and prioritize community wellness and cultural revitalization

Strategic planning has the potential to create systems changes that result in increased:

  • Community wellness,

  • Sustainability,

  • Profitability,

  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • Risk and opportunity management, and

  • Cultural revitalization

Strategic Planning is a necessary step to:

  1. Meet annual reporting requirements for Indigenous Services Canada funding agreements,

  2. Bring together all planning activities and priorities and create efficiencies,

  3. Implement the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Community Plan (CCP), or

  4. Set the stage for initiating a CCP project,

  5. Enable the drafting of the annual budget,

  6. Prepare a draft of the Nation’s long-term (5-year) financial and capital plan,

  7. Create continuity between across all departments, organizations, and interested parties (stakeholders)

  8. Develop communication products for reporting on the outcomes and progress made achieving established goals with community members and others,

  9. Ensure that all risks and opportunities are planned for,

  10. Integrate and prioritize community wellness and cultural revitalization

Long-term strategic planning is a necessary step to create annual budgets, receive and report on funding through Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) or First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) and to lay the foundations for Community Wellness

Our approach, focusing on values and principles first, consistently achieves win-win outcomes and practical solutions to complex challenges. We focus on sustained success and the creation of long-term value for First Nations Communities and their Nation building efforts. We believe long-term social benefits come from healthy communities rooted in culture, and strong local economies working together for future generations with contemporary and traditional teachings.

Key Outcomes

  1. Significant and meaningful communications and engagement with leadership, membership, and staff.

  2. Development, communication, and support of the First Nation's Vision.

  3. Development, communication, and support of the First Nation's Strategic Plan, capacity building in governance and policy for elected members of Council.

  4. Priorities and risk awareness that can be filtered down into departmental priorities, action plans, and budgets.


Key Deliverables

  1. 2-day workshop with Leadership and Senior Staff on Strategic Planning.

  2. 1-day workshop with Leadership and Senior Staff on Governance, Fiduciary Duty & Political Skills.

  3. Revised Strategic Plan, including outcome-based logic model and indicators.

  4. Engagement Plan for the First Nation's Membership.

Strategic Plan and Continued Support

  1. Prepare an updated Strategic Plan including prioritized activities, outcomes report, logic model and departmental priorities, and a high-level engagement plan for membership communications,

  2. Meet with Chief and Council to review report, activity prioritization, engagement plan, and recommendations,

  3. Provide ongoing implementation support directly to Chief Administrative Officer

  4. Complete a 6-month Implementation Review with Chief Administrative Officer and Present to Chief and Council (optional)

  5. Annual Review (optional)