Strategic Planning
MIHKO ISKWEW supports First Nations and Indigenous organizations with planning that helps leaders and teams assess needs, align goals with community values, narrow priorities, and assign responsibility for the work ahead.
Your planning process can begin with the questions your leaders need to resolve, such as which services to strengthen, how to respond to changing program needs, or what direction should guide the next stage of work.
Strategic Planning Can Help When
Leadership and Administration Development
Executive directors, managers, supervisors, and senior administrators explore how Indigenous values connect with leadership and operational responsibilities. Sessions focus on communication, leadership tools, and following through on commitments.
Case Management Practice
Income Assistance, Wellness, and Labour Force Development teams build skills in assessment, case planning, documentation, and follow-up. The focus is consistent practice that supports the people using your services.
Cultural Awareness at Work
Custom managerial training can address Indigenous awareness, workplace relationships, and respectful communication. Connect these topics with the pressures and responsibilities of leading people at work.
Team Communication and Working Agreements
Facilitated staff discussions examine communication, teamwork, and shared expectations. Your team can identify working agreements and the next steps needed to put them into practice.
Training & Facilitation
Build skills in case management, leadership, workplace communication, administration, and team follow-through.
MIHKO ISKWEW delivers culturally respectful training and facilitated staff sessions shaped around the responsibilities of First Nations administrations, Indigenous organizations, and business teams.
Training can help staff develop practical skills through structured learning. Facilitation can give your team a guided space to examine communication, working agreements, program challenges, and next steps.
Training and Facilitation Can Support
Leadership and Administration Development
Executive directors, managers, supervisors, and senior administrators explore how Indigenous values connect with leadership, communication, operational responsibilities, and following through on commitments.
Case Management Practice
Income Assistance, Wellness, and Labour Force Development teams build skills in assessment, case planning, documentation, follow-up, and consistent service practice.
Cultural Awareness at Work
Custom managerial training can address Indigenous awareness, workplace relationships, respectful communication, and the pressures of leading people at work.
Team Communication and Working Agreements
Facilitated staff discussions help teams examine communication, shared expectations, teamwork, and the next steps needed to put agreements into practice.
Community Engagement
Bring staff, community, and participant perspectives into planning in a respectful and useful way.
MIHKO ISKWEW can support engagement processes that gather input, organize what was heard, and connect community perspectives to program decisions, service direction, and future planning.
Engagement methods can be shaped around your community, planning purpose, audience, and desired outcome. This may include guided group work, workstations, facilitated discussions, and other approaches that help people contribute in ways that fit the setting.
Staff / Team Development
Support your team with practical tools, shared language, and clearer ways of working together.
Staff and team development can be built around the real responsibilities your people carry. Sessions may focus on communication, leadership, documentation, follow-up, case management, workplace expectations, working agreements, or how staff apply learning in day-to-day service delivery.
The goal is not just to deliver information. The goal is to help your team understand what needs to change, what tools can support the work, and how to carry the learning forward.
How We Begin
Share Your Need
Tell us what kind of support you are looking for, who needs to be involved, your location, preferred timing, and what you want the work to help resolve.
Clarify the Context
We discuss your planning questions, staff roles, program responsibilities, service challenges, audience, and desired outcomes.
Choose the Right Direction
Together, we determine whether your organization needs strategic planning, training, facilitation, community engagement, or a combination of supports.
Confirm the Scope
We confirm the session or engagement scope, materials, format, outputs, timing, and any follow-up support that may be needed.
Delivery and Support
Share your preferred dates, location, and format. We will confirm the session scope, materials, and any requested follow-up support.