Boost your collaborative approach

Drive change with a proactive, collaborative management approach

IMPORTANT ⚠️ Due to high demand, a waiting period is to be expected for this program. We still encourage you to apply so your application can be added to the waiting list.

FOR WHO?

  • Managers
  • CEOs
  • Program directors

DETAILS

  • Academic Co-Leads: Nathalie Huntley and Marine Agogué
  • Duration: 10 days (maximum 3 consecutive days)
  • Approximately 60 hours total of training
  • Bilingual (simultaneous translation)
  • The program is free of charge thanks to the generous support of our partners; accommodation and travel costs are your only expenses.
Management

NEXT COHORTS

Cohort 8 – (March 31, 2026 to Sept 15, 2026)

This cohort is full.
This cohort will be in English.

  • Workshop dates:
    • March 31 to April 2, 2026 – HEC Montréal
    • April 14 and 21, 2026 – Online
    • May 12 and 20, 2026 – Online
    • June 2 to 4, 2026 – Ottawa
    • September 9 to 10, 2026 – HEC Montréal
    • September 15, 2026 – Online
    • November 19-20, 2026 – HEC Montréal

Cohort 9 – (November 24, 2026 to March 15, 2027)

This cohort is full.
This cohort will be in French.

  • Workshop dates:
    • 24-25-26 November 2026 – HEC Montréal
    • January 13-20, 2027 – Online
    • January 26-28, 2027 – Online
    • 16-17-18 February, 2027 –  Odanak
    • March 9 to 10, 2027 -HEC Montréal
    • March 15, 2027 – Online

Cohort 10 – (February 9, 2027 to May 25, 2027)

This cohort will be in English.

  • Workshop dates:
    • February 9-10-11, 2027 – HEC Montréal
    • March 16-18, 2027 – Online
    • March 24-31, 2027 – Online
    • April 27-28-29, 2027 –  Kebaowek
    • May 19-20, 2027 – HEC Montréal
    • May 25, 2027 – Online

Cohort 11 – (April 6, 2027 to Sept 14, 2027)

This cohort will be bilingual.

  • Workshop dates:
    • April 6-7-8, 2027 – HEC Montréal
    • May 4-6, 2027 – Online
    • May 11-18, 2027 – Online
    • June 1-2-3, 2027 – Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk
    • Sept 8-9, 2027 – HEC Montréal
    • Sept 14, 2027 – Online

PROGRAM CONTENT

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Mastering the management profession
  • Explore a set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that promote effective leadership of people
  • Establish the distinction between a person’s technical or professional credibility and their management credibility
  • Acquire a better understanding of managerial role concepts and certain management practices
  • Identify the characteristics likely to contribute to people’s motivation and engagement at work
  • Analyze the steps of a realistic approach to delegation and empowerment of people
  • Highlight some conditions for successful change in an organizational environment
  • Discuss a few topics proposed by the participants

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Become aware of one’s own perception of leadership
  • Become aware of your own leadership style and what defines you as a manager
  • Become aware of your beliefs about leadership
  • Confront your actions in collective situations
  • Assert your role as a leader and transform it as needed

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Demystify the power of influence and power dynamics within organizations
  • Identify and determine how to connect with our interlocutors
  • Develop concrete strategies to strengthen your influence in hierarchical and business relationships where family dynamics are intertwined
  • Express yourself in a way that has influence and impact

THEMES DISCUSSED

Option 1 – Managing your time and priorities: a matter of efficiency and credibility

  • Identify value-added activities
  • Set goals and priorities (urgent vs. important)
  • Learn to plan effectively with flexibility and reliability
  • Manage interruptions effectively
  • Identify concrete opportunities to improve your time management
  • Manage your emails and tasks effectively

Option 2 – Integrated strategic planning

  • Learn how to define or clarify your organization’s vision, mission and objectives
  • Enable clear direction, adaptability and team cohesion
  • Develop effective strategies and action plans for your organization

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Have benchmarks to evaluate if your team is effective
  • Know how to recognize productive and counterproductive behaviors in your team
  • Reflect on your role and practices as a team manager
  • Understand how to build a collaborative team culture

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Define the communication issues within your organization and their causes
  • The role of communication in decision-making
  • Communicate to build trustful relationships with your employees and the media
  • Managing communication on social media

THEMES DISCUSSED

Discovering co-development

  • Understand co-development as a peer-based learning approach
  • Share experiences and reflect together on real-life situations
  • Explore solutions as a group

Integration case study

  • Analyze and map out a complex situation
  • Propose practical solutions to management-related issues
  • Become more aware of your leadership style

TOPICS COVERED

Sharing and deepening your learning

  • Analyze management-related scenarios using the learning from the program
  • Discuss key takeaways and how they can be applied in everyday work
  • Continue reflecting on the role and practice of management
  • Consider next steps for personal development

Appreciative inquiry as a lever for transformation

  • Experience appreciative inquiry as a change management approach
  • Develop skills to engage stakeholders in a participatory change process
  • Build a collective vision to maintain connections after the program and continue learning together

Conferences, panels, networking and certification ceremony.

Academic Co-Lead

Nathalie Huntley, Academic Co-Lead and Director

Testimonial

Jolianne Ottawa, Management program participant, shares her experience.

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

  1. Hold a leadership position within a First Nations community/organization in Quebec or Canada:
    • Managers
    • General directors
    • Program directors
  2. To have an open mind and wanting to invest throughout the program.
  3. Thanks to the generous support of our partners, this program is offered to you free of charge. Participants must cover their transport and lodging expenses

A UNIQUE TRAINING EXPERIENCE BASED ON A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH

Our high-level programs aim to enhance the skills of current and future First Nations leaders. In so doing, this forward-looking approach will boost and enrich First Nations’ economic successes.

FNEE will offer participants an immersive experience that is true to First Nations’ traditional values of sustainability and the circular economy.

Management

OBJECTIVES

Our programs will give you the tools to:

  • Embrace and utilize a collaboration-based leadership mindset.
  • Focus on sustainable development within your communities.
  • Adopt an open, innovation-oriented and future-focused leadership practice, rooted in your values.

A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE

The immersive experience in our programs features a range of activities, including:

  • Receptions
  • Dinner conferences
  • Inspiring testimonials
  • Discussion panels
  • Visits to organizations
  • Traditional ceremonies
  • Sharing circles
  • Participant feedback
  • Leadership challenges
  • And more!

OUR PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO:

FOSTER

Better management and business practices within communities.

CULTIVATE

Leadership based on a collaborative mindset.

EMPOWER

Participants with tools to stimulate and enhance business success and management of services.

SPECIAL FEATURES

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Trainers from the academic and business worlds
  • Training given by First Nations facilitators in duo with HEC Montréal professors
  • Learning methods based on real-life cases that are directly transferable to an organizational setting
  • Unique content developed collaboratively by HEC Montréal and First Nations, inspired by existing high-level programs
  • Programs jointly developed and taught in line with your values

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