Bloom Municipal Scan
By Tim Duhamel
This webinar will cover Bloom’s custom municipal SWOT methodology and provide you with a systematic way to understand the many challenges and opportunities your municipality faces!
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Course Content
- Municipal scan framework – municipal SWOT analysis
- Using the Bloom Municipal Scan to identify opportunities and risks
- Municipal scan use for mandatory 3 year operating and 5 year capital plans
- Municipal scan use for business planning
- Municipal scan use for public engagement and communication
- Integration into process – designed specifically to support and enhance all municipal processes
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- Municipal scan framework – municipal SWOT analysis
- Using the Bloom Municipal Scan to identify opportunities and risks
- Municipal scan use for mandatory 3 year operating and 5 year capital plans
- Municipal scan use for business planning
- Municipal scan use for public engagement and communication
- Integration into process – designed specifically to support and enhance all municipal processes
Course Info
Price:$125.00
PD Credits: 1.5
Category: Technical
Updated: Sep 9, 2020
Duration: 1:36:40
Course Synopsis
About the Author
Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of
Municipal Education.
He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.
His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
About the Author
Stephanie Porter is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and
external auditor with Metrix Group LLP.
She has a passion for education and is a course developer and instructor for the University of Alberta in addition to her work at Bloom.
She is the lead Associate of curriculum development and instruction for Bloom’s reporting and audit stream.
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Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of Municipal Education.
He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.
His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
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Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of Municipal Education.
He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.
His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Stephanie Porter is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and external auditor with Metrix Group LLP.
She has a passion for education and is a course developer and instructor for the University of Alberta in addition to her work at Bloom.
She is the lead Associate of curriculum development and instruction for Bloom’s reporting and audit stream.
About the Author
Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of Municipal Education.
He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.
His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
About the Author
Stephanie Porter is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and external auditor with Metrix Group LLP.
She has a passion for education and is a course developer and instructor for the University of Alberta in addition to her work at Bloom.
She is the lead Associate of curriculum development and instruction for Bloom’s reporting and audit stream.
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Course Description
Success in today’s municipal environment, and understanding a municipality’s challenges and opportunities, is critical for strategic planning, business planning, and budgeting.
This webinar covers Bloom’s custom municipal SWOT methodology that facilitates the gathering of critical information, identifies opportunities and risks, is critical to the development of operating and capital plans, and assists with business planning, public engagement and communication.
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Success in today’s municipal environment, and understanding a municipality’s challenges and opportunities, is critical for strategic planning, business planning, and budgeting.
This webinar covers Bloom’s custom municipal SWOT methodology that facilitates the gathering of critical information, identifies opportunities and risks, is critical to the development of operating and capital plans, and assists with business planning, public engagement and communication.
Learning Outcomes
Learn how to gather relevant and critical information systematically using an efficient and organized process
Identify opportunities and risks to support action to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate future challenges
Learn how to use the municipal scan in the building of the mandatory three-year operating and five-year capital plans
Learn how to use a municipal scan to provide municipal leaders with evidence to make informed decisions
Communicate evidence that explains and justifies decisions enhanced with quality information
Learn how to integrate the Bloom municipal scan to support and enhance municipal strategic planning, budgeting, business planning, and master planning processes
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Learn how to gather relevant and critical information systematically using an efficient and organized process
Identify opportunities and risks to support action to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate future challenges
Learn how to use the municipal scan in the building of the mandatory three-year operating and five-year capital plans
Learn how to use a municipal scan to provide municipal leaders with evidence to make informed decisions
Communicate evidence that explains and justifies decisions enhanced with quality information
Learn how to integrate the Bloom municipal scan to support and enhance municipal strategic planning, budgeting, business planning, and master planning processes
Who Should Attend?
A unique professional development experience that has benefit for all municipal staff, including small, medium and large municipalities!
The webinar focus is on the professional development needs of any municipal financial professional and senior executive.
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A unique professional development experience that has benefit for all municipal staff, including small, medium and large municipalities!
The webinar focus is on the professional development needs of any municipal financial professional and senior executive.
BLOOM can customize courses for your needs.
Some topics include:
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- Municipal risk and opportunity reviews
- Financial condition assessments
- Budget process reviews and development
- Priority based budgeting
- Program and service costing
- Operating budget forecasting and financial solution development
- Asset management
- Capital budget development and prioritization
- Capital plan development and prioritization
- Capital plan funding strategies (debt, grants, reserves, operating budget)
- Long term financial plan development
- Municipal price inflation (MPI) development
- User fee and permit reviews
- Development levy plans
- Grant research and application support
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- Strategic plan facilitation and development
- Business plan facilitation and development
- Situational consulting and strategy development
- Facility project plans and feasibility studies
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- CAO mentorship and education
- Finance officer mentorship and education
- Council orientation and education
- Environmental education
- Communication and writing mentorship
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- Project plans
- Change management plans and facilitation
- Services reviews
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- Representation and negotiations
- Intermunicipal agreement reviews, frameworks and facilitation
- Intermunicipal negotiations
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- Communication plans and strategies
- Facility sponsorship packages
- Narrative process development (budgets, strategic plans, business plans)
- Business plan writing
- Budget communication support
- Media releases
- Media strategy
- Newsletter development
- Public survey development
- Business case development
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- Environmental education
- Environmental communication plans and strategies
- Climate change adaptation plan development
- Environmental strategic planning
- Environmental grant research and support
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