ON DEMAND WEBINARS
Individual Webinars $75
Developing a Long-Term Tax Strategy
By Tim Duhamel
Provides a comprehensive overview of municipal taxes and essential knowledge that all financial professionals and executives require.
Read More Duration: 1:36:54
Intermunicipal Collaboration Framework
By Tim Duhamel
Understand ICF’s and the Financial Implications for your Municipality!
Read More Duration: 1:29:21
3 Year Operating Forecast – Day 1
By Tim Duhamel
Build a Tool to meet your municipality’s operating plan forecasting needs! Basics of forecasting. Developing the forecast process.
Read More Duration: 1:27:21
3 Year Operating Forecast – Day 2
By Tim Duhamel
Build a Tool to meet your municipality’s operating plan forecasting needs! Tool basics, tool component review.
Read More Duration: 1:35:53
3 Year Operating Forecast – Day 3
By Tim Duhamel
Build a Tool to meet your municipality’s operating plan forecasting needs! Tool template review, customizing the template.
Read More Duration: 53:56
Financial Policy Development 101
By Tim Duhamel
Learn the basics of policy development and how to create effective policies that make a difference!
Read More Duration: 1:36:00
Priority Based Budgeting
By Tim Duhamel
Learn PBB from an expert, and how to budget in today’s challenging economic climate!
Read More Duration: 1:35:42
Crisis Leadership
By Tim Duhamel
In times of crisis, financial leadership in municipalities is critical. This webinar will cover the basics of crisis leadership and crisis messaging, with a special focus on the financial function.
Read More Duration: 1:06:01
Municipal Financial Health
By Tim Duhamel
In today’s complex environment, municipal financial health is increasingly challenged. This webinar will cover key indicators of municipal financial health with strategies for financial sustainability.
Read More Duration: 1:31:21
Financial Systems – ERP and Reporting
By Tim Duhamel
This webinar will provide a comprehensive review of ERPs in the municipal financial world. Learn key strategies for the implementation and maintenance of an ERP system!
Read More Duration: 1:37:52
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!
Read More Duration: 1:36:40
Council Meeting Basics
By Tim Duhamel
Council meeting rules are complex and can be intimidating to newly elected officials and administrators presenting to council. Learn the basics of Robert’s Rules, governance, and writing an effective report for council.
Read More Duration: 1:30:21
Municipal Utility Rates and Franchise Fees
By Tim Duhamel, Ryan Musch
Non-tax supported revenues are important funding sources for municipalities. This webinar will cover the basics of utility regulations, as well as the franchise fee methodology.
Read More Duration: 1:48:14
Municipal Reserves 101
By Tim Duhamel
Municipal reserve funds serve many purposes. This webinar covers what reserves are critical to long-term financial sustainability and how to develop a long term reserve strategy for your municipality!
Read More Duration: 1:30:12
Be a Better Manager
By Tim Duhamel
Management skill is an important attribute for individual and organizational success. This webinar will provide a framework for developing individual management skills to make you a better manager.
Read More Duration: 1:30:59
Building a Better Budget Document
By Tim Duhamel
Transparent communication is the goal of a quality budget document. Learn how to transform financial information into a meaningful narrative for council and the public!
Read More Duration: 1:35:38
Budget Messaging and Communications
By Tim Duhamel
Budgeting is a critical process in any municipality. Learn how presentations to Council and messaging to the public are critical to the success of any municipality’s budgeting process.
Read More Duration: 1:11:12
Service Inventory and Overhead Allocation
By Tim Duhamel
Understanding value for taxes requires communicating the services a municipality delivers. Learn how to develop a service inventory and allocate support services for accurate costing.
Read More Duration: 1:38:44
Plan your Professional Development to Enhance your Career
By Tim Duhamel
Learn how to plan your professional development to fuel your career success and support organizational goals!
Read More Duration: 1:02:33
Asset Management for the Financial Professional
By Tim Duhamel, Mauricio Reyes
An introductory course with a fundamental understanding of asset management. Learn the finance role in asset management and how to integrate it into the budget process!
Read More Duration: 1:35:21
Municipal Basics
By Tim Duhamel
Provides an overview of municipalities from top to bottom, with a special emphasis on key processes and today’s complex financial challenges.
Read More Duration: 1:37:21
Funding/Financing Capital Budgets
By Tim Duhamel
Learn how to develop a funding strategy for your capital budget and long term capital plan!
Read More Duration: 1:39:27
Capital Budgeting 101
By Tim Duhamel
Learn the requirements for high quality capital budgeting and planning!
Read More Duration: 1:49:23
Leadership – Emotional Intelligence
By Tim Duhamel, Hailey Pinksen
Learn how emotional intelligence improves leadership.
Read More Duration: 1:33:43
Treasury and Risk Management 101
By Tim Duhamel
Learn how to manage money efficiently and effectively, as well as how to manage ongoing risks in an organization.
Read More Duration: 1:29:38
Financial Analysis – Municipal Focus
By Tim Duhamel
Learn how financial analysis plays a key component in financial sustainability.
Read More Duration: 1:41:27
Leadership and Management: Skills Critical for Success
By Tim Duhamel
Partly based on the popular “Leadership Challenge”, this webinar is about mobilizing others to get extraordinary things done.
Read More Duration: 1:35:26
Municipal Management
By Tim Duhamel
Learn basic municipal management reporting needs, and how to use reporting during the year to support operational success!
Read More Duration: 1:38:09
Project Planning and Change Management
By Tim Duhamel, Jessica Szewczuk
Learn basic foundational project and change management skills to power your career in the complex and ever-changing municipal environment!
Read More Duration: 1:28:01
Management Reporting
By Tim Duhamel
Learn basic municipal management reporting needs, and how to use reporting during the year to support operational success!
Read More Duration: 1:33:48
Reporting Essentials: Chart of Accounts / Municipal Structure
By Tim Duhamel
Learn how to drive your financial information needs with a well organized and highly effective chart of accounts!
Read More Duration: 1:32:57
Developing a Long-Term Financial Plan
By Tim Duhamel
Learn the benefits, components and methodology of a long-term financial plan for financial sustainability!
Read More Duration: 1:34:36
Municipal Contracts
By Tim Duhamel
Learn the fundamentals of contract best practices and the financial officer’s role in contract development.
Read More Duration: 1:27:16
Financial Statement Disclosures
By Tim Duhamel
Financial statement disclosure provides information about a municipality’s financial operations. Learn how they are a key component of transparency in the municipal environment!
Read More Duration: 1:33:31
Procurement – The Basics of Procurement
By Tim Duhamel
Learn best practices for municipal procurement, and about procurement policy and the role it plays in fraud prevention.
Read More Duration: 1:28:43
Municipal Strategic Planning
By Tim Duhamel
Provides an understanding of how the strategic plan is linked through all municipal processes, resulting in how we do our daily work.
Read More Duration: 1:36:15
Municipal Salary and Benefit Budgeting
By Tim Duhamel, Ryan Musch
Learn the fundamentals of accurate salary and benefit budgeting and how to utilize strategies to solve budget shortfalls!
Read More Duration: 1:34:38
Performance Measures
By Tim Duhamel
Measuring performance is a key enabler of performance improvement. This webinar provides a comprehensive review of performance measurement in the municipal environment!
Read More Duration: 1:34:33
Municipal Assessment
By Tim Duhamel
Learn the fundamentals of the assessment process, municipal assessment best practices and how to approach assessment disputes!
Read More Duration: 1:36:46
Ethics Essentials in the Municipal Sector – Day 1
By Tim Duhamel
A 2-part ethics webinar series that provides a comprehensive review and understanding of ethics in the municipal world.
Read More Duration: 2:07:28
Ethics Essentials in the Municipal Sector – Day 2
By Tim Duhamel
A 2-part ethics webinar series that provides a comprehensive review and understanding of ethics in the municipal world.
Read More Duration: 2:02:14
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