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Business Planning

PDF

$35

Overview

A practical, plain English guide to writing a business plan that works for you, your bank and your funders. It takes you section by section from your idea through to the numbers, with tips, worked examples and space to write as you go.

Who it is for: First Nations start-ups, small business owners and community enterprises

What is inside
  • Business snapshot and executive summary
  • Products, services and customers
  • Competitors and SWOT
  • Marketing, sales and pricing
  • Operations, people and skills
  • Legal, licences, insurance and risk
  • The money: start-up costs, cash flow and break-even
  • Goals, action plan and review
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Grant Writing Fundamentals

52 pages · PDF

$35

Overview

Walks through the whole grant lifecycle in plain English, from getting grant ready to acquitting a funded project. Built as a working resource with questionnaires, budget and program logic tables and templates you can reuse on every application, with community voice, cultural integrity and data sovereignty at the centre.

Who it is for: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, businesses, boards and staff, and the people who support them

What is inside
  • Getting grant ready
  • Finding the right funding
  • Designing your project
  • Writing a strong application
  • Budgets, risk and evaluation
  • After you submit
  • Toolkit and reference materials
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Cultural Awareness Training

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$35

Overview

A grounded introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and ways of working, written to build a shared baseline of understanding and respect across your whole team.

Who it is for: All staff, new starters and organisations starting a RAP

What is inside
  • Shared history and its ongoing impacts
  • Country and connection to place
  • Language and respectful terminology
  • Cultural protocols and safety
  • Respectful practice day to day
  • Reflection and next steps
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Cultural Capabilities in being a Supervisor, Leader and Manager

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$35

Overview

Moves leaders from cultural awareness to culturally capable leadership. Built around one question: what do I do differently when I go back to work tomorrow?

Who it is for: Managers, supervisors and team leaders

What is inside
  • From awareness to capability
  • The manager's five capability behaviours
  • Recruitment and onboarding
  • Communication and performance conversations
  • Conflict, employee relations and cultural safety
  • Practice scenarios
  • Your 30 day action plan
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Governance Training

PDF

$35

Overview

A plain English guide to strong governance for community controlled organisations and boards, covering the roles, responsibilities and systems that keep an organisation strong, accountable and true to its members.

Who it is for: Boards, committees, directors and Aboriginal corporations

What is inside
  • Leadership and the role of the board
  • Roles and responsibilities of directors
  • Compliance, including CATSI Act and ORIC requirements
  • Risk management
  • Reporting and accountability to members
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Leading vs Managing Staff

PDF

$35

Overview

Explains the difference between leading people and managing tasks, and how to do both well in a culturally safe workplace.

Who it is for: New and emerging leaders and supervisors

What is inside
  • Leading and managing: what is the difference
  • Setting expectations and giving feedback
  • Supporting people through change
  • Leading in a culturally safe way
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The Business Consultant

44 pages · PDF

$35

Overview

Follows a consulting engagement from start to finish: winning and scoping the work, diagnosing the business, designing solutions, delivering and closing out. Cultural safety, self-determination and capability building sit at the centre of every stage.

Who it is for: Business advisers, consultants and program officers supporting First Nations businesses, and First Nations professionals building a consulting practice

What is inside
  • The consulting practice
  • Winning and scoping work
  • Diagnosing the business
  • Designing solutions
  • Delivering the engagement
  • Closing, measuring and growing
  • Consultant's toolkit
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Thinking Like a Consultant

48 pages · PDF

$35

Overview

Puts the everyday tools and thinking habits of management consultants into plain English, grounded in First Nations business. It follows the path of solving a problem, from framing it through to putting a solution in place.

Who it is for: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business owners, managers, board members and their supporters

What is inside
  • Foundations of management consulting
  • Analysing the business environment
  • Breaking down problems inside the business
  • Crafting and testing solutions
  • Strategy and growth tools
  • Implementation and execution
  • The consultant's toolkit