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Circle - Managing a Growing SME

Congratulations, you have achieved the impossible: growth is on the horizon! But now that the startup phase is well behind you, you find yourself with employees to manage, an ecosystem to establish, and financial management to handle. What are your true accelerators, and what are the gaps to fill? How can you establish guidelines to manage growth without drifting away from what matters most to you? Leaders of growing businesses, take advantage of this Afi U. Circle to discuss the issues close to your heart and benefit from valuable advice from your peers and business coach.

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  • Duration: 3 days
  • Regular price: $750
  • Preferential price: $750

Course outline

Coach Marie-Pier St-Hilaire

Audience

Circle dedicated to SME leaders (owners, CEOs, general managers...).

Format

  • A circle consists of three (3) sessions.
  • The duration of each session is 90 minutes.
  • Sessions take place every two (2) weeks to allow for progress tracking and ongoing problem resolution.
Challenges addressed
  1. Session 1: Bringing forth the manager within you
    How to bring forth and make the manager within oneself shine?
  2. Session 2: Building a strong ecosystem to drive your strategy
    It takes a village to grow an SME... Do you have the right people in place to propel your strategy?
  3. Session 3: Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, Really?
    What is your relationship with money for your business, your collaborators, and for yourself personally?

Objectives

Surrounded by peers from various organizations, address issues and themes related to your reality and professional challenges. Experience the power of synergies and shared experiences to act confidently on a daily basis. Leave the circle with new ideas, innovative concepts, and new research applicable immediately.

Participants from different organizations form a learning group. Each brings their own professional challenges and concerns.

Learning method

Experience Sharing: Each participant has the opportunity to share their experiences, thoughts, and specific issues with their circle (group). Sharing is structured, with a designated time for each participant.
Discussion and Feedback: Circle members listen, ask questions, and also offer relevant ideas, suggestions, and feedback.
Co-Creation of Solutions: The group collaborates to generate solutions to the presented challenges. Each participant contributes their expertise and perspective.
Action: Participants leave with new ideas, innovative concepts, and practical recommendations that they can apply in their respective work environments.
Confidentiality: Discussions in the coaching circle are confidential, fostering a safe environment for open sharing and vulnerability.
An Afi U. Circle brings together professionals from diverse backgrounds to discuss their challenges, share experiences, generate collaborative solutions, and leave with practical ideas to implement in their daily work. It is a powerful approach to learning and professional development.

Session 1: The Manager Within How to bring forth and make the manager within oneself shine?

Session 2: Surrounding Yourself with an Ecosystem to Propel Your Strategy It takes a village to grow an SME... do you have the right people in place to propel your strategy?

Session 3: Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, Really? What is your relationship with money for your business, your collaborators, and for yourself personally?

Money doesn't buy happiness, really?

Surround yourself with the best

Marie-Pier St-Hilaire
Marie-Pier St-Hilaire
CEO
Harvard Business School graduate, Marie-Pier has always been at the heart of transformation initiatives. Named to the prestigious list of Canada’s Top 40 under 40, the born entrepreneur founded AFI Expertise, now a division under the umbrella of Edgenda. With over 150 employees, Group Edgenda is considered as one of the 300 largest SMEs in Quebec and holds a spot in the 400 Canada’s top growing companies. In today's fast paced and ever-changing digital world, Edgenda's mission is to help and support organisations, teams and individuals, by ensuring human development and the long-term sustainability of Canadian businesses.
Janet Lough
Janet Lough
Trainer
Janet Lough is a skilled, dynamic, authentic trainer, facilitator, and bilingual coach. She has over 25 years of knowledge and experience in management, training, communication, operations, strategy, and leadership in the non-profit sector and in entrepreneurship. This enables her to better understand her client’s business reality.
Josée Blaquière
Josée Blaquière
Trainer
Josée Blaquière has more than 40 years of experience as an organizational development consultant, as a facilitator and trainer, and as a coach for leaders and their teams. In addition to her extensive experience with leaders and their teams, Josée has led several conception and animation projects for leadership, performance management and coaching training programs. Josée is a graduate in industrial relations and holds a master's degree in organizational development MSOD.
Dominique Barbès
Dominique Barbès
Trainer and Certified Coach
Dominique Barbès is a certified coach, trainer and consultant in leadership development within various organizations. She is an MCC coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation.