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Applied Management › Other Sources

AFOA will do its utmost to provide members with as many sources of information as possible for members' capacity development. In addition to those sources developed by AFOA, and those being shared by CGA Canada, this section of the Aboriginal Centre for Finance and Management Excellence will also include other sources of information as they are made available. Members will be advised of new postings.

First Nation Self-Evaluation of Community Programs – A Guidebook on Performance Management
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This guidebook is about First Nations developing their own approaches to evaluating how well community programs are achieving community goals. It presents ideas and options for First Nations to consider in developing self-evaluation tools that reflect Aboriginal communities, traditions and priorities.

The guidebook was developed by a First Nations Working Group on Performance Measurement and the Department of Audit and Evaluation Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in October 1998.

Best Practices for Aboriginal Financial Institutions
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AFOA is pleased to make available to AFOA members a recently released report on best practices undertaken by the National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association. (NACCA).

The 180 page report draws from best practices of non-profit organizations, corporations and Aboriginal Financial Institutions in Canada and elsewhere. While the report was written specifically for Aboriginal Financial Institutions, much of the content is applicable to Aboriginal community-based organizations and non-profits particularly as it focuses on governance and human resources.

AFOA would like to thank NACCA for generously making this report available to AFOA members.

Custom Employee Handbooks
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Carswell Custom Handbooks is please to be a new Affinity Partner of the AFOA.  Our goal is to provide those members who require a current compliant employee handbook the opportunity to have this project completed (nobody likes writing policies); in the most economical and efficient process available.  Special pricing is available for AFOA members.

Your Personal Employee Handbook Support Team
Custom Employee Handbooks focuses on helping small and mid-sized organizations create and publish their employee handbook in an efficient manner. Servicing business sectors such as manufacturing, service, distribution, retail as well as not for profit and professional associations, Custom Employee Handbooks offers a significant advantage. Producing an employee handbook is typically a difficult and time-consuming task that can consistently be stalled or interrupted while addressing other pressing business matters. Custom Employee Handbooks uses an innovative system reducing your work by up to 75% and providing an opportunity to finally "get the job done".

Why Is An Employee Handbook Important?
To help your company avoid unnecessary risk. You understand that an employee handbook is much more than a nice thing to have in place. Creating and distributing a proper employee handbook can help:

  • Protect your company from potential misuse of resources
  • Avoid confusion and remove chance for future conflicts
  • Clearly set employee expectations with policies and procedures
  • Accelerate new hire orientation to company culture
  • Increase professionalism and efficiency in your office
  • Assist managers to make consistent application of policies across groups
  • Establish and demonstrate your company's open communication policy

Additional information on our process can be found at www.customhandbooks.com or by calling toll-Free 1-888-887-9088 and speaking with Bev Husing.

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