Community Futures Wild Rose hosts second Streamlining Success workshop of year

By John Watson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Community Futures Wild Rose hosted a Streamlining Success workshop, March 13, offering advice and strategies surrounding operations, time management and efficiency for small businesses. 

“We decided to run this course (as) a direct result of a survey we did with the business owners within our region. We asked them what type of training they were looking for, and one of them that they identified that they were looking for operational efficiency and time management skills training,” said Chantale Sangster, executive director of Community Futures Wild Rose.

This time around, the program saw five participants, each of whom opted to participate online. Sangster added typical attendance numbers for similar programs ranges from five to 14 people.

Trisha Breault, community economic development coordinator, said participants are surveyed at the end of each session for their feedback.

“The feedback for this one has been good in that it has helped them put into perspective how they can either delegate different things or different time management skills and how to use them in their work, but also day to day,” said Breault. “You give them lots of tools that are free online that can help them organize and become more efficient and be better at time management by utilizing those online platforms.”

The Streamlining Success workshop has been run by Community Futures Wild Rose twice so far this year. The first workshop took place in January. 

Following the March session, the next workshop this year will be scheduled to take place in the fall. The goal being to make the course as accessible as possible for those who are interested. 

“There are different time management techniques – we go through different best practices, we go through best practices in staying on top of things, different digital tools that they can use to help streamline their day-to-day operations,” said Sangster. “We review the techniques and how to use them and then how they can integrate them, and we try and get them thinking about how they can integrate these things daily to make their lives a little easier and help with their work-life balance.”

Skills taught and demonstrated through the Streamlining Success workshop were explained to be applicable to more than just the workplace, but rather as well to any participant’s daily life outside of work.

Sessions through Community Futures are free to attend for interested parties, and in person attendees will be treated to lunch as part of the event.

More information regarding the Streamlining Success workshop, as well as others offered by Community Futures Wild Rose is available through their website. Following a given session, participants are also directed to additional online learning, or are able to ask questions directly to Community Futures staff.