Support for small dance companies: organizational strategies and future visions

15$/hour

A brand new support program aimed at small companies
that want to establish a better structure
and/or an optimal functioning system to support their practice.

Submit your application (Deadline: September 30)

This training consists of a personalized support program in management, strategic planning, and career development. It is aimed at small companies (non-profit organizations) and artist collectives, with or without a small team, who have been practicing for several years. The goal is to equip you with tools for better control over your management practices and workload, in order to sustain your activities, streamline your processes, and/or reduce mental burdens.

This is an opportunity for you to take a step back from your professional activity, engage in a deep reflection on your practices, and devise new organizational strategies that are both consistent with your mission and adapted to the current realities of the dance field.

You will gain personalized knowledge and tools for reflection, analysis, planning, and management to enhance your practices, evaluate your perspectives, and make realistic decisions regarding the challenges posed by your organizational and business development.

By the end of the process, you will have a better understanding of your environment and will navigate it with greater agility. You will gain the keys to surround yourself with people who can help you advance concretely and to find operational modes suited to current societal transformations, your organizational needs, and your human resources. Furthermore, you will be able to make more realistic decisions based on the resources you have and develop better skills in handling change.

Objectives

You will determine the specific objectives of your support project, which will be detailed with the facilitators. However, in general, the program aims to address the following objectives:

Acquire the missing and necessary tools for the optimal functioning and development of your organization.
Understand the key principles of sound governance.
Develop and maintain a strategic vision.
Value collective intelligence and foster engagement to improve work relationships and ensure an environment that supports the mental well-being of the teams.
Develop your ability to self-diagnose, map out your processes, evaluate your work organization, and assess your needs, strengths, weaknesses, and prospects.

Service format

The support is offered online, either in an individual format or in a small group of two (2) to three (3) people maximum.

The schedule for your meetings will be determined with the assigned facilitator, but the entire intervention must take place between October 30, 2024, and February 28, 2025. Make sure you have the time and are motivated, as you will need to be available and committed if you participate in the program!

Who can benefit from this training?

To small non-profit companies or artist collectives, either with no team or with a small team, who have several years of practice and wish to establish better structures and optimize organizational functioning.

Submit your application

Places are limited. We will select approximately six (6) applications, depending on the number of available hours and the needs expressed by all applicants. Priority will be given to members of the RQD.

To apply :

Complete our registration form by September 30, 2024, at the latest.
Respond to our call for submissions by September 30, 2024, at the latest.

Expertise of the trainers

Management practices, functions, and processes.
Vision, planning, and strategic development.
Work organization.
The dance ecosystem, funding bodies, and representation.
De-hierarchization of work relationships: collective intelligence and shared governance.
Mutualization, sharing, and coopetition.
Time and resource management.
Writing strategies and strategic writing.
Governance and internal policies.

Trainers

Fabienne Cabado brings the wealth of her diverse experience to institutions, organizations, and individuals who wish to enhance their visibility and impact, refine the alignment between their mission and image, adapt their vision to the realities of a changing world, and improve their practices accordingly

Her support is based on active listening and openness to new possibilities, collaboration and stimulation of collective intelligence, and the acquisition of knowledge and skills that promote the full potential of her clients.

Her in-depth knowledge of the arts sector and its challenges is based on four and a half years as director of the RQD, preceded by about fifteen years serving clients in various sectors of the cultural world.

As a consultant since 2021, she offers a variety of services, including training. Her pedagogical skills are particularly enriched by an early career in teaching, the five artistic and strategic communication trainings she has delivered, and her support for several ‘Coup de Pouce’ programs at the RQD.

Three national associations (in Quebec and New Brunswick), five cultural councils, and three higher art schools have already sought her training services.

Danielle Thibault holds a master’s degree in theater and a diploma in cultural animation and research from UQAM. She worked for over 28 years at the Service de la culture of the City of Montreal. Among other roles, she was responsible for the Théâtre de Verdure, led the theater expertise committee, and designed, directed, and facilitated numerous training activities, in addition to writing several educational documents.

She has participated in several international missions and contributed to numerous juries. She has served on various boards of directors and is well-versed in managing non-profit organizations. She also served as interim general director of the CQT (November 2022 to April 2023).

She provides consulting services to artists and artistic companies across various disciplines. Her services particularly focus on distribution and network development, grant writing, and improving management, organizational, and governance practices

This program offered by the Regroupement québécois de la danse is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Government of Quebec, through the Intervention-Compétences program administered by Compétence Culture.