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Training tailored to your community

Support for your community’s asset management challenges


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Practical support for community decisions

Every community is in a different place.

For some, the challenge is building a stronger foundation in asset management. For others, it is improving long-term planning, clarifying levels of service, strengthening risk discussions or making better use of available data.

NAMS Canada’s tailored training helps communities move forward with action-oriented support that can include both training and facilitation around priorities such as risk and levels of service. 

Community-focused asset management training

NAMS Canada works with communities to build asset management capacity through training tailored to your team’s priorities.

  • Connecting asset management to budget decisions
  • Building alignment across staff, leadership and council
  • Improving conversations about risk and levels of service
  • Moving from plans and data to decisions
  • Strengthening climate-informed service delivery

Tailored Training

Asset management training built around your community’s priorities

Training can be delivered virtually or in person, as a one-time session or as a series, for municipalities and Indigenous communities, working groups, regional groups and communities of practice.

Topics may include:

  • Asset management foundations
  • Risk and levels of service
  • Budgeting and long-term financial planning
  • Climate-informed asset management
  • Elected member and leadership training

What participants gain:

  • Stronger shared understanding across teams
  • Clearer links between service, cost and risk
  • Practical next steps based on your current situation
  • Better use of the data and information you already have


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How tailored training works

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We recommend a format and focus that fits.

We tailor the session or series to your needs.

You receive practical support grounded in your context.

Where practical, training is tailored to the information and data your community already has, so the discussion is relevant.

Flexible formats

One-time virtual or in-person sessions

Multi-part training series

Workshops for organizations or groups

Sessions for working groups or communities of practice

Sessions start at $1,500 CAD

Series pricing available on request.

Training doesn’t have to be expensive. One-time sessions start at $1500 with the option to split the cost with another community or group.

Why NAMS Canada

With decades of experience, NAMS Canada helps communities connect learning to action.

Our tailored training reflects Canadian local government realities and supports staff, leadership teams and elected officials with practical, flexible and relevant asset management learning.

Topics may include:

  • Asset management foundations
  • Risk and levels of service
  • Budgeting and long-term financial planning
  • Climate-informed asset management
  • Elected member and leadership training

What participants gain:

  • Stronger shared understanding across teams
  • Clearer links between service, cost and risk
  • Practical next steps based on your current situation
  • Better use of the data and information you already have

Not sure what kind of support you need?

Tell us the challenge your team is facing, and we will help identify a training format that fits.


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Book a 2-Hour, Virtual, Custom Training Session

Let our asset management experts help your team tackle infrastructure challenges with clarity and confidence. Our 2-hour team sessions are just $1500 CAD. Choose from 4 modules: Risk, Communication, Cross-Functional Team Building or Elected Member Training


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Coaching Roadblocks

Upcoming Training

Aligned formal training will ensure consistency and enable your team to advance together. We offer training opportunities for all players on your AM team.

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FCM Asset Management Readiness Scale


Are you looking for a self-assessment tool to help you assess your community's current asset management practices? The Asset Management Readiness Scale helps municipalities understand where they are starting from so they can adopt business practices that support better decisions about investing in infrastructure assets like roads, buildings and waste water systems.

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Tailored Training

Asset management training built for your community’s priorities. Delivered in person or virtually, designed to help teams connect asset management to service, risk, cost and decision-making.

  • Asset management foundations
  • Risk and levels of service
  • Budgeting and long-term financial planning
  • Climate-informed asset management
  • Elected member and leadership training




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Coaching

Engage industry experts to:

  • Build capacity
  • Ensure accountability
  • Inform elected officials
  • Provide leadership
  • Facilitate asset management team discussion
  • Assess maturity
  • Build asset management road maps
  • Offer peer review of your asset management plan
  • etc.




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Lunch + Learn

Brief, focused sessions designed to introduce or reinforce key asset management concepts within your organization.

  • Designed for staff, leadership, and elected officials

  • Tailored to your organization’s context and priorities

  • Focused on topics such as: foundational AM principles, risk and levels of service, integration with capital planning and governance frameworks



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