Seminar Overview
The Nonprofit Leadership and Management Program educates and inspires nonprofit leaders, empowering them to maximize organizational outcomes and drive social impact. Designed specifically for nonprofit executives and board members, the programs provide rigorous and relevant tools and strategies for transformative leadership.
Our programs focus on developing the capacity of senior leaders of nonprofit organizations, regardless of size or mission. Whether you’re facing fundraising obstacles, interested in broadening your impact, or in improving your team’s leadership skills, you’ll find a program to support your individual and organizational growth.
In each program, you'll learn from the leading nonprofit sector experts; you'll be side-by-side with other nonprofit executives; and you will return to your organization ready to apply your learning to make a lasting impact on the people and communities you serve.
Seminar Objective
- Learn new ways to think strategically about organizational issues and challenges
- Uncover your true leadership style by discovering strengths, motivations and the conditions necessary for authentic and powerful leadership
- Harness the power of story to develop your own leadership narrative and vision to motivate others
- Create an environment for moving your organization and constituents to meaningful and lasting action
Designed for
- Senior nonprofit, government/public sector and non-governmental organization executives
- Nonprofit CEOs, executive directors and major program managers looking for new tools and approaches to improve organizational performance and effectiveness
- Non-governmental, Civil Society and Community Based Organizations’ (CSOs, NGOs, CBOs) leaders
- Senior educational institution leaders, leaders of faith-based organizations
- Career switchers or for-profit leaders who intend on joining a nonprofit team or Board
Seminar Outline
Leading with Vision and Purpose: What’s Your Story?
- Learn how to maximize your performance and engage and inspire others by communicating a sense of purpose, values and vision
- Understand the daily behaviors that differentiate leaders with extraordinary impact
- Focus on how leaders identify and develop their own “Story,” or personal narrative
- Explore how to create a collective identity “Story” that communicates a compelling and inspiring vision
- Build strong followership, create value and generate significant impact through leadership
- Distinguish “Story” from “story” and learn how to communicate your identity Story, vision and values through the practice of storytelling
Building Your Brand: Strengthening Your Mission
- Create a connection between brand and mission
- Understand nonprofit brand management strategies
- Learn to communicate your value to stakeholders
- Understand the competitive landscape and how to leverage your advantages
Developing High Performing People
- Think strategically about the people resources of your organization
- Learn to communicate your values to all stakeholders
- Understand the importance of a leadership succession plan for the paid and volunteer leaders of your organization
Building Organizational Effectiveness: Strengthening Your Nonprofit
- Discuss the operational process cycles of your organization
- Refresh organizational management concepts
- Learn to identify and map strategic organizational structures
Competitive Nonprofit: Strategizing to Stay Ahead
- Understand how well developed, smart strategic decisions can improve your sustainability
- Identify and build sustainable competitive advantage
- Identify and assess your organization’s competitors to determine potential opportunities, risks, and allies
- Design a leadership communication process that facilitates organizational changes
- Learn how to balance/rebalance for sustainability
Fundraising & Marketing: Building Nonprofit Capacity
- Learn about and understand the basic principles of fund generating techniques
- Identify and assess your organization's fundraising practices and culture
- Rethink the engagement strategies with the funder and donor base and the role which targeted marketing plays in it
Leading Innovation in Nonprofits
- Explore the theory of innovation in organizations and make direct applications to the culture and strategies of your nonprofit organization
- Learn new concepts around the idea of prototyping — designing small experiments that test new ideas for your organization
- Identify key leadership traits necessary for leading in a highly innovative and high-risk environment; look at personal leadership traits as they relate to a culture
of innovation
