C06 Thursday, 2:15pm-5:30pm

A Culturally-Based Approach to Professional Development for Capacity Builders

Presenters:

Executive Transition Management Services: Step-by-Step Workshop for Implementing in Your Practice

Presenters:

Tom Adams, TransitionGuides
Lynne Molnar, Third Sector New England
Vernetta Walker, BoardSource

This workshop provides a practice and research-based introduction to executive transition management consulting, a strategy responsive to the aging Baby Boom leadership exodus and increasing change in nonprofit leadership nationally and locally.  Participants will be introduced to a step-by-step review of the executive transition management process for working with nonprofit boards in planning for and successfully completing a change in executive director/top staff leadership.  The workshop offers consultants and management support organization leaders lessons on how to develop or expand a succession planning and executive transition services consulting practice.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

Fostering Collaborative Leadership Styles

Presenter:

Pollyanna Pixton, Institute for Collaborative Leadership

Collaborative leaders create adaptive and participatory organizations by fostering innovation and trust and encouraging creativity and efficiency.  How can capacity builders foster collaborative leadership styles to help organizations thrive in environments of change?  This workshop will cover key strategies in seeding and cultivating collaborative leadership in nonprofit organizations.

Track:  Leadership and Governance

Forming Alliances: Ways to Support NPOs in Working Together to Achieve Mutual Goals

Presenters:

Emil W. Angelica, Community Consulting Group, LLC 
Linda M. Hoskins, Community Consulting Group, LLC

We believe that partnerships and collaboration don't have to be complex; simpler alliances are often more effective. While many alliances are created reactively; this session will provide an opportunity for you as a capacity builder to think proactively about how to enable nonprofits to achieve goals through finding partners.  This workshop will present a continuum of possible alliances as well as tools and a process to use in assisting organizations in forming an alliance to help them achieve their goals.

Track:  Collaboration

Meeting Mission through Advocacy:  A Road Map for Building Nonprofit Capacity to Engage in Legislative Advocacy

Presenters:

Gita Gulati-Partee, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
Jim Hudson, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest

Nonprofit organizations excel at providing direct services that address immediate needs.  Advocacy on public policy helps address the systemic causes that perpetuate those needs, leading to greater and more sustainable impact on the most pressing social issues of our time.  In this interactive workshop, learn how to use the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest's Roadmap to build nonprofits' organizational capacity and strategic ability to engage effectively in legislative advocacy.

Track:  Advocacy and Social Change

Powerful Thinking about Collaborative Leadership: Dialogue for Experienced Capacity Builders

Presenters:

Denice Rothman Hinden, Managance Consulting
David Maurrasse, Marga Incorporated
Dianne J. Russell, Institute for Conservation Leadership

Collaboration and Leadership:  What meaning do you give these concepts in your capacity building work to help nonprofits achieve high performance?  How do your own beliefs and behaviors about these concepts influence your work and ultimately the capacity of the organizations you assist?  We'll explore these questions in this highly interactive workshop uniquely designed for experienced consultants and organization leaders with at least 5 years of capacity building experience.  Participants will engage in creative personal self-reflection and brainstorm ideas with colleagues aimed at deepening our individual consciousness about how we can be more powerful in our own work to live out the conference theme of "teaming up to strengthen the sector."

Track:  Collaboration

Strategic Planning Including ALL Stakeholders: A Blend of Large Scale Change Processes

Presenters:

Jean Katz, Jean Katz Consulting
Rigoberto Rodriguez, Rigoberto Rodriguez Consulting, Inc.

This workshop will review the principles and methodologies of four large- scale change process methods (Future Search Conferences, Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry Summits, and Whole Scale Change) and explore how they can be used and blended in strategic planning for nonprofit organizations.  Blended approaches to large-scale change processes have proven effective with organizations as diverse as hospitals, schools and school districts, social agencies, and indigenous community groups in the United States and internationally.  This workshop will cover factors of time efficiency and maximum effectiveness for implementation, as well as an analysis of the comparative benefits of each approach.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

Capacity Building for Organizational Effectiveness

Presenters:

Paul Connolly, TCC Group
Peter York, TCC Group

A clear definition and model of "organizational effectiveness" is critical to the work of capacity builders and nonprofit organizations alike. Yet, the field has struggled for a long time with how to define organizational effectiveness. This workshop will present the results of TCC Group research on organizational effectiveness and capacity building and will present a research-based framework that identifies four core capacities of nonprofits: leadership, management, adaptive, and technical capacity.  The workshop will demonstrate how the framework can be applied to organizational assessment and strategic planning, acknowledging dimensions of organizational culture, lifecycle stages of development, mission and programs, and the resource environment.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

The Drucker Self-Assessment Tool: Effective Facilitation for Experienced Consultants and Coaches

Presenters:

Peggy Morrison Outon, Bayer Center For Nonprofit Management, Robert Morris University
Vicki Clark, Building the Capacity of Organizations
Karen Eng, Leader to Leader Institute

This workshop will expose consultants to the Drucker methodology underpinning the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool, and offer opportunities for experienced consultants to share ideas around facilitating change and coaching an organization through a self-assessment.  A strong emphasis will focus on effective facilitation and key leadership frameworks such as: dispersed leadership models, teambuilding, audience/participant analysis, training styles, and the learning cycle.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

The Masterful Trainer: Principles and Strategies for Delivering High Impact Training

Presenters:

Cynthia Parker, Interaction Institute for Social Change
Robert King Kee, Interaction Institute for Social Change

In this workshop, participants will explore the essential principles of the facilitative, interactive trainer.  Participants will experiment with three fundamental strategies for delivering high-engagement, high-impact training: sharing responsibility for success with participants; creating content, process, and results satisfaction; and using the learning pathway. Finally, we will explore tools for leading a discussion and telling stories as techniques for creating powerful learning experiences.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies

Social Enterprise Consulting: Tools and Methods to Advance the Field

Presenters:

Jennifer Li Shen, Blue Garnet Associates
Way-Ting Chen, Blue Garnet Associates

More and more nonprofits are starting business ventures to support their mission.  This workshop for capacity builders will cover assessing organizational readiness for social enterprise, principles and strategies for market research, and how to integrate social enterprise into long-range planning.  The session will also include ways to help nonprofits collaborate and develop peer sharing around social enterprise ventures.

Track:  Capacity Building Models and Strategies