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C03 Sessions - Saturday 2:25pm

Adaptive Capacity: Harnessing the Imperative for Change to Enhance Organizational Performance

Presenter: Carl Sussman, Sussman Associates

Growing attention to nonprofit capacity building is leading to a finer grained and more sophisticated understanding of its many dimensions, including an emerging appreciation of "adaptive capacity." Adaptive capacity is the ability to respond to and generate change in pursuit of improved performance, greater relevance and enhanced impact. This session will be used to explore a comprehensive capacity building model, highlighting adaptive capacity's unique role, and how organizations can build their adaptive capacity.

Calling the Hard Questions: Balancing the Role of the Facilitator/Consultant in Strategic Planning that Really Makes a Difference

Presenters: Inca Mohamed, Mark Leach and Robin Katcher, Management Assistance Group

This workshop is designed to be highly interactive, using the experiences of the participants and the workshop leaders to explore the challenges inherent in the facilitator/consultant’s role when helping advocacy organizations to critically assess themselves and develop strategic plans. Specifically, participants will wrestle with and learn from each other when and how to ask the difficult questions that impede an organization’s ability to realize its mission while at the same time maintain the integrity of the process and the appropriate balance between facilitation and intervention.

Collaborative Leadership as Counterintuitive

Presenter: Virginia Purcell, VCPurcell and Associates

The presentation will cover characteristics, challenges, and behaviors of the collaborative leader that distinguish him/her from the singular, traditional model of leadership. The participants will engage in simulations wherein they will experience and identify behaviors, conflicts, and impulses that the collaborative leader manages within the context of developing and maintaining a range of collaborative endeavors. The participants will gain insight into their own preferred approach and role within the functional structure of a team and will be introduced to collaboration and leadership assessment tools.

Constructing A Message Platform

Presenter: Sally Patterson, Radiant Communications, Inc.

This interactive session will demonstrate the essential steps for building a message platform for nonprofit organizations. Using examples from their nonprofit clients, Radiant Communications will demonstrate how solid message platforms have increased their visibility and effectiveness. Participants will be given guidelines for the development of a 25-word organization description, a solid one-page fact sheet and other message tools.

The Fusion Model of Organizational Development: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding and Strengthening Organizations

Presenters: Jennifer Henderson and Tom Bailey, Strategic Interventions, Inc.

The presentation will cover the three distinct yet interconnected components of the Fusion Model of Organizational Development: 1) Core Business; 2) Back Office; and 3) Contextual Factors. The participants will learn how each of these components impacts the quality and sustainability of an organization’s work. Tools inspired by the Fusion Model for use by OD professionals and their organizational clients will be shared and tested during this interactive, participatory session.

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

Presenter: Courtney Bourns, Interaction Institute for Social Change

In this workshop, participants will explore three essential principles of the facilitative, interactive trainer. We also will experiment with three fundamental strategies for delivering high-engagement, high-impact training. Participants will learn how these strategies: sharing responsibility for success with participants; creating content, process, and results satisfaction; and using the learning pathway; can help them to facilitate powerful learning experiences.

The Power of Coaching in Capacity Building: Jazzing Up Your Practice

Presenter: Brian Fraser, Jazzthink Consulting

The session will explore the power of coaching skills in deepening the impact of capacity building efforts. Prosci’s Best Practices in Change Management Report (2003), based on a survey of 288 change management companies, concludes that 70% of change implementations fail to meet the objectives intended – they are not on time, they are over budget, and they do not enjoy the full support of the people involved. Too often our efforts to build capacity through change just don’t stick. Participants will explore and experience what perceptive and provocative coaching support can do to improve our success as capacity builders.

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