The Leadership Center targets: Executive Directors, Board Chairs and Board Members, Management Teams, and Senior and Middle Managers. The more we engage everyone in the organization’s leadership team on leadership issues, the more impact our leadership development efforts will have on their organizations. Center offerings include:
- Leadership Caucus
- Board Leadership Caucus
- Living Change: A Management Simulation Program
- Consulting Services
- Leadership Circles
- Coaching
- Workshops
Nonprofit Management Simulation
Living Change is a day-long activity that realistically replicates the challenges of leading and managing in a “typical” nonprofit organization. It is an integral part of the Leadership Caucus, but is also a stand-along offering.
Leadership Consulting Services
CRE’s consulting assignments in the leadership arena help nonprofits to:
- Strengthen Management Teams
- Plan and implement an effective and smooth leadership transitions
- Plan and implement strategies for succession planning and building a talent bench
- Improve and reshape Board/ED/Staff relationships
- Build and sustain team collaboration
Leadership Circles
Leaders who share a key professional or organizational frame, can participate in peer learning through a Circle that meets regularly, e.g., monthly over a 6-12 month period. Leadership Circles work well for 7-12 participants. CRE convenes, lightly facilitates and resources the Circle with materials, knowledgeable speakers, etc. Peer exchange is promoted and Circles may self-organize, and as they do, CRE’s role evolves.
Leadership Circle of Executive Directors on Staten Island
Due to the nonprofit sector’s economic significance to Staten Island, CRE put on a six month Leadership Forum to form and promote ongoing peer support and working relationships among the borough’s executive directors. The ten participants gained insights including that leadership skills can be acquired and practiced, that self-awareness is critical for leaders, and that it is important and helpful to set aside time to reflect on their leadership, preferably with a non-judgmental set of peers.
Coaching
Coaching is designed to deal with specific issues in real time. Coaching can work for both an individual, e.g., an executive director, or a group within a single nonprofit, e.g., the management team. Individual coaching tackles priority issues identified during a goal-setting meeting and use real-time examples of interactions with staff and organizational leadership to examine the individual’s leadership practices and to consider alternative approaches to handling specific situations and people. Often anchored by 360° performance assessments, the goal-setting session establishes 2-3 steps the “coachee” would take that are then explored and refined, and each subsequent session begins with an examination of what they attempted and what resulted.
Group coaching sessions might focus on establishing shared expectations of one another, strengths to leverage, and next steps to support the individual players’ developing leadership. In between sessions, CRE would conduct phone meetings with the executive director to consider how his or her role could reinforce steps being taken with the other team members.
All of our consultants are certified to interpret and provide feedback sessions using the Clark-Wilson 360 Feedback Surveys.
Workshops
CRE offers more than a dozen workshops on a wide range of Leadership topics including Empowering High Performance, Leading Change, Partnering with Your Board, and Building a Talent Bench. A description of all of our Leadership Workshops can be found by clicking on the following link.
Leadership Workshops (69 KB)
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