Leadership Development for Boards and Professional Staff

Board Development
Discuss the composition, responsibilities and relationships that constitute successful boards and how to run one with a focus on building a cohesive team. We will also examine how board members can be better advocates for your organization by helping them construct a compelling case based on the mission of your agency.

Lay/Professional Relations
Explore the roles and responsibilities of this unique partnership, its limitations and its opportunities. Included in our discussion will be suggestions on how to build a web of relationships to help support your institution and advance your mission.

Effective Communication Skills
Learn to speak so others listen and listen so others respond. We will learn how to create and deliver clear and impactful presentations and then apply some successful presentation techniques in thinking about what does and does not work in a variety of settings. We will also examine how to structure meetings and set meeting agendas to engage more participation and achieve optimal results.

Motivating and Inspiring Others
This session will explore traditional Jewish texts and popular leadership literature as a platform for thinking about what inspires us in the non-profit work that we do. We will then demonstrate how to use the personal stories connected to our organization into sources of inspiration to reenergize ourselves, our volunteers and our professional staff.

Enhanced Succession Planning
We don’t always consider future leadership until the last moment. This seminar will examine structures and mechanisms for identifying and mentoring future lay or professional leaders so that the goals and implementation of one leadership team can continue through the transition to another.

Supervision and Mentoring
What makes a great supervisor or mentor? We will look at some definitions from the world of business and education and then do some hands-on training to make supervision better and more consistent throughout your organization.

Dealing with Difficult People
This may be one of the greatest challenges to emerging leaders. This seminar will categorize different types of “difficult” people and go type-by-type and demonstrate some hands-on ways to manage them while liking yourself.

Conflict Resolution
How do you identify a problem and mange resistance to its solution? Using business literature, this session will look at how participants currently manage conflict and complaints and share techniques and solutions to handling challenging situations with great clarity, confidence and optimism.