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Are you thinking about what scaling means for your organisation and the impact you have? If so, do check out our Getting Scale Ready training! Over five weeks, you'll start to identify the right pathway to achieve the change you want to make in the world and develop a robust and financially sustainable plan for success.

Feeling uncertain after the election results? 🌍💡 Now more than ever, changemakers are needed to drive innovation, equity, and progress in our communities. If you're feeling called to step up and make a difference, our Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership is here to help you channel that energy into action. Join us for an Information Session to learn how our program equips leaders with the tools, knowledge, and networks to become effective agents of change in the nonprofit and social impact sectors. Why wait to start making a difference? Applications are being accepted for Spring 2025 admission, so you can begin your journey as a changemaker sooner than you think. The deadline for priority consideration for financial aid assistance is November 8 and the final deadline is November 22. ✨ Let’s turn frustration into action, uncertainty into leadership, and passion into results. Apply here: go.umd.edu/cnmlapply or join our info session Nov 8 at noon to learn more about our program: go.umd.edu/cnmlinfo #NonprofitLeadership #SocialImpact #Changemakers #LeadershipDevelopment #NonprofitManagement #EquityAndInnovation #MakeADifference #Spring2025 #FutureLeaders #BeTheChange

Struggling to get digital transformation initiatives off the ground at your organisation? Our latest research reveals the secrets to turning your C-suite and board members from skeptics into champions. Highlights: 💡 Overcome the top barriers to leadership buy-in. 💡Gain actionable insights from nonprofit leaders. 💡Learn strategies to align digital projects with organisational goals. Empower your team with the tools for success. Dive into our guide and start transforming challenges into opportunities today! #DigitalTransformation #nonprofit #npo #ngo #transformation #strategy #leadership #impact #growth #salesforce

Is well-being enough? I was recently challenged by one of our associate consultants on the benefits of our Leadership Catalyst programme of support (TLC), aimed at socially driven senior leaders with lived experience of racial injustice. Because as a life and performance coach, I know what coaching can do for individuals' productivity and performance. I know that there is a clear argument for how individual productivity relates to organisational performance. It follows that greater impact will be achieved. And our messaging sets all of this out. But we can't prove it. What we can prove is that having a safe space for leaders who experience microaggressions on a daily to discuss and find solutions to the challenges that arise as a direct result of structural racism improves their well-being. This morning, one of our former TLC participants told me and one of her organisation's funders that her experience on the programme made her not want to throw in the towel and close down the charity. It was during our strategy day a fortnight ago that Nikita Shah asked me why I felt the need to prove productivity. If funders are interested in social justice, isn't the well-being of leaders of the global majority enough? Well, is it?

We are starting a new series called "Consulting on Purpose: Designing Organizations for Impact." Today's topic is Leadership Teams and Parallel Process! Over the last few weeks Julian Chender MSOD, ACC has observed a client's leadership team meetings and began engaging each of the leadership team members in individual coaching sessions. It was a great idea until he realized he was playing into the dynamics of the leadership team! Parallel Process ‼️ is the phenomenon by which a consultant or consulting team mimics the behavior of the client system. In this case, the client's leadership team did a lot of 1:1 work but little collective work. They blocked and tackled in their respective lanes and gave updates in the leadership team meetings. This is an all-to-common practice for leaders, and one that keeps them from engaging as a team. And in working with the leaders individually, Julian ended up perpetuating their pattern. So, he helped them to reorganize. He shared his observations with the team and they decided to forego individual coaching in favor of an additional leadership team meeting focused on governing the organization's strategy. They will still have their update meetings, but now they have a place to work together as a team on issues of shared concern. ~~~~ Is your leadership team functioning as a team or a group of independent workers managing different departments? At 11A Collaborative (11Acollaborative.com), our leadership team support is about more than alignment; it's about working together to make the decisions that guide the organization, bringing strategy to life on an ongoing basis. Reach out to learn more!

Drawing on insights from a range of field experts, “Reimagining Nonprofit Governance: How Did We Get Here? Where Might We Go Next?” provides historical context that shows how traditional governance models were designed in ways that are counterproductive to our aims, asks questions that allow us to reexamine assumptions about leadership and power, and gives examples of new modes of working together that chart a better path forward. https://lnkd.in/ehy6P2kK Laura Chen

Equity In The Center, on whose board I serve, is offering some inspired programming this quarter which may interest you and your teams! 1. Moving Towards Work: Senior Leaders Lever Tool. Apply for the Senior Leaders Community of Practice (SLCoP) by completing the form at the bottom of this page & Register for EiC' 4/17, 3:30-4:30p ET Senior Leaders Office Hours Session to get questions answered about the program 2. Learn more about the new Practitioners Community of Practice (PCoP). Apply now! Submissions due on 5/6. You can Register for EiC's 4/23, 3-4p ET Practitioners Office Hours Session to get questions answered about the program for institutional and solo race equity practitioners. 3. Complete EiC's short Interest Formand someone from EIC will follow up about programs and partnerships: https://lnkd.in/gqnUBCCy,

Mentor-mentee relationships aren't just for your nonprofit members, it's also needed in the workplace! Most importantly, it's starts with you. When you decide to be that mentor to one of your team members, remember... 1. You are an accountability partner 2. You will have to take the first step 3. It's not about you 4. Listen, listen, listen 5. Mentoring isn't just about work, it's about life Is there anything missing from this list you'd like to add?

When we took Decolonizing Management independent, we expanded the brief discussion of white supremacy's influence on the nonprofit sphere into a new module: Capitalism and Anti-Blackness. During the discussion period, NCC CEO Marina Martinez-Bateman (they/them) and their first cohort had a productive conversation on how orgs often expect marginalized people to act as mascots when they want to prove their DEI cred, then shut them down when their perspective as marginalized people leads them to suggest actions that are inconvenient to the organization. Check out this snippet on why equity committees don't work if the only goal is to have a meeting. Decolonizing Management is one of the few management training courses focused entirely on human-centered, anti-capitalist systems that is also taught by an experienced manager and mission-driven communicator. The 12-week course runs from August 6 - October 22 and the deadline to apply is Tuesday, July 30, so sign up now to be a part of a new way of doing good and doing business. https://lnkd.in/gaBAxzk7 #NonprofitManagement #NonprofitLeadership #ProfessionalDevelopment #leadershipdevelopment #managementtraining #antiracistleadership

For my nonprofit friends, “in the midst of all this turmoil and confusion, when we cannot clearly see the path before us and when we feel trapped in a situation we cannot control” (Steven Charleston, Choctaw Nation). It’s OK for a while to not act and just sit with your emotions, calm yourself (meditation, avoiding the news, nature, being with loved ones), and find some semblance of a more solid footing. But for those of you who are leading organizations and cannot withdraw and must instead reassure staff, board, clients, etc., the following article link may offer some guidance. #Nonprofit #Leadership #Managingtransition