TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS

“Leadership Style-Preventing Heartaches and Headaches in Your Organization”

Everyone in an organization, regardless of their job “title” or level, is both a leader and a follower.  Leadership style is a person’s unique way of influencing others to work toward goals.  Individuals can demonstrate a variety of leadership styles, but most have a dominant style they feel comfortable using.  The objective of this session is assisting participants in gaining awareness of their leadership style, to appreciate the importance of “followership” and to discuss how both impact the success of any organization.  This session is appropriate for all professionals and volunteers in a community based organization who want to examine, develop and/or enhance their personal leadership and followership styles.

“The Resilient Leader”

Resiliency is defined as the capacity to spring back, rebound and successfully adapt in the face of adversity.  Resiliency is a way of facing and understanding the world.  It is a process, not a fixed, concrete state of being, and it can be learned and enhanced.  In today’s world of uncertainty and the inevitable “risks” associated with successfully fulfilling the mission of non-profit organizations, leaders must be resilient. Resilient leaders and organizations face reality with courage, find meaning in hardship and improvise when faced with seemingly impossible obstacles.  Resilient leadership is as much about “being” and “knowing” as it is “doing.” 

The goal of this workshop is to apply resiliency research and methodologies to enhance and strengthen the capacity of nonprofit leaders and the organizations they lead.  It is about moving beyond “survival” to successful significance.  Five core competencies and their subsequent “major messages” will be discussed in this interactive, informative and fun session:

• I AM – Self awareness and identification of leadership skills and core competencies
• I CAN – Identification of what is on the horizon and boundaries that exist or need to exist
• I HAVE – Examination of resources and abilities to “connect” for strength
• I WILL – Exploration of solution and improvisation skills
• I BELIEVE – Identification of goals and a belief in self and others for a successful future

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“Being” Who You Are – “Doing” Your Job

Many professionals are “drawn” to the non-profit sector because they want to make a difference or address a need.  They may have experienced personal pain and want to help others suffering from the same kind of experience.  There are many motivations and many individuals with varied skills making up prevention workforce.  Some of the questions that will be explored as a group and individually include: 

• Why are some who choose to work in prevention effective and others seem to have difficulty finding their way?
•  Why do so many begin with high energy and expectations leave in a few years tired, discouraged and burned out? 
• How can organizations attract and maintain a viable workforce who can meet the many demands placed on them? 
• How do we cope with the constant changes our field faces?
•  How do we as caring and dedicated professionals maintain a healthy balance in our lives and “be” who we are while we “do” our jobs? 

Using didactic and experiential methods, participants will be given the opportunity to explore their motivations and identify steps they can take to answer the “call” while maintaining a healthy balance in their lives.

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