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EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Impact Collaborative works with executive directors to increase their success as organizational leaders.
For individual executive directors who want to improve their management skills we provide one-on-one coaching services. For membership organizations or funders that want to build the leadership capacity of the organizations they serve or fund, we run workshops focusing on specific aspects of leadership development, coaching for grantees or members and executive growth groups that provide a combination of peer support, mentorship and targeted discussions about specific managerial issues.
Recently, Impact Collaborative has entered into a partnership with Bates Consulting. This partnership was formed to provide services that would increase the capacity of nonprofit executive directors. Visit Executive Partners to learn more about the services offered by this collaborative.
Coaching Services
Our one-on-one coaching process, targeted toward executive directors or other top managers, involves:
- working with executive directors or deputy directors to define the areas they want to work on during coaching sessions
- meeting weekly or monthly to focus on desired areas of growth, specific challenges or crises that need resolution
- using goal-setting and targeted exercises between coaching sessions to continue work on specific behaviors or to achieve discrete goals
- periodically evaluating the results achieved through the coaching process, with an eye to deciding whether the work has accomplished the desired goals.
Executive Growth Groups
Executive growth groups bring together 8 to 12 nonprofit executives and 1 or 2 experienced mentors who volunteer their time on a pro bono basis. These groups offer nonprofit executives who are grappling with similar challenges an opportunity to benefit from each other's experiences as well as the chance to learn from the wisdom of experienced nonprofit mentors. They also provide participants with a trusted coterie of peer advisors to whom they can turn between meetings. We have seen firsthand the impact of such groups and believe they offer a valuable management-development resource to small nonprofits that are resource-strapped and have little management depth.Once a membership organization or funder had decided that it wants to provide this resource to its members or grantees, we work with the sponsoring organization to structure the groups and find mentors, technical assistance providers and a group facilitator.
Workshops
Workshops focusing on executive leadership include:
- The Basics of Nonprofit Management
- Getting Started: a Workshop for First-Time Executive Directors
- Governing Well: The Basics of Effective Board Leadership
Workshops are customized to the needs, time frame, and budgets of our clients.