Next Gen Leadership: Understanding the Skills Needed to Be an Effective Leader

Wednesday, January 26 at 1:00 p.m. ET | 6:00 p.m. GMT | Mark Rovner, founder and principal, Sea Change Strategies

Today’s increasingly complex workplace prioritizes three important leadership skills: curiosity, empathy, and humility. Traditional “command and control” models of leadership are increasingly ineffective, if not downright counterproductive. Working to hit certain targets will need to take a back seat to creating conditions for success.

Join Mark Rovner for this engaging webinar as he breaks down:

• The top three skills today’s leaders need to master
• How to apply these skills in everyday situations
• Why traditional management models are no longer effective

Setting Yourself (and Your Candidates) Up for Success in the Hiring Process

Thursday, February 3 at 11:00 a.m. ET | 4:00 p.m. GMT | Deb Taft, CEO, Lindauer Global

Filling an open position is not just about posting a job description with a list of responsibilities, conducting interviews, and sending out an offer to your favorite candidate. Hiring a new employee who will bring value to and grow with your organization requires a thoughtful strategy that starts before you start typing up that job description.

Deb Taft, CEO of one of the world’s leading executive search firms focused on nonprofits, will share strategies for designing and managing your hiring and onboarding process for success, including:

• Defining and aligning on role responsibilities and requirements
• Reducing hiring bias and crafting an effective interview process
• Ensuring that new employees are set up for success on day one

Best Practices for Creating and Managing Your Team's Goals

Wednesday, February 9 at 2:00 p.m. ET | 7:00 p.m. GMT | Damaris Herron-Watkins, director of finance and administration, A Better Chance

Setting and managing goals should not just be a top-down, check the box exercise. Done thoughtfully, it’s an important activity that helps prioritize work, aids in decision making, fosters teamwork, and measures success.

In this informative webinar, Damaris Herron-Watkins will pull from her extensive nonprofit finance executive experience to teach you:

• How to drive engagement and set up conditions for success through the goal-setting process
• Ways to collaboratively create and set effective S.M.A.R.T goals
• How to conduct impactful check-ins to track progress throughout the year

Strategies for Giving Effective Feedback That Helps Your Employees Grow

Wednesday, February 16 at 1:00 p.m. ET | 6:00 p.m. GMT | Monica Mutter, senior director, leadership and culture, Blackbaud

Giving feedback is one of the more difficult parts of managing people, but it’s a critical skill for helping employees grow. Whether you need to give an employee feedback on a specific task or overall performance, there are strategies for ensuring it’s crafted in a way that allows for growth.

Join Monica Mutter as she talks through:

• The neuroscience of feedback
• The steps for properly preparing and delivering feedback
• How to reset expectations and include your employee in the feedback process

Growing Your Impact through Employee Development

Tuesday, February 22 at 12:00 p.m. ET | 5:00 p.m. GMT | Dorri McWhorter, president and CEO, YMCA Metropolitan Chicago; Bruce MacDonald, president and CEO, Imagine Canada; Jon Walder, HR director, Blackbaud

We all know that employee development is important, but it’s easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day or delay establishing an effective employee and leadership development program. However, prioritizing the development of your organization’s future leaders can have big payoffs.

Join Jon Walder, Dorri McWhorter, and Bruce MacDonald as they discuss:

• Why employee and leadership development are important priorities in their organizations
• How to identify employees who could be the future leaders within your organization
• What successful employee development programs look like

Leading Teams Through Technology Implementations

Wednesday, March 9 at 1:00 p.m. ET | 6:00 p.m. GMT | Michael Reardon, Ph.D., senior principal business consultant, Blackbaud

Technology implementations can be challenging—especially when it comes to training and getting folks to actually use the system. The good news? It doesn’t have to be so challenging—and a big part of implementation success comes from leaders implementing effective change management processes.

Join Michael Reardon, Ph.D., as he delineates:

• The steps managers need to take to successfully onboard teams and maintain engaged users
• How to empower teams to successfully leverage new tech investments
• How change management principles influence coaching through change—whether it’s for a tech solution or not

Work/Life Balance in a Hybrid Workplace: How to Model and Operationalize It at Your Organization

Tuesday, March 15 at 2:00 p.m. ET | 7:00 p.m. GMT | Beth Kanter, author of The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit

The past few years have exacerbated burnout in the workplace—where people experience exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy due to increased workloads and longer hours. Burnout is an organizational responsibility that requires attention to employees’ sense of community at work, work-life balance, and work environment.

Join Beth Kanter, nonprofit thought leader, virtual facilitator, and author of The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit for an interactive webinar session during which you’ll learn:

• How to build your personal wellbeing
• How to model work-life balance and operationalize it at your organization
• What the latest research reveals about work-life balance challenges—and how to get your team from languishing to flourishing

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