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 Course Information & Schedule
Certification Requirements:
The series consists of twelve (12) half-day session conducted
over an academic year. Students are encouraged to take the session in
consecutive order and to complete the series in one term. Participants are
required to complete ten (10) of the twelve (12) sessions for certification.
NOTE: The Nonprofit Leadership Certificate
program is now offered over a full academic year (September - April),
allowing for less time out of the office with just 1-2 sessions per month.
Session 1: The Nonprofit Difference
Session 2: The Mission of Leadership
Session 3 & 4: Leadership Styles (DiSC
Session 5 & 6: Leadership Strengths (Strengthsfinder)
Session 7: Living Leadership
Session 8: Ethics of Leadership
Session 9: Leading & Developing People & Teams
Session 10: Values of Leadership
Session 11: Leading Change
Session 12: The Journey of Leadership
Session 1:
The Nonprofit Difference
Date: Friday, September 16, 2011, 8:45 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Cynthia B. Nunn
Discussion and activities explore the nonprofit difference --how the history and culture of 501(c)(3) organizations impact the art of leadership, with a focus on governance structures and the respective roles of the nonprofit chief executive and volunteer board leadership.
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Session 2:
The Mission of Leadership
Date: Friday, September 23, 2011, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Tom Pearce
What are the most current and viable theories of leadership for today's nonprofit CEO? This session takes a look at key concepts and their application within nonprofit culture.
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Session 3 & 4:
Leadership Strengths (Strengthsfinder)
Date: Friday, October 7, 2011, 9 am to 3 pm
Instructor: Nadine Bell
This session centers on creating a personal-professional development and action plan for cultivating individual leadership style and values. Emphasis is on leading from strengths, self-care for integration and balance, authenticity, modeling healthy leadership, and time/energy management.
NOTE: This is an all-day session and counts as two credits.
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5 & 6:
Leadership Styles (DiSC)
Date: Friday, October 21, 2011, 9 am to 3 pm
Instructor: Buzz
Kolbe
Honest assessment of our behaviors can support our engagement with the complementary strengths of those on our team for maximum effect. This session’s activities help identify the strengths and behaviors that shape leadership style and can be molded for greater impact.
NOTE: This is an all-day session and counts as two credits.
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Session 7:
Living Leadership
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Jan Langbein
Discussion and activities center around cultivating and communicating values such as passion for the mission, trust, integrity, inclusiveness, and accountability, and acquiring skills to advocate in the public interest. Focus is on the continuum of practices nonprofit leaders may engage in to legally and effectively raise the profile of constituents and issues served by their organizations.
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Session 8:
Ethics of Leadership
Date: Friday, December 9, 2011, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Carol Clyde
The role of nonprofit organizations has been described as speaking for minority voices within a democratic society, ensuring representation of concerns that might otherwise be silent or powerless (Lester Salomon). Recent public alarm about corporate and nonprofit accountability has undermined the belief that principled leadership naturally follows from lofty missions. Nonprofit leaders frequently face decisions about significant value conflicts, as well as choices among alternatives that are equally justifiable, or about situations that entail significant consequences for their agency’s assorted stakeholders. This session includes discussion of ethical leadership practices, including stewardship of resources for mission fulfillment, values-based decision-making, and establishing an ethics-based organizational culture.
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Session 9:
Leading & Developing People & Teams
Date: Friday, January 13, 2012, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Peter DeLisle
Discussion and activities focus on developing the leader as coach,
transferring ownership to a working team and managing conflict.
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Session 10:
Values of Leadership
Date: Friday, February 10, 2012, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Maria
Dixon
Honoring organizational values is fundamental to the vitality of a nonprofit’s mission and its culture. Leading a diverse workforce requires today’s leaders to cultivate and communicate passion for the mission, trust, integrity, inclusiveness, and accountability, ensuring a deliberate articulation and practice of these values as vital to the health of the organization.
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Session 11:
Leading Change
Date: Friday, March 9, 2012, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Peter DeLisle
Community conditions change and yesterday's assumptions and practices no longer work. Innovation is needed, and innovation means change -- and transition. This session focuses on the skills, resources and practices nonprofit CEOs can access in order to anticipate and adapt with agility. Emphasis is on ways to leverage change from the CEO's pivotal placement --between board and staff, as well as between internal operations and external performance.
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Session 12:
The Journey of Leadership
Date: Friday, April 13, 2012, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Cynthia T. Johnson
Accessing our effectiveness as leaders means addressing with depth and accuracy questions posed by philosopher Parker Palmer: “Who is the self that engages in leadership? How does this self impact the practice of leadership, for good and bad?” This session introduces reflective practices that support a healthy relationship between one’s “talk” and one’s “walk” as a leader.
Activities address the personal-professional commitment to leadership as "joining of soul and role," practicing integrity through aligning values, and making the inner journey along with outer decisions and responsibilities.
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