DISC profiling and team development for nonprofits
Your team constantly misreads each other — intentions are misinterpreted, communication styles clash, and the same conflicts keep recurring.
What you'll achieve
A team with shared insight into individual working styles and a practical framework for communicating, collaborating, and resolving tension more effectively.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Administer DISC profiles with your team, facilitate a session to explore the results together, and translate the insights into practical team agreements and management guidance.
Key deliverables
- Individual DISC profiles, team profile report, facilitated team session, communication style guide, manager briefing, recommended follow-up applications.
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Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership into Practice
An article on a 2-year learning community, from 2008 to 2010, in which leaders of 27 California civic participation nonprofits tried shared leadership. It reports results, such as 78 percent of participants growing their ability to develop staff as leaders. It names 4 preconditions: senior commitment, upfront planning time, sound basic management and clear accountability. It then describes 4 areas of change: leader mindsets and roles, structure, decision processes and culture.
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Executive Team Effectiveness Toolkit
A free set of tools for nonprofit chief executives and their senior teams. It contains a CEO checklist for managing the executive team, an interdependence and stakes matrix for picking the decisions the team should own, key questions on team composition, meeting agenda templates with wrap-up and written update formats, and steps for agreeing team behavioural norms with examples. CEOs and consultants use it to review and restructure how the top team works.
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