Presentation and public speaking skills for nonprofits
Your staff and leaders avoid presenting — when they do, pitches fall flat, messages get lost, and the organisation punches below its weight in public.
What you'll achieve
Confident, compelling communicators who can hold a room, deliver a clear message, and represent your organisation with authority in any setting.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Design and deliver a tailored training programme combining presentation technique, message structuring, and live practice with individual feedback.
Key deliverables
- Training needs assessment, customised training session with live practice, individual feedback notes, message structure toolkit, follow-up coaching session.
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A Guide to Building a Successful Leadership Development Program
A step-by-step guide for organisations that design or fund leadership development programmes. It draws on evaluations of the fellowship programmes run by Schusterman and the Rockwood Leadership Institute. It sets out 5 recommendations: make space for openness, develop emotional intelligence, build relationships on purpose, design a sound coaching approach and promote collaboration across sectors. It also includes a programme-building checklist, evaluation findings and further reading on equity in leadership development.
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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
A practical handbook on adaptive leadership for people leading change in organisations and communities. It builds on Heifetz's Leadership Without Easy Answers and Leadership on the Line. Using stories, diagrams, cases and worksheets, it helps readers tell technical problems from adaptive challenges, diagnose the system and themselves, and act when change meets resistance. Readers use the exercises alone or with a team to plan interventions and build their own leadership practice.
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