Team retreat design and facilitation for nonprofits
Your team operates in silos, barely has time to think strategically together, and lacks the relational trust needed to make hard decisions collectively.
What you'll achieve
A team that is better aligned, more trusting, and equipped with shared tools and agreements for working together more effectively.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Design a retreat that balances strategic work with relationship-building, drawing on pre-retreat interviews to ensure the agenda addresses what actually matters.
Key deliverables
- Pre-retreat interviews and agenda design, facilitated retreat, post-retreat summary of decisions and actions, team working agreements, recommended follow-up rhythm.
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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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