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Are you working with a group or coalition toward a common goal?

Trying to support a team to get the most out of their work together?

Not sure how to handle challenging situations in a meeting? How to encourage commitment and participation among participants?

Looking to build greater confidence in your general group management skills?

This interactive workshop is designed to take some of the mystery out of basic group management processes and help you facilitate teams toward success. Come to a workshop for program staff, volunteers and board members in the non-profit sector designed to support you and your agency to:

• Get more out of your meetings
• Work effectively with coalitions to set and achieve collective goals, and
• Decide when to lead and when to facilitate

Participants Will Learn:

Is your work in a non-profit agency draining your energy?

Do you have too much to do and not enough time to spend looking after yourself and your needs?

Do you treat every request and issue as a top priority?

Do you find it difficult to say no?

Do you need renewed energy and vitality?

This interactive workshop is designed as an introduction and refresher to self awareness and techniques for taking care of self. Come to a workshop for leaders in the non-profit sector designed to pamper you and provide the space for you to:

• Reflect - on the mixed emotions that often comes with work in the non-profit sector
• Realign - with your vision of what is important to you and why
• Rejuvenate - by connecting with yourself and others

Participants Will Learn:

Is your non-profit agency serving your community? How do you know?

Do you know why there is a purpose, vision and mission in organizations?

How do you get your Board and Staff to share in your agency's vision and future?

Do you need to improve the skills to meet the changes facing your non-profit agency?

This interactive workshop is designed as an introduction to strategic planning with hands-on experience in using techniques to meet the future. Come to a workshop for leaders in the non-profit sector that is designed to help you develop a way to envision the future while providing the space to practice strategic planning techniques:

Reflect - on the challenges and opportunities in the non-profit sector
Realign - with your vision of what is important to you and why
Realize , the future by connecting with yourself and others in learning the art of strategic planning

Participants Will Learn:

This workshop will focus on how to analyse the policy impact and implications of issues identified in community-based research, needs assessments, consultations, front-line networks and other community forums. It will show how to develop practical policy alternatives and recommendations to address pressing issues.

Participants Will Learn:

• understand what drives public policy and political decisions;
• define and frame policy issues;
• analyze policy options to address particular problems, and assess their impacts and implications;
• develop concrete and workable policy recommendations.

Who Should Attend:

• Community members, researchers, practitioners and others involved in community-based research
• Community service providers and others who need to make cases to government and other decision-makers on policy issues
• Researchers, community service providers and others interested in developing policy alternatives to address problems in their communities
• Policy makers

Are you without the financial skills to plan and oversee the financial management of a new programme or project?

• Do you need to learn how to construct a reasonable budget?
• Do you need to understand the definitions of basic financial terms?
• Can you develop a simple operating budget?
• Can you read a financial statement?
• Do you understand operating assumptions behind the lines in a budget?

In order to manage funding in an ethical and responsible manner, proper financial management systems need to be developed and maintained. Come to this interactive workshop and acquire the understanding and confidence to make full use of financial management tools.

Participants Will Learn:

Literature reviews can be an important place to start when developing new programs, services, research projects and/or proposals. They give us a sense of "what is already out there" and "best practices" in the field. Conducting thorough literature reviews however, can be a daunting task. Come and learn some tips for beginning your search, collecting relevant literature and synthesizing your findings.

Participants Will Learn:

In this interactive and experiential workshop managers, supervisors, and directors will have a chance to better understand what power is and to share with others in similar positions their feelings of power and powerlessness vis a vis their boards. Through learning about sources of personal and structural power and about how to leverage them participants will come to feel more self confident and able to make a positive difference in the board room. Issues that will be addressed include the impact of scarce resources, gender differences in power dynamics and the legacy of the founder.

Pat Bradshaw is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at York University and formerly Director of the MBA Program and Chair of the York Senate. Her research interests include the study of organizational power and politics, women in management and nonprofit boards of directors. Pat has consulted with a numerous nonprofit organizations doing governance workshops, team building for boards and staff and training programs on change management and critical thinking skills.She is currently on the board of ARNOVA and previously on the board of Altruvest Charitable Services.