Nonprofit leadership expert Mary Gladstone-Highland will share a comprehensive collection of tools and best practices to improve your leadership skills and advance your career. You will finish the program with a renewed passion for leadership and an understanding of the essential technical skills required to oversee a program, department, or organization.
Benefits of Certification
- Take your organization to the next level
- Navigate uncertainties
- Master the technical aspects of leadership
- Accelerate your career
Training Overview
Earn Your Nonprofit Leadership Certification. Benefit from technical guidance and lead your team.
As your organization navigates the persistent pandemic, faces hiring and retention problems, and adapts for the future, now is a pivotal time to invest in professional development.
Some nonprofit leaders are extraordinary—they consistently accomplish their organizations’ missions, earn the respect of their teams, better their communities, and transform the world. To accomplish this goal, you must understand and embrace the technical aspects of leadership, including conducting organizational assessments, improving your team’s effectiveness, and measuring the benefits of every decision.
Our Leadership Certification program will enable you to:
- Take your organization to the next level
- Navigate uncertainties
- Master the technical aspects of leadership
- Accelerate your career
Nonprofit Leadership Certification Program
Session 1: Developing An Effective Leadership Style
- Situational leadership and its benefits leaders
- Leadership style assessment
- Competing values framework
- Cohort networking opportunity
- Understanding your leadership assessment results
- Creating an individualized plan
Session 2: Organizing Successful Teams
- Team dynamics
- Designing strategic teams that set up staff for success
- Employee motivation
- How to reduce turnover and increase job satisfaction and productivity
Session 3: The Importance Of Strategy
- Moving from a culture of reactivity to proactivity
- Six plans every organization needs:
- Strategic plan
- Fund development plan
- Annual programmatic calendar
- Budgeting process
- Succession plan
- Emergency plan
Session 4: Building A Network Of Support
- Building blocks of a diversified funding portfolio:
- Individual donors
- Major donors
- Foundations and grants
- Planned giving
- Earned income
- Capitalizing on stakeholder relationships
Session 5: Casting Your Organization’s Vision
- Why vision is critical
- Creating a communications plan
- Choosing your target audience
- Storytelling techniques and best practices
Session 6: How To Manage And Leverage Organizational Conflict
- Causes of organizational conflict
- How to resolve conflict
- Using conflict resolution skills to increase social impact
Who Should Attend?
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Expert Presenter
Mary Gladstone-Highland
- Certified Nonprofit Professional
- Fourteen years of experience leading organizations
- Graduate of the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University
- Master of Public Administration
- Certificate in Advanced Study in Conflict and Collaboration
- Certified Fund Raising Executive
- Has raised over $3.4 million for numerous organizations over the past five years
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