Dates: July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2025
Times: 1:00 - 2:15 PM ET
Cost: $80
Online via Zoom Meeting (Camera and audio enabled)
*Please note, all registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and presentation slides following the sessions. The recording will be available for 60 days.
The Practical Leadership Skills Series will include four interactive workshops.
Each workshop will last 75 minutes and include both presentation and interactive group exercises. Participants will leave the workshop with a practical skill that they can take back to their workplace and use immediately.
Four topics will be covered in the series:
1. How to conduct effective one-on-one meetings
2. Practical coaching and mentoring for non profit leaders
3. Practical team building for nonprofit leaders
4. How to lead without authority
Do you meet regularly with your staff? Do you find these meetings frustrating and a waste of time? While regular one-on-one meetings with staff can be the most effective way to build employee engagement, team morale, and improve performance they often devolve into ineffective “update” meetings.
In this interactive workshop participants will learn the five practices that drive effective one-on-ones. Participants will take part in exercises to develop their skills. Finally, they will learn how to avoid the four common pitfalls that derail one-on-ones. By the end of the session, you will have practical skills you can take back to your workplace.
Effective coaching and mentoring are critical to driving employee engagement and organizational performance. But as a nonprofit leader, coaching and mentoring can often seem to be a daunting and esoteric practice.
In this interactive workshop participants will learn the four practices that drive effective coaching and mentoring in the workplace. Participants will take part in exercises to develop their skills. Finally, they will learn how to identify situations when coaching and mentoring are not appropriate. By the end of the session, you will have practical skills you can take back to your workplace.
In a world of remote work and quiet quitting, building effective teams is one of the greatest challenges that nonprofit leaders face. But, to be successful, it is a challenge that nonprofit leaders must overcome.
In this interactive workshop participants will learn the twelve characteristics of the most successful teams, and how to build them in your workplace. Participants will take part in exercises to develop their skills. Finally, they will learn how to avoid the common pitfalls that undermine teams and team building. By the end of the session, you will have practical skills you can take back to your workplace.
Whether it is working on cross-functional teams, guiding volunteers or board members, or collaborating with colleagues from other organizations, as nonprofit leaders we often must lead in situations where we have no authority. This is particularly challenging for leaders used to highly structured organizations.
In this interactive workshop participants will learn the eight practices that drive successful collaborative leadership. They will also learn the four common pitfalls that derail nonprofit leaders when they try to lead without authority. By the end of the session, you will have practical skills you can take back to your workplace.
Our Presenter:
Having worked in the arts, health, social service, and education sectors, Mikhael Bornstein has more than twenty years of experience as a nonprofit leader.
Mikhael is an AFP Master Trainer and a frequent speaker at conferences across North America. He is the Director, Fundraising at Canadian Hearing Services, a Faculty Member of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, and teaches at George Brown College and Ryerson University.
Mikhael has a Master in Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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