Human Resources Training Tailored to Your Nonprofit’s Needs

At Third Sector New England, we see supervision as a positive, a way of building the effectiveness of non-profit organizations through staff, the greatest asset for any organization. We work with nonprofits to train supervisors and build a culture that values supervision. Our on-site training, offered as individual sessions or as a series, will help ensure that your organization develops a culture of supervision where:

• Regular, planned supervision is the norm.
• Supervisors are trained and coached so that can meet needs of staff.
• Best practices are reflected in systems from job postings through performance reviews.
• The organizational culture values supervision and provides the tools that supervisors AND staff need, in order to make the most of their relationship can help everyone be more effective.

Following is just some of the training that we offer, and we will work with you to tailor our human resources training to the needs of your nonprofit, your group of nonprofits or for foundations providing training for grantees.

The Adaptive Supervisor

Effective supervision contributes directly to organizational mission effectiveness. It is critical to maintaining a productive staff in the face of shifting and competing priorities. Strong supervision creates a culture of mutual respect in which employees and supervisors communicate regularly and clearly about job-related expectations, tasks and overall performance. Through this interactive training participants will: 

• Identify supervisory styles
• Learn to recognize what supervisory approaches are most effective under different conditions
• Consider when to be adaptive, and practice doing so
• Strengthen a variety of critical forms of supervisory communication
• Develop a plan for conducting individual supervisor meetings

Target audience:  New to highly experienced supervisors working at all levels of a non-profit organization

Creating a Culture of Supervision

In the non-profit sector we shy away from hierarchical terminology – words like supervisor and boss make us cringe. Yet we expect our managers to act like bosses – to hire, orient and train staff. They need to set goals, monitor performance and address personnel issues.

Creating an organizational culture that values supervision and provides tools supervisors and staff need in order to make the most of their relationship can help everyone be more effective. This workshop will help you:

• Explore the value of supervision
• Identify elements of effective supervision
• Plan specific steps to take in establishing expectations for supervisors

Target audience: Human resources staff, executive directors and others responsible for establishing and maintaining organizational culture 

Human Resources Management

This participatory workshop focuses on developing culturally competent employee relations skills and implementing human resources practices and procedures that are aligned with your organizational values. Join us as we: 

• Experiment with a tool designed to increase supervisors’ ability to meet individual employee needs
• Explore the critical nature of effective communication and maintaining productive supervisory relationships with staff
• Practice creating job descriptions, hiring and recruitment strategies, and performance reviews
• Craft professional development and reward and recognition systems/identify policy and compliance issues

Target audience: Human resources staff, executive directors and board members

For more information about these offerings, contact trainings@tsne.org or call 617.523.6565, ext. 209