Leadership Development Seminar Benefits

The Leadership Development Seminar is an affordable and accessible, yet powerful, leadership development opportunity for mid-to-senior level staff, executive directors and board members. Because the Leadership Development Seminar complements and builds on the Better Nonprofit Management Training Series, participants gain practical skills and knowledge, while immediately putting them to use.

Participants in the program:

  • Gain valuable insight into what it takes to be an effective non-profit leader
  • Increase self-awareness and enhance leadership strengths and skills
  • Understand why adaptive leadership is necessary for today’s turbulent environment
  • Learn to take a systems view and find new ways to assess organizational issues, foster teamwork, address conflict and much more
  • Build knowledge and skill in specific areas of interest through Better Non-profit Management workshops
  • Learn from diverse mentors and develop a peer-support network
  • Put learning into practice immediately through implementing a specific action plan

... as well as receive a Certificate of Completion upon attending all sessions and completion of requisite assignments.

The Leadership Development Seminar exemplifies TSNE’s perspective on leadership: share leadership responsibility broadly though an organization; emphasize diversity and inclusion; take a whole-systems perspective; build connections beyond an organization’s walls; and most importantly, have a meaningful community impact.

Benefits for Participants

  • An integrated curriculum that combines training and application
  • A cohort of peers and a team of emerging leaders with whom to work closely
  • Support and accountability for the application of what’s learned
  • Introduction to cutting-edge concepts around leadership, including understanding the difference between management and leadership

Outcomes

  • Demonstrating the ability to initiate change within an organization
  • Building and maintaining relationships with peers
  • Working across regional boundaries