Training Workshops
There is nothing more critical to an organization's success than the development of its leaders. We work to unlock the potential within leaders to build powerful & effective organizations, using educational workshops and internal one-on-one technical assistance. We provide customized, in-house workshops designed to meet your specific educational needs. An array of topics is available to cover proven methods as well as new trends, explore critical issues, and that teach useful tools and techniques applied to real life circumstances.
Examples of workshops available include;
• The Exceptional Board
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Board of Directors
• Board Development - Building an Effective Board
• Board Governance
• Creating a Culture of Inquiry
• Board & Staff Partnerships
• Board Engagement in Fund Raising
• Board Chair Leadership
• Succession Planning
• Fund Raising 101
“Comments from board members are still being made and are very positive. Thank you for making it interesting, your input, your confidentiality and willingness to be a sounding board.”
Strategic Planning
ccbozard consulting will work with you to develop strategic direction for your organization, with goals and measurable outcomes. The plan will insure uniformity of purpose as well as both internal and external enthusiasm and commitment to the organization and its strategies. As a result, your Board of Directors and staff will have clearer direction and structure for its efforts.
Strategic planning is…
a tool for finding the best future for your organization and the best path to reach that destination.
prioritization of the path to achieve a desired future.
a dynamic document that lends flexibility which allows an organization to anticipate change and prepare for it.
a way to ensure that the organization’s long-term vision will be achieved.
Together we will:
• Establish a clear vision, mission & values
• Conduct your initial planning assessment
• Identify overall goals and measurable objectives
• Work with staff and board members to create operational management plans
• Prepare a final, practical, functional plan
“Colleen understands nonprofit organizations and can lead a board or staff through a fun learning and planning session that produces real results.”
Executive Transitions
Leadership transitions are often viewed as one of the most challenging phases in the life span of a nonprofit. A nonprofit's ability to sustain effective leadership during planned and unplanned transitions is vital! Succession planning is typically seen as a matter of replacing a person rather than building organizational capacity.
We can help with interim executive leadership as well as search SUPPORT for recruiting and hiring your next executive.
Interim Executive Directors are not simply board members or staff who sit in the executive director’s seat for a few weeks or months until a new director is found. Interim Executive Directors are highly skilled managers who temporarily take the helm of an organization, help the board and staff address important systems and capacity issues, and lay the groundwork for the permanent leader’s success.
ccbozard consulting can help with all
three phases of leadership transition:
• Preparing for emergency transitions.
• Strategic leadership development.
• Support through an executive search.
Not all organizations in transition require an interim Executive Director, but groups that do use one often emerge stronger, more financially sound, and with high levels of optimism about the future.
“Colleen’s consulting positioned two organizations with identity and leadership issues as effective, mission-driven groups that now have an important impact on this community.
We could not have done it without her.”
MEETING FACILITATION
Our experienced and objective meeting facilitation has the intention of achieving consensus, a sense of moving forward and an action plan. We can facilitate executive and management retreats, critical issues meetings, sensitive discussions, staff and board retreats, and community outreach and focus groups.
“Colleen gets results! She connects well with people and engages them in helping to determine the direction which best fits the organization.”