Programs for Community Groups and Organizations
Would you like your organization or group increase their capacity to:
- Identify the diverse, untapped pools of "everyday" (informal) leaders and potential leaders that exist around the organization?
- Identify ways to develop the leadership of the informal and potential leaders connected with the organization?
- Support and retain these diverse grassroots leaders?
- Integrate leadership development activities into the organization's ongoing programs?
- Build networks with other community organizations trying to increase the participation of grassroots leaders?
NLI can help!
NLI Programs for Community Groups and Organizations
NLI offers presentations, workshops and retreats; customized assistance; coaching and support to help community organizations, committees and boards recruit, support, and retain emerging leaders from under-represented groups. And it helps community organizations find new ways to promote leadership development through their own programs.
Developing All the Leaders We Need: From "Scarcity" to "Abundance"
The key job of a leader is not to develop followers, but to develop more leaders.
- What if your organization had all the diverse leadership it needed?
- What if you didn't need to go searching for those leaders, but could find them among the people already connected to your organization?
Most organizations ignore one of their greatest assets: the large, untapped pool of "everyday" (informal) leaders that already exist right around them. This workshop helps participants recognize, nurture and tap these pools of creativity and talent, while simultaneously furthering their organization's mission and goals.
In this interactive workshop, participants:
- Examine their assumptions about leadership and explore some new ways to think about leadership and leadership development
- Map their own leadership journeys and extract lessons to help develop others' leadership
- Learn about "developmental leadership" and the key attributes and skills of developmental leaders
- Connect leadership development to organizational commitments to diversity and inclusion.
- Recognize the leadership development work they are already doing and gain ideas for how to strengthen that work
- Assess and strengthen their own leadership development skills
- Identify when, where and how "developmental leadership" can help them achieve personal and organizational goals
- Develop a plan for applying these principles and skills in their work.
