WESTERN MOUNTAINS NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

This newly designed leadership program is open to up to 20 executive directors.

Take one or both two-day sessions. Both sessions will take place at the Auburn Public Library,and will run from 8:30am to 3:30pm.

• Session I: Sept. 10 & 11
• Session II: Sept. 17 & 18
  
  
• Fee: $75 for one 2-day session, $100 if registering for both 2-day sessions.

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Session I: September 10 & 11

September 10 - Powerful Presentations
This empowering workshop for beginning to advanced presenters combines training in good vocal technique with practice in giving clear, effective, and compelling presentations. Judy Ringer and Susan Losapio team up to help participants develop a more powerful presence, enhance confidence, and connect with an audience, regardless of the topic. You’ll learn simple kinesthetic exercises you can practice daily and use before, during, and after presentations. You will also be guided in the Four Defining Characteristics of a Powerful Presentation and have the opportunity to deliver several one-minute presentations on tape and receive individual coaching. Activities include:

• Speaking With Confidence and Presence
• Practicing the Four Characteristics of a Powerful Presentation
• Managing Your Mind and Body for Maximum Effectiveness
• Working With Your Audience
• Visual Learning Through Videotaped Mini-Presentations
• Group Discussion

Instructors:
Judy Ringer is the author of Unlikely Teachers: Finding the Hidden Gifts in Daily Conflict. She provides conflict and communication training throughout the U.S. and Canada with unique workshops based on mind/body principles from the martial art Aikido, in which she holds a black belt. Employing best practice communication models, Judy brings to life key concepts such as self-management under pressure and appreciation of other viewpoints. Her programs are interactive, experiential and energetic.

Susan Losapio, M.A. and founder of Losapio Training and Consulting, teaches sales training, communication, management and marketing, and delivers top-quality presentations throughout New England. She is Assistant Professor at Southern New Hampshire University, where she teaches Organizational Development and Public Speaking.

September 11 - Nonprofit Marketing Power:  How to Gain Essential Response, Resources and Support
New social media techniques and proven marketing disciplines are a power combination for nonprofit leaders seeking to sustain programs and services, meet growing needs and seize new opportunities. This session,led by Gary Stern, offers a mix of discussion and audio-visual presentations. You will develop a new understanding of marketing and new tools for success. Session materials will include complimentary excerpts from the forthcoming 3rd Edition of Marketing Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, a Fieldstone Alliance publication by Gary Stern and Elana Centor.  Session highlights:

• Marketing is a social media world
• How to set realistic and measurable marketing goals that guide planning and action
• Demystifying branding
• The “Six Ps of Marketing” – key concepts for traditional and e-marketing
• Identifying target audiences for outreach
• Ideas for cost-effective communications plans

Gary Stern is the president of Portland-based Stern Consulting International, specializing in governance, strategic planning, and marketing with nonprofits, associations and public sector institutions. He led the Drucker Foundation National Training team, is the author of numerous nonprofit guidebooks, and is a well-known national speaker and consultant. His Maine clients include Governor's Children's Cabinet, Healthy Maine Partnerships, Literacy Volunteers, Frannie Peabody Center, and the Quoddy, Great Auk, and Kennebec Estuary Land Trusts.

Session II: September 17 & 18

September 17 - Developing Strategic Alliances
Whether responding to external, uncontrollable and unanticipated circumstances or the result of strategic,long-term planning, the need for successful collaboration has never been stronger. Successful partnerships are proven to enhance effectiveness and visibility of non-profit organizations and programs. This session, led by Kathy Hunt, will help you integrate what you already know about the collaboration continuum with new learning, including negotiation skills, sharing risk and recognition, and realistically assessing organizational partner opportunities

Carole Martin is an independent consultant with deep expertise in making the most of the opportunities that accompany planned and unanticipated change. Her experience includes facilitating leadership transition, mergers and acquisitions; board recruitment, governance and strategic planning; and fostering highly successful and lasting collaborations. Carole’s approach emphasizes strong working relationships that are based upon trust.

September 18 - Assessing Your Board/Developing a New Governance Strategy
In our own lives, we know that any self-improvement plan requires us to acknowledge the problem, take ownership for solving it, and put a manageable strategy in place. The same is true when it comes to nonprofit boards of directors. Lectures by the board chair or nagging by the executive director have little impact, and it is not unusual for the board to struggle with some of the same governance issues year, after year, after year.  In this session you will get hands-on experience with MANP’s board self-assessment tool and guidance on how you can use it to help the board identify its own opportunities for growth and develop practical strategies that will result in a stronger board and a healthier organization. 

This session will include:

• Practical advice and tools you can use to make immediate and real change with your board. 
• A link to the on-line version of the self-assessment so that you can administer it to your own board. 
• The development of an action plan for helping your board construct its own “governance agenda.”

Jeff Wahlstrom is managing director of Starboard Leadership Consulting. He has more than 25 years of hands-on experience as a nonprofit leader, board member, and consultant to an extensive list of clients, large and small, throughout Maine. He regularly provides counsel to boards on governance best practices, succession and transition planning, crisis management, and strategic planning. Jeff developed MANP’s “Board Self-Assessment Tool,” and he is a frequent speaker on a wide range of board governance and nonprofit management topics.

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This program is funded by

THE BETTERMENT FUND and THE CUMMINGS TRUST