Workshops allow those in leadership and board positions to increase their capacity to serve and succeed. Participants will gain progressive, effective, collaborative, results-oriented and community-minded management skills and advice.
Workshop: Financial Risk
1. Financial Risk Management – Preventing Pain
This 3-hour seminar is designed specifically for CEOs and Board Chairs and Treasurers. During this workshop you will:
Understand just how vulnerable you and your organization are to financial deficiencies.
Be able to set up as financially secure operation as is practical.
Be able to review and make simple but powerful additional controls and safeguards to your current financial operations.
Be able to better manage your risk – and sleep better.
You’ll learn what you can and should do in plain language – by someone who’s been there.
Few things affect a non-profit organization more than financial difficulties resulting from inattention, sloppiness, and employee fraud. Reduce your risk with these simply implemented strategies and protocols.
Workshop: Measurable Results
2. The Future of Non-profits – Measurable Results
This 4-hour seminar is designed specifically for CEOs, Professional Staff, and Board Members. During this workshop you will:
Understand the importance of a new approach in measurements to your organization’s financial future – and that of your community.
Understand the current/conventional measurements versus the future measurements of success for your organization.
Be able to begin a process of creating and using benchmarks in your community and your organization.
Be aware of the future demands of, and able to communicate with, your major stakeholders in powerful ways they’ve been waiting to hear.
Be better able to establish your position in an increasingly competitive environment.
You’ll learn what you can and should do in plain language – by someone who’s been there.
Doing good is no longer enough. Stakeholders and community members have expectations for your organization to improve the long term well-being of its citizens and community.
Workshop: Board/CEO Relationships
3. Board/CEO Relationships – The New Expectations
This 4-hour seminar is designed specifically for CEOs and Board Members. During this Seminar you will:
Focus on the elements that will make your Board/CEO relationship successful, including:
- Diversity (from a functional perspective)
- Shared, strategic vision
- Relevant and measurable results
- Up-to-date policies and procedures
- Partnering with the right CEO
- Identifying the weaknesses that are keeping you from excellence
- Assessing the Board’s and the CEO’s performance
You’ll learn what you can and should do in plain language – by someone who’s been there.
It’s not a ‘one-person’ show – on either side. Making the Board/CEO relationship work – and it is work – is the key to the future of successful, non-profit organizations.
Who should sponsor a workshop?
We suggest one or more organizations consider sponsorship of the SPIDER workshops for a consortium of non-profit organizations in the community. While the topics are “on the money” and the cost of a workshop is most affordable, sharing that cost can make sponsorship even more attractive.
Why now?
Executive and Board leaders face new challenges in today’s non-profit environment. SPIDER’s workshops – geared to participation and learning by attendees – are all about wise money, operational, and strategic management for the 21st century. Today’s required communications, relationship-building, and operational requirements dictate the use of new, but easy to understand and simple to execute, ways to compete effectively.
