• Middle, upper and senior-level executives of nonprofit organizations who lead teams
• Leaders who must motivate and energize others in an organizational setting

• Think strategically about the people resources of your organization
• Learn to communicate your values to all stakeholders
• Understand the importance of a leadership succession plan for the paid and volunteer leaders of your organization

Seeking to Understand: The Leadership Essentials for Developing High-Performers

Leadership practices and access to knowledge greatly influence workplace performance and success. High performance is dependent on clarity and trust in the leader’s vision. It is the leader’s job to foster trust, manage expectations, make the mission meaningful and invite the employees in to the conversation. Empowered performers increase ownership, in turn, enhancing performance.

• Discuss your own organizational and leadership barriers to high performance
• Explore the common leadership practices which will inspire confidence
• Analyze your role in “knowledge accessibility” within your organization
• Learn how to ensure that performance is employee-driven and employee-owned
• Ask clarifying questions about your own team: who has the “decision rights?” Who does the “heavy lifting?”
• Define and plan your “psychological contract of work”

Influence without Authority

• Explore the ethical implications of influence
• Develop new approaches to influencing others
• Apply concepts to current influence initiatives

Engaged: The Art & Science of Sustaining Motivation

• Gain keen insight into how to motivate people to do their best and keep their heads, hearts and hands engaged once they’ve come onboard
• Learn by leveraging insights from the social and behavioral sciences to offer strategies for how to prevent demotivating talent
• Discuss how to drive sustained engagement at every level of the organization
• Know how to transform your organization’s culture into a competitive advantage in the competition for top talent

Difficult Conversations

• Understand what makes confrontations in the work place difficult
• Master strategies for approaching confrontation, instead of avoiding it
• Practice and perfect your style of handling difficult conversations
• Learn to shift perspectives to a learning conversation

Elise Madrick Townsend - Academic Director; Senior Program Administrator

Gina Fong - Adjunct Lecturer of Marketing; Principal of Fong Insight

Loran Nordgren - Professor of Management & Organizations

Nicholas A. Pearce - Clinical Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management

Brooke Vuckovic - Clinical Professor of Leadership

Location

This program is delivered in a live virtual format via the Zoom platform. Please visit our live virtual programs page for more information.

In-Person Nonprofit Management Programs are held at Northwestern University's Chicago Campus.

Wieboldt Hall
340 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Directions

Chicago Campus Parking Map - Please Note: the Huron Superior Parking A lot and the Erie Ontario Parking C & D lots are available to the public and should be used when attending programs at Wieboldt Hall.

Application Deadline

The deadline for registration is 10:00 am one business day prior to the program start date.

Scholarship Assistance

Up to 50% scholarships are available for all of our nonprofit executive education programs for those working in nonprofit organizations. All applications are initially submitted at the full list price. Each is reviewed by our registrar and any scholarships granted will be reflected in the amount applied to your invoice or charged to your credit card.

Hospitality during the Program

We strive to provide healthy meal choices for our participants for breakfast, lunch and breaks. We typically provide a range of choices, including some vegetarian-friendly and gluten-avoidant selections. We cannot meet all dietary preferences, but we will do our best to accommodate health restrictions, religious restrictions and food allergies.

Accommodations

Participants are responsible for booking their hotel accommodations during their stay in Chicago.

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Cancellation Policy:

Participants must notify the Program Manager five business days in advance of the program start date if they are unable to attend. Otherwise, participants will be charged 20% of the stated program fees.

When canceling a program registration, participants may choose to rollover their payment to a future program or receive a refund. Participants are allowed three rollovers, after the third rollover, participants forfeit the money paid to the Center for Nonprofit Management.

*Refund or rollover must be requested at the time of the program cancellation. Once a program payment has been rolled over, a monetary refund is no longer an option. The participant must continue with the rollover process.