Partners in Leadership

This program provides 6 credits toward CAE Certification/recertification.

Agenda

• Welcome and announcements

• Description of the program content and desired outcomes for the program

• Facilitated discussion of individual expectations for the day’s outcomes. This identifies specific areas the participants would like to cover. The program content is dynamically adjusted to accommodate expressed needs.

• The association management environment – things that make it challenging for leaders

• Presentation

• Participants are encouraged to identify specific organizational management challenges they face together. Interactive discussion determined by what they identify.

• The Governance Gavotte – Partners in the Dance

  • Collaborative Leadership

  • Different but equal stakes

  • Differences in your respective “real job” work environments and management practices

• When Vision Becomes Delusion

  • Desire and direction meet operational realities

• Communicating and Working Together

  • Interactive partnered exercise with group debrief on learned outcomes

• It’s all about outcomes

  • Shared but role-specific oversight of outcomes and of process

• Who’s Job Is It?

  • Functional Accountabilities, Roles and Responsibilities

  • Lines of demarcation and intersection

  • Rules of thumb for highest and best use of human resources

  • The Board and You – individually and together

• Best practices for preventing and addressing problems…

  • With each other

  • With board and other elected/appointed leaders/groups

  • With member-staff relations

• Open Ended Segment. We’ll explore in more depth any aspect of the leader partnership or its challenges the participants would like to discuss. This can be an “as time permits” option or a specifically planned and timed segment.

• Facilitated wrap-up discussion of the day’s outcomes.

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