Training
workshops and seminars offer a variety of topics
Whalen &
Associates offers an interesting variety of topics to motivate and
challenge your board of directors, staff, employees, organizations
or participants at your conference or seminar. The following seminars
can be customized to fit your allotted time and schedule. They can
be condensed into a keynote presentation or conducted as a half-day
or full-day workshop.
Current topics
include:
- Strategic
Planning: Making It Work for Your Organization
- Offers an overview of the strategic planning process
-- from the basics of planning the project to developing
the plan, including implementation and measuring the results.
Participants will learn effective tips, strategies and ideas
to help ensure the project is successful and the strategic
plan is implemented.
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- The
Value of Values - To be truly successful,
an organization must adhere to its core values and beliefs
-- especially during difficult times. Recent high profile
news events have proven this to be more true than ever.
This seminar helps participants to define the core values
that guide their organization, explore circumstances that
may cause these values to be in conflict and develop a plan
to live by the core values.
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- Integrating
Leadership Styles -
We all have our own leadership style.
The trick is to successfully utilize the various styles
to imporve the decision making of boards of directors and
maximize the talents of employees, managers and volunteers.
This seminar is appropriate for leaders in both the nonprofit
and private sector. By knowing the strengths of each style,
leaders can build more effective boards and teams.
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- Facilitation:
A Delicate Balancing Act - Designed
to acquaing participants with the key concepts of facilitation,
techniques, situations in which facilitation is useful,
skill sets required, and the difference between facilitation
and training. Includes a variety of hands-on activities.
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- The
Value of Collaboration - Designed to
acquaint participants with the key concepts of collaboration,
reasons to collaborate, situations in which collaboration
is useful, real world examples, skill set required, characteristics
of successful collaborative relationships, the importance
of knowing core values before entering a collaborative relationship,
the role of technology, pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Includes a variety of hands-on activities.
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- Leading
With Vision Mobilizes Inspired Action
- It is all about where you want to go. VIsion is the driving
force that motivates us to take action. Leaders are driven
by their vision of the future. But how do you convince others
of your vision? How do you communicate your vision? How
you articulate your vison impacts your access to venture
capital and funders and your relationship with your bank,
employees, customers and prospects. This seminar helps you
to get a clear picture of your vision for your future and
to develop the framework to articulate it clearly to your
team and outside supporters.
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- Governance:
The Sticky Wicket for Boards of Directors
- Maximizing the talents of the Board of Directors
has always been a challenge for organizations. Managing
the role of the Board has proven to be even more challenging.
Recent events have caused outsiders to increasingly scrutinize
the role and effectiveness of boards. This seminar explores
the role of the board in the context of today's inquiring
public. It looks at accountability, governance structures,
recruitment, responsibilities, orientation of new board
members, legal remaifications, oversight and a number of
other issues.
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- Volunteerism:
The Backbone of American Society -
This inspiring presentation explores the role that volunteerism
has played and continues to play in building American society.
We all have skills and talents that can be shared to benefit
others. Business has also been a leader in sharing its expertise
to improve American society. Ideal as a keynote presentation
for nonprofit organizations that rely on volunteers to spread
their mission and implement their programs.
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- Careers
in Association Management - A hidden
employment field exists in the over 150,000 local, state,
national and international associations that represent almost
every industry and interest. These organizations need people
will skills in management, communications, public relations,
government relations, finance, human resources, information
technology, law, adult education, meeting planning,and marketing.
This seminar acquaints participants with the field of association
management, the types of activities involved, skill sets
desired and tips for determining if the field is the right
fit.
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Any of the listed
seminars can be customized to fit your time constraints.
For more information
about our seminar and workshop services, CONTACT
US.
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