
Tip #1065: How Effective Managers Set Employees Up for Success
This Tip provides a checklist of the actions that effective managers take to set their employees up for success. There is a lot written about
Equipping Nonprofit Leaders to Build Stronger Teams and Drive Lasting Impact
We provide management training for mid-sized nonprofits, teaching essential skills like delegation, motivation, and team building to improve employee retention and create a thriving workplace culture.
We have supported nonprofit organizations for the past 38 years. This includes working with nonprofit boards of directors to facilitate communication both internally and with the executive director. This also includes working with nonprofit executive directors to improve their leadership skills as well as the morale and performance of employees and volunteers
In addition to facilitating management training and board development services, Laurel and Associates, Ltd. offers employee development training to maximize employee effectiveness and minimize their stress. Our other services include curriculum design, train-the-trainer programs, and training audits.
Laurel and Associates, Ltd.’s Management and Team Development programs strengthen your leadership skills in areas like communication, delegation, motivation, and team building. We provide training that equips your managers to lead more effectively, fostering a productive and engaged workforce.
Laurel and Associates, Ltd.’s Management and Team Development programs are being converted into online training programs. We provide training that equips your managers to lead more effectively, by fostering a productive and engaged workforce.
You know how nonprofit executives often have high burnout levels because of heavy workloads and high expectations without support?
What we do is provide comprehensive leadership training and board development so that the executive director is able to set realistic goals, delegate tasks, ensure high staff morale, and collaborate with the board of directors to manage expectations.
At Laurel and Associates, Ltd., we believe that effective training creates lasting change. We help organizations across industries improve employee performance and leadership capacity by designing training programs that are practical, engaging, and grounded in research-based methods.
Our approach centers on adult learning principles, ensuring that every workshop or course we design for you is relevant, interactive, and immediately applicable. From novice trainers to seasoned executives, our solutions are crafted to meet your unique needs of your workforce.
Introduction: A state agency sought to develop a more cohesive management team.
Challenge: Preliminary survey results and individual interviews indicated that there was a low level of trust and a lack of open communication both within the team and outside it.
Strategies: Facilitate a full day in-person retreat with highly interactive skill-building learning activities that enabled the team members to get to know each other better, develop team operating principles, and collaborate in a problem-solving activities.
Results: Participant evaluations indicated a positive response to the retreat. A survey conducted two months after the retreat indicated that the levels of trust and open communication had increased dramatically.
Impact: The team members felt that the management team now fostered a culture of collaboration and cooperation.
Introduction: An international nonprofit organization needed to help its managers become more comfortable with coaching poor performers.
Challenge: The managers tended to avoid handling issues of poor performance.
Strategies: Facilitate a full-day in-person workshop with highly interactive skill-building learning activities that enabled the managers to learn how to give coaching feedback to poor performers and then practice their new skills to build a level of confidence.
Results: Participant evaluations indicated a positive response to the workshop. The effectiveness of the program convinced the nonprofit to provide the same skill-building training program to additional managers from around the world. They, also, learned how to give coaching feedback and then practiced their new skills.
Impact: Both groups of managers became more comfortable with coaching poor performers.
Effective Change Management.
Change Management Skills Week 1: Effective change management has certain characteristics. If you are a manager who wants to implement and manage an effective change, this first of a 5-week series will help you determine if your change management approach is likely to be successful. Join us on February 11 at 10 am CST.
Change Management Steps 1 & 2.
Change Management Skills Week 2: There are eight steps in an effective change management process. If you are a manager who is planning to initiate a change, before you proceed you’ll benefit from learning how to implement Step 1: Assess the needs and Step 2: Analyze probable reactions. In addition, you’ll learn about the three types of resistance to change and why people accept or welcome change. Join us on February 18 at 10 am CST.
Change Management Steps 3 & 4.
Change Management Skills Week 3: There are eight steps in an effective change management process. If you are a manager who is ready to implement a change, you’ll benefit from learning how to implement Step 3: Prepare a tentative plan, one that considers action steps and how to address potential roadblocks for each step. You’ll also learn how to implement Step 4: Make a final decision, keeping in mind how to ensure your decision is effective in terms of quality and acceptance. Join us on February 25 at 10 am CST.
Change Management Steps 5 & 6.
Change Management Skills Week 4: There are eight steps in an effective change management process. If you are a manager who is preparing to implement a change, you’ll benefit from learning how to implement Step 5: Establish a timetable, taking into account that certain types of changes take different amounts of time to implement successfully. You’ll also learn how to implement Step 6: Communicate so the transition runs smoothly, you’ve contacted all the right people and you’ve told them all they need to know. Join us on March 4 at 10 am CST.
Steps 7 & 8.
Change Management Skills Week 5: There are eight steps in an effective change management process. During this last of a 5- week series, you’ll learn how to put into practice Step 7: Implement, including all the implementation decisions you’ll need to make. You’ll also learn how to implement Step 8: Monitor and Evaluate your change efforts, including all the questions you’ll need to be prepared to answer. Then we’ll recap all the steps and add considerations to keep in mind with each step to increase your probability of success. Join us on March 11 at 10 am CST.
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