2012 ELI Presentation Descriptions

Bottom Line Change®: Zingerman’s Recipe for Effective Organizational Change

Presenter: Ari Weinzweig

Pre-Institute Reading Materials

• Zingerman's: A Recipe for Change

Do you love or hate change? Most people enjoy change when they feel like they are part of the process; however, people resent it when they feel like the change has been imposed upon them.

Since change is important to organizations' success, learning how to manage it effectively is critical. During this workshop, Ari Weinzweig will share a change process model that ensures the right people get involved at the right time. The Bottom Line Change recipe works well for brief, impromptu changes, as well as organization-wide, long-term changes.

Solving the World’s Toughest Problems

Presenter: Dr. Paul C. Light

This session will offer discussion and analysis on social breakthroughs needed to solve urgent global threats such as poverty, disease, and hunger. Paul Light will also explore ways the nonprofit human service arena could and should be playing a part in this.

Lead with Mission, Vision, Core Values and Beliefs

Presenter: Dr. Martin L. Mitchell

Pre-Institute Reading Materials

• Building Cultures of Respect: A Blueprint for Youth-Serving Organizations
• Starr Commonwealth Strategic Plan
• Starr Commonwealth Core Values

Leaders face many opportunities, challenges, roadblocks, and gateways to success in the daily operations of their organization. Facing these aspects of everyday life without an attachment to mission, vision, core values and beliefs would be akin to trying to steer a rudderless ship. Stated another way, “If you don’t know where you are going then any path will get you there.”

Dr. Mitchell states, “In my close to 42 years of serving children and families, I have made thousands of decisions that would have been impossible to make without the benefits of understanding the universal needs of people and the core values and beliefs that anchor Starr’s Vision and Mission.

The subject of Dr. Mitchell’s presentation will evolve around these principles.

Leading for Impact

Presenter: Polina Makievsky and Laura Pinsoneault

Pre-Institute Reading Materials

• Disruptive Forces Report
  

Disruptive Forces identifies an Uncompromising Demand for Impact as an essential capacity for high performing organizations to thrive as we move into the next decade of the 21st Century. As it stands today, most human service organization leaders recognize the need to communicate the effectiveness and unique impact of their work to clients, community members, and potential funders. Yet, almost all of these organizations continue to struggle with how to define and measure that impact in meaningful ways. This session will focus on why this high demand for impact has created disruption in organizations and the opportunities at hand for human service agencies to thrive within this impact driven era.

This session will begin with Disruptive Forces as a starting point for identifying the tools necessary to create an organization impact story. Participants will have the opportunity to examine the route of the impact revolution and focus on how impact demands continue to change. Current case studies and accessible tools will be utilized to generate the foundations for how participants’ agencies can start to address these challenges, improve their capacity for impact, and communicate the difference they are making in the communities they serve based on their own unique approach.

Participants will leave this session with the necessary knowledge and resources to:

• Understand the risks and opportunities created by the impact movement,
• Identify the appropriate tools and resources for demonstrating impact, and
• Advocate for the resources needed to maximize impact in their organization.

Finding an Extra Hour Every Day, Including Strategies for Taming the E-mail Beast

Presenter: Randall Dean

During this session, Randall Dean, author of Amazon.com bestseller Taming the E-mail Beast, will provide strategies for many areas where productivity loss is common:

• Managing multiple projects and tasks
• Maintaining traction when dealing with tasks and interruptions
• Managing email and information overload
• Keeping staff on task, tracking who owes you what and getting that information on time
• Calendar and contact management

Dean’s goal is to help professionals learn several new and immediately useful time and email management strategies for maximizing their work time.

Leading Innovation

Presenter: Jeff DeGraff

Making your organization better and new is the name of the game. Productivity is no longer enough, growth is now required. In a down market innovation isn’t your best friend…it’s your only friend. But innovation turns everything you have been taught about effective leadership upside down.

But what happens to an organization when it introduces new practices? What happens when your best people aren’t your people at all? What happens when everyone, everywhere, everyday innovates? Throw away your checklist. One size never really fit all anyway. It’s time to make stone soup – to create new concoctions in new ways.

OK, you’ve heard WHAT you need to do from everyone, but HOW to do it is the real challenge. This workshop is about HOW to DEVELOP the PRACTICES, PROJECTS, and PEOPLE to IMPLEMENT INNOVATION. It focuses on the role of leaders in developing the ability to make good on the innovation promise, to sync your strategies, practices and competencies to achieve your collaborative innovation goals.

This workshop will show you how to…

• Spot opportunities for innovation
• Pick the right people to create breakthroughs
• Establish a high performance creative culture and work environment
• Develop key individual and organizational creative capabilities
• Measure creativity
• Develop an innovation process
• Pick winning ideas, manage winning projects, and harvest winning innovations

Leadership’s Balancing Act

Presenter: Dan Magnuson

It is critical for leaders to find the balance between leadership and management tasks. Neglecting one perspective at the expense of the other can negatively impact the success and well-being of the leader and his or her organization.

During this session, Dan Magnuson will focus on providing an understanding of the difference between leadership and management, and lead a discussion of strategies for finding the right balance for each individual and organization.

A Better Way of Working: A Revolutionary Approach to Changing the Way We Work and Live

Presenter: Katherine Bailey

Katherine Bailiey will explain how to be an effective leader by managing energy, rather than time. Time is a finite resource; however, energy can be systematically expanded and regularly renewed. In physics, energy is defined simply as the capacity to do work. When people have more energy available to them—more capacity—they can get more done in less time with a higher level of engagement and a better quality of life.

Executive Health and Wellness

Presenter: John Tropman

Pre-Institute Reading Materials

• The 5C Approach To Nonprofit Leadership

Health and wellness are important in order to accomplish leadership activities. Executive leadership is a like marathon that requires stamina and verve. In addition, executives have to serve as models for their staff, and a healthy workplace is an energized workplace. Staff look to the CEO and his or her behavior in this regard. The CEO should strive for health and produce and support a culture of health.

During this session, John Tropman will discuss these topics by referencing, “The One Minute Manager Gets Fit.”

Diversity Management and Organizational Change: Beyond Affirmative Action

Presenter: Gladis Benavides

Critical Components of an Organizational Change Effort

A successful diversity initiative, like any other organizational-change effort, requires several critical components. It needs a vision; clear, compelling, and communicated expectations; and a strategic plan design to achieve that vision. In addition, goals must to be developed, and benchmarks must be identified to evaluate results.

Senior Management Commitment and Involvement

A diversity effort, without the active, visible, and sustained involvement and support of senior leadership, will have a short life. Senior managers's awareness of the personal implications of diversity and the potential consequences of management's backstage and public behavior is critical. This session will provide participants with practical and useful information as to how to lead, influence, and get results related to inclusion, organizational development, and cultural competency.