PROGRAM #1

 “High-Impact Boards – an Efficient Method to Get There”

Facilitated by:  iBossWell, Inc.

NEW PROGRAM FOR 2009 - Your Board Can Make a Higher Impact - Quickly!

This program is for Boards desiring to raise their impact, effectiveness and contribution to their organization, yet who have limited time to devote to board development!

§         Single meeting of only 1.5 to 2 hours

§         This program can help to bring the level of awareness and action of your board members to the next level of high-impact.

§         Program includes self-assessment and Action Planning – with board members signing up to execute actions.

Date and Time:

Time to be determined based on board meeting schedules of each participating organization, between February and August 2009.  Requires a commitment from board of 1.5 to 2 hour-long meeting.

Targeted Population: Any NWA not-for-profit Board seeking to raise their impact

Location:

Tbd by each participating organization

Program Value: $2880 per organization

Maximum number of participants:  10 individual organizations/boards

Program Fee:  $300 per organization

Deadline to express interest:

March 15, 2009

Program interest may be expressed by:

·         clicking here or

·         contacting:  iBossWell, Inc. 913-642-1416 or dmcnerney@ibosswell.com

PROGRAM #2

My Leadership Path

Facilitated by:

iBossWell, Inc.

Imagine professional coaching, customized for you, driven by your needs, and delivered at your convenience.  This program provides an ideal learning opportunity for nonprofit executives.  Work with your personal leadership coach to solve some of those leadership challenges you face.  Also, enhance your leadership skills and effectiveness through this individualized approach, which includes a pre in-depth leadership assessment multi-rater instrument, along with professional coaching.  Only 10 slots available.

Date and Time:

§         Introductory Phone Session: scheduled at your convenience between March 1-15, 2009.

§         Group Leadership Workshop: Early April 2009 half-day (date to be set depending on participant’s schedules)

§         6 Individual Coaching sessions to be scheduled based on your convenience between April – early September 2009.

§         June ’09 group workshop TBA – based on participants’ schedules

Targeted Population: Any area nonprofit leaders

Location:

Jones Center for Families (workshops)

Program Value: $4890 per participant leader

Maximum number of participants: 10

Program Fee:  $300 per leader

Deadline to express interest:

March 1, 2009

Program interest may be expressed by:

·         Clicking here or

·         By contacting:  iBossWell, Inc. 913-642-1416 or dmcnerney@ibosswell.com

PROGRAM #3

 “Develop Your Strategic Plan”

Facilitated by:

iBossWell, Inc.

A critical process for successful business outcomes is the creation and implementation of plans.  How long have you and your board been talking about developing or updating the strategic plan – but you just don’t know where to start or don’t have the funds to hire the consultant?  Well – here’s your opportunity!  Enjoy the services of a professional strategic planning/organizational development consultant who will work with your agency to develop your own – customized strategic plan.  You will not only have a completed plan at the end of this project, you will also have a board and staff well positioned and trained to execute the plan, and a process and tool to assist in the execution.

Date and Time:

§         This customized process will take place between March – early Sep 2009

§         A series of meetings with various groups within the organization including board, committees, staff, will be scheduled to meet participants’ calendars.  Typically 1^st and last meeting include all board members.

Targeted Population:  NWA Not-for-profit organization that currently does not have a strategic plan, or has an outdated strategic plan.

Location:  tbd – based on Agencies choice

Program Value: $13,000

Maximum number of participants:

2 organizations

Program Fee:  $1000 per organization

Deadline to express interest:

March 1, 2009

Program interest may be expressed by:

·         clicking here or

·         By contacting:  iBossWell, Inc. 913-642-1416 or dmcnerney@ibosswell.com

PROGRAM #1

 “High-Impact Boards – an Efficient Method to Get There”

All of us in the not-for-profit sector greatly appreciate our boards, their commitment to volunteerism and their support of our organizations.  Additionally, some of the challenges with volunteerism, are the “realities” that go along with it, such as:

·         Most board volunteers have a “day job’ and are thus limited in the time they can give to their N4P organization;

·         Due to this limited time coupled with the distance from the organization, board members do not have all the information it would be good to have to make governing decisions and carry out their board roles in a high-impact manner.

Can we do anything about this dilemma?

It is not a perfect world – HOWEVER, this program can help to bring the level of awareness and action of your board members to the next level.  We take the key responsibilities and practices of highly effective and impactful boards, put it in a self-assessment format, then walk the board through it.  Additionally, part of the process includes developing an Action Plan for improvement in key areas, which is developed by the board themselves, through the discussion that follows the self-assessment.  The session ends with individual board members signing up – with time frames – to follow through on the actions in the plan (increased accountability!)  AND – the entire session is planned around the busy lives of your board members, as it only takes 1.5 to 2 hours – the time of a typical board meeting (AND can typically be scheduled at a board meeting time if desired!)

Program Goals/Objectives/Outcomes

Increase the impact and effectiveness of the Board of Directors through raising their understanding of the characteristics of high-impact boards, and enhancing their practices through commitment to specific actions for improvement.

·         Increase understanding of the challenges facing N4P Boards – relative to effectiveness & performance

·         Increase their awareness of their level of impact and effectiveness through self-assessment

·         Increase their engagement and impact through the development of specific actions for improvement (including board members signing up to implement the actions)

Program interest may be expressed by:

·         clicking here or

·         contacting:  iBossWell, Inc. 913-642-1416 or dmcnerney@ibosswell.com

Deadline to express your interest is:

March 15, 2009

PROGRAM #2

“My Leadership Path:  Leadership Development Coaching”

During this 7-month relationship with your professional leadership coach, you will identify areas for growth and learning, as well as implement new approaches and practices for success as a leader.  Your coach will help you negotiate the challenges that arise in your day to day work-life, as well as on your path of growth, and celebrate your achievements with you.  The Leadership Circle Profile® (TLC) in-depth, multi-rater leadership assessment (360°) will be conducted at the beginning of the seven-month coaching period.  This instrument provides each participant a deep look at how their self-assessment compares to their colleagues’ assessment of their skills and competencies.  The results of this assessment offer significant insights for enhancing self-awareness, which then provides rich information for the coaching engagement to embark on the path of self-management and tremendous growth in emotional intelligence.  (Click here for more information on The Leadership Circle Profile®.)

The program will kick off with 1 brief phone meeting with your coach to introduce the program and set up your on-line assessment tool, followed approximately one month later (early April 2009)  with a ½-day group leadership retreat, where your private TLC results will be provided to you, along with the interpretive guidance.  Then, through early September 2009, meet with your coach 6 times to work on your development plan, growth and development, and any current leadership challenges you are facing.  Coaching sessions will be a combination of face-to-face or over the phone.  We will also run the People Styles® Inventory for further self-awareness during the second workshop in June 2009.  This additional group workshop held during the month of June to will offer further leadership training and will be scheduled to accommodate participants’ schedules.

Program Goals:

§         Enhance leadership skills of nonprofit executives based on their individual needs

§         Enhance emotional intelligence through accelerated self-awareness and individual coaching

§         Enhance performance of agency through more effective leadership

Program provides:

§         Broad and deep feedback to leaders regarding their skills, leadership qualities and behaviors through conducting The Leadership Circle Profile® 360 leadership assessment tool.  Additionally, the People Styles profile instrument will also be completed and reviewed.

§         Individualized coaching goals will be determined through interpretation of leadership assessment results

§         Six individual coaching sessions (First one or two are face-to-face, subsequent sessions over phone).  Note: if participant desires, select coaching session(s) could include key board member or employee where significant benefit could be gained through “facilitated” conversation.

§         Coaching includes creation and implementation of an Individual Development Plan (IDP)

§         Two face-to-face group workshops for participants

Program interest may be expressed by:

·         clicking here or

·         By contacting:  iBossWell, Inc. 913-642-1416 or dmcnerney@ibosswell.com

Deadline to express your interest is:

March 1, 2009

PROGRAM #3

Develop Your Strategic Plan

A critical process for successful business outcomes is the creation and implementation of plans.  Effective leadership guides this process through aligning all activities with the plan and providing the support and resources for their teams to successfully accomplish that plan.  This takes high-level skills, including exemplary board and operational leadership, as well as keen business acumen.  Developing the plan is not an easy task.  Typically most organizations are much more successful at creating the plan when they have an experienced outside consultant facilitate the process.  Since such a process is not a one-day project, utilizing such outside services can be timely and expensive.  This program provides the skills of an experienced consultant/facilitator, coupled with the efficiencies of a new technology for plan development and tracking that can help to make the process more efficient – and thus less costly.  Additionally, the planning technological tool provides follow up monitoring and performance management capabilities that are unsurpassed in the sector.

Program Goals:

§         Develop a complete strategic plan for the organization, setting their roadmap for the next 3 years, and link the strategic plan with performance planning and support. 

§         Enhance organizational performance through streamlined, easy, accessible performance reporting and tracking (both at organizational and individual level) through use of a new web-based technology.

Strategic planning process will accomplish the following:

§         Involve board and staff through a professionally facilitated, customized 5 month process.

§         Consider the environment in which organization currently operates;

§         Review and recommitment to the mission;

§         Determination of key goals and objectives for strategic and operational direction setting;

§         Identify clear performance measures for tracking achievement of goals;

§         Prioritization of goals/projects;

§         Develop a framework by which the board and staff can operate and be accountable in moving forward to implement the strategic plan – including training for role of board and staff in plan execution.

§         Project will utilize new web-based planning documentation system that will streamline both documentation development as well as execution updates/tracking/reporting.

§         Organization must be able to provide a computer (with internet access) and LCD projection for use at planning meetings, along with a staff member scribing planning notes (in the web-based tool) throughout the meeting. (Consultant will train staff member on use of tool; staff member must have solid MSWord and typing skills.)

Program interest may be expressed by:

·         clicking here or

·         By contacting:  iBossWell, Inc. 913-642-1416 or dmcnerney@ibosswell.com

Deadline to express your interest is:

March 1, 2009