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Leadership Development Program
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The TREC Leadership Development Program:
Goals of the Program and Who It Is For
The next program will be starting in May 2009. If the following
description fits you, feel free to contact us for further
information. Are you an executive or senior-level director/manager
who is any of:
- Relatively new to your leadership role?
- Facing major changes or challenges in your organization?
- Feeling disillusioned about being a manager and losing touch
with your passion?
- Feeling overloaded and stressed?
- Hoping to significantly upgrade in some major skill areas?
- Feeling isolated and wanting to expand your peer network?
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To address the challenges facing leaders of environmental
organizations in Western North America that are Wilburforce
grantees, TREC will again offer an eight month-long leadership
development program starting in October 2006. This program has run
during the past four years and has received outstanding reviews; if
you would like to speak to some participants from past series,
please contact or for more information contact
David Thomson,
Leadership Program Director.
I gained invaluable perspective on what kinds of changes I
need to make (both in my own life and my organization). Then I
got the tools to make change and the coaching to apply those
tools toward effective solutions. I honestly can’t say enough
about how valuable the TREC leadership program has been for me –
I soaked up every bit of it. The program and each participant
inspired me, renewed my passion for this work, and gave me the
courage to make some hard decisions.
— TREC Leadership Program Participant
Goals of the Program and Who It Is For
This program will address key leadership topics,
skills and needs:
- Understanding core leadership attributes, skills and
approaches
- Knowing your specific areas of strength and where you can be
stronger
- Understanding what motivates you as leader and where you
want to go next
- Positioning your organization’s advocacy and activities for
maximum impact
- Managing staff development and performance
- Dealing with organization change and transition
- Strategic fiscal management
- Personal priority and time management; avoiding burnout
- Organization governance and working effectively with your
board
- Strategic and program planning and evaluation
This program is for senior (Director-level) staff who:
- Are new or developing leaders (e.g. one to five years’
leadership experience) who demonstrate strong potential for a
larger leadership role and are pursuing that. And is also highly
relevant for seasoned leaders looking for a boost to skills or
energy.
- Are currently in a key staff leadership and personnel
oversight roles (executive
directors or senior manager/directors) in their organization and
want to strengthen their leadership skills.
- Already have some basic training and hands-on experience in
core skills, e.g. fundraising, supervision, planning, board
development, campaigning, etc.
- Are in organizations that are
currently, or are in a pending docket to be, Wilburforce
Foundation grantees.
The agenda and approach will have tremendous value for a range of
experience levels: experienced executive director’s will gain
insights and skills to hone their leadership style and focus and
take their organizations to the next level, while newer leaders will
gain some strong practical and conceptual tools and ideas to
accelerate their development. TREC’s goal is to create as diverse a
participant base as possible, acknowledging different racial,
ethnic, age, gender, disability, cultural, and geographical
backgrounds.
One of the greatest benefits of the program is the connections
you will make with peers in the conservation community and the
support you will draw from them:
Each of you has inspired me, renewed my passion for this
work, and given me the courage to make some hard decisions. I
can’t say thanks enough for that. And I look forward to those
times when we will see and hear from each other again – it will
be fun to hear of all the changes, challenges, learning and
growing that we’ll each continue to do. Some things are worth
holding on to – not to keep them the same, but to stay connected
to something larger than ourselves.
— TREC Leadership Program Participant
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