Strong management and supervision skills and tools build trust, increase engagement, and are a foundation for your organization’s work—investing in these skills is crucial. This collection provides a framework of five core elements of management, systems, and behaviors to develop a culture of feedback in your organization, and practical tools for delegating and decision making that help create transparency and clarity within your organization.
Resources in this Collection
Foundations of Management
Most conservationists and activists don’t have degrees in management, so we can struggle to create processes to set our staff up for success. This tutorial walks through a straightforward, five-part process that demystifies supervision and increases your ability to create a foundation for your staff that leads to more impact and less time spent dealing with personnel challenges.
Core Elements of Management
Your people are your greatest asset, and creating supportive supervision and management relationships is necessary to retain this asset. Investing time cultivating these relationships for success can improve staff retention and development to strengthen an organization.
Creating a Culture of Feedback Through Management
Fostering a culture of feedback at your organization requires formal and informal systems that encourage and welcome feedback, as well as behaviors that set examples as leaders and managers.
Creating a Feedback-Rich Culture
In this webinar, we show the power of feedback. We demystify what it really is, provide key skills in both giving and receiving feedback, and share ideas on how to create a practice in your organization that supports developing a feedback-rich culture that people can learn to love.
Creating a Feedback-Rich Culture
Feedback isn’t about “once-and-done.” An effective organization strives to create a feedback-rich culture which takes both organizational systems and leadership behaviors that are applied consistently over time. Systems support and sustain behaviors. Behaviors bring systems to life. Use this list to see where your organizations thrive and identify where you might need to focus on improving.
Delegating Resources & Tools
Use this as a guide to help you determine where and how you can delegate some of your tasks and projects to keep your time focused, build staff capacity, and otherwise strengthen the management of your organization.
Decisiveness and Decision-Making
Decisiveness is one of the most valued traits in a leader. Learn more about the process of how we make decisions, where we can get hung up, and how to become more decisive, as well as to create clearer decision-making processes amongst your team. In this tutorial, Kristi also unpacks the ways that our identities affect our relationship to decisiveness.
DARCI Decision Making Model
The DARCI Model clarifies your organization’s decision making process by explicitly naming who is involved in decision making.
Managing Staff Transitions with Care, Clarity, and Compassion
Nonprofit workplaces often carry deep relational ties and high emotional stakes. When a difficult personnel decision regarding staffing becomes necessary, leaders can feel overwhelmed, uncertain, and concerned. This webinar provides…
4 Steps to Address Performance Challenges
As supervisors, despite our best efforts challenges will come up. When supervisors need to address persistent performance problems try using this straight forward, four-step process.