Please Note that this event has been postponed. Look for details regarding reschedule later this year.
With all of the uncertainties our nonprofit community faces, mentoring is more important than ever in securing our future. It facilitates staff and volunteer growth and development, fast tracks and retains leaders, and improves moral. What is more, mentoring prepares our leaders (present, emerging and future) by raising their level of competence and confidence. At its best, it creates a continuum of shared understanding, strengthens our talent bench and builds relationship and collaboration skills. Ultimately, mentoring makes us all better, because the core skills of a good mentoring relationship transcend it and redound to the benefit of the entire organization.
To this end, the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations (TANO) and the Center for Community Based & Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College join together to present an experiential day-long Nonprofit Texas Leadership Institute on MENTORING FOR NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & SUCCESSION facilitated by Dr. Lois Zachary, an internationally recognized on mentoring and the author of three of the leading books on this topic: The Mentor’s Guide, Creating A Mentoring Culture, and The Mentee’s Guide.
Participants in this Nonprofit Texas Leadership Institute will learn:
1. The key concepts and the four predictable phases of the mentoring cycle;
2. How your personal learning style impacts mentoring;
3. How to set SMART mentoring goals for leadership development;
4. Ways to ensure mutual accountability in the relationship;
5. How to recognize and address common stumbling blocks; and
6. How to keep the relationship on track through feedback.
Key components to be addressed are:
1. Best practices;
2. Learning style assessment;
3. Feedback guidelines;
4. Case studies;
5. Mentoring skill practice sessions; and
6. Reflective activities.
All registrants will receive one copy of Dr. Zachary’s book, The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships (Second Edition) and complete a learning style assessment as part of the Institute. Continental breakfast and lunch are included in the registration fee.