In the twenty-first century, nonprofits are constantly challenged to effectively adapt to ever changing internal and external factors that impact their sustainability. Many organizations rely on their leadership as the catalyst force for change and adaptation in order to remain relevant, present, and valuable. The Fieldstone Leadership Network San Diego offers nonprofit leaders Crossroads and Turning Points – a program designed to offer you timely, cutting-edge research, and information tools on relevant issues facing the social sector.
Current Programs
THE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE ONE PAGE STRATEGIC PLAN
Strategic planning is recognized as fundamental to organizational success. However, often after a lot of work, time and expense, plans often sit on office shelves and become irrelevant to the day-to-day work of leading our nonprofit organizations. In response, frameworks and methodologies for this important endeavor are continually evolving in an effort to increase the impact and usefulness of this important process.
Join us to learn about The Highly Effective One Page Strategic Plan.
This is a simple, yet powerful, tool that has the potential to keep your team and board engaged with your strategy by providing an easily accessible guide to meet your goals and objectives.
Our Facilitator: Nancy Batterman
With over 30 years of nonprofit leadership and management experience Nancy Batterman strives to inspire nonprofit leaders to achieve success both personally and for their organization.
Her extensive experience working within the nonprofit sector and her MBA brings a unique combination of perspective, experience and education, to help her nonprofit clients develop effective business strategies, grow their organizations in a sustainable way and perform at a high level of success. Nancy works with nonprofits focusing on strategic planning, executive coaching and leadership team development. Nancy is a graduate of our Executive Learning Group program. Her Fieldstone Leadership Reading Group is still reading together six years after “completing” the program.
February 28, 2023 9 am to 11 am
Fieldstone Leadership Network San Diego Training Room
$50
To register, click the button below. Contact us for more information.
COACHING AS A LEADERSHIP TOOL
Offered in partnership with the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance, Coaching as a Leadership Tool is a certificate program for current and aspiring leaders to help you incorporate coaching into your leadership style. The program includes three on-line courses for you to complete independently and three in-person “Coaching Conversations” with a cohort of nonprofit leaders to provide practical experience to your on-line learning. The Coaching Conversations will be facilitated gatherings focusing on each course in the 3-part series.
The Coaching Conversations portion of this program will take place at the Fieldstone Leadership Network San Diego’s offices on: April 12, May 10 and June 14, 2023 from 9am to 12 noon.
Spring Program begins March 1, 2023
The program includes:
1. The Self Aware Leader
This course is about taking time to explore your own values as a leader. The focus is on the “inner” you in leadership. Of course, this process of self-reflection is an ongoing task — one that never ends. This course provides you the window of time to focus on self-awareness. You will participate in many leadership assessments that give you a better understanding of your own strengths.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore your leadership values
- Affirm your leadership ideals
- Increase your understanding of the leader’s role with a focus on empathy
- Develop confidence to be an authentic leader, aligning values, expectations, and behaviors
2. Build Your Organization’s Bench: Leadership and Coaching Conversations
This course is about using a coaching strategy to make your role less stressful while building the capacity of your team members and the productivity of the organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Define coaching as a leadership style
- Build a case for why coaching is a useful leadership style in today’s organizations
- Prepare you to incorporate coaching into your leadership practice
3. The Capable Coach
This course will further your understanding of coaching competencies and how to use them productively in managing and developing the people on your team. In the coaching role, managers emphasize the use of questions and active listening to help others be more successful in their work, problem-solve effectively, and accomplish their goals.
Learning Objectives:
- Review the value of coaching as a leadership tool
- Understand and apply the GROW Model for Coaching
- Identify the key elements of an effective coaching environment.
- Comprehend and apply coaching competencies.
The program cost for the on-line three-course Learning Path and three in-person “Coaching Conversations” is $300. Space is limited to 16 participants. Spring 2023 Registration is now open. Spring 2023 dates: course opens March 1, 2023 with Coaching Conversations on April 12, May 10, and June 14, 2023 from 9am to 12pm.
To register, click the button below. Contact us for more information.
Recent Programs
FORTIFY
We have joined forces with The Nonprofit Institute at the University of San Diego and RISE San Diego to bring a series of webinars to the nonprofit sector. The most recent 6-webinar offering called, FORTIFY: The Racial Equity Series, ran in the fall of 2020. The initial offering of 12 webinars, called FORTIFY: The COVID series, was designed to help leaders navigate through the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Visit the FORTIFY program page for more information.
BOARD DIVERSIFICATION – A Two-Part Series on Building a Diverse Board
with Ali Levin, founder of BoardBoost Consulting and author of Boost Your Nonprofit Board: A Diversification Guide
COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE CIRCLE – The Gifts and Challenges of Catching Stones
Offered in partnership with the National Conflict Resolution Center
JUST MERCY LEADERSHIP DISCUSSION
Featuring Just Mercy Executive Producer Scott Budnick in conversation with Lee Ann Kim
Discussion Video | Resource Page
FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR NONPROFIT PROFESSIONALS
with Kristen Burnell, Executive Director Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center
Financial Literacy for Nonprofit Professionals Webinar from 4/23/20
Financial Literacy for Nonprofit Professionals Resource Page
FUNDRAISING IN THE ERA OF COVID-19
with Kathy Druquer Duff, Principal KDD Philanthropy
Fundraising in the Era of COVID-19 Webinar from 3/26/2020
Fundraising in the Era of COVID-19 Webinar Resources
LEADING REMOTE TEAMS – Concentrating on the three C’s: Communication, Collaboration and Community with Torrie Dunlap, CEO of Kids Included Together
Leading Remote Teams Webinar from 3/23/2020
Leading Remote Teams Webinar Resources