Developing High Performing People

People-Focused Strategy & Alignment

Guided by our expert faculty, you and your fellow nonprofit executives will be challenged to examine your personal values, and explore how to understand emotional intelligence and the role it plays in having difficult yet effective conversations.

You'll learn how to develop and align your organization with a people-focused strategy, how to inspire others to grow professionally, in challenging times and how to prepare the organization for the inevitability of transition in both full-time and volunteer leadership. Leave equipped to make an even more positive impact on the people you lead and serve your organization's ability to fulfill its mission.

Center for Nonprofit Management

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Who Should Attend

  • Middle, upper and senior-level executives of nonprofit organizations who lead teams
  • Leaders who must motivate and energize others in an organizational setting

Key Benefits

  • Think strategically about the people resources of your organization
  • Learn to communicate your values to all stakeholders
  • Understand the importance of a leadership succession plan for the paid and volunteer leaders of your organization

Program Content

Engaged: The Art & Science of Sustaining Motivation

  • Gain keen insight into how to motivate people to do their best and keep their heads, hearts and hands engaged once they’ve come onboard
  • Learn by leveraging insights from the social and behavioral sciences to offer strategies for how to prevent demotivating talent
  • Discuss how to drive sustained engagement at every level of the organization
  • Know how to transform your organization’s culture into a competitive advantage in the competition for top talent

Well Being & Vitality: Maximizing the Performance of Self and Others

  • Identify and develop your employees' strengths
  • Discover how to unleash the potential of team members
  • Uncover best practices in giving feedback

Creating & Enhancing Trust in Your Organization

  • Understand the business case for developing trust
  • Learn how to build and convey interpersonal and organizational trust

Difficult Conversations

  • Understand what makes confrontations in the work place difficult
  • Master strategies for approaching confrontation, instead of avoiding it
  • Practice and perfect your style of handling difficult conversations
  • Learn to shift perspectives to a learning conversation

Faculty

Elise Madrick - Academic Director; Associate Director, Nonprofit Executive Programs

Michelle L. Buck - Clinical Professor of Executive Education

Nicholas A. Pearce - Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations

Brooke Vuckovic - Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations

Adam Waytz - Professor of Management & Organizations

Accommodations, Fees & Policies

Location

Nonprofit Management Programs are held at Northwestern University's Chicago Campus.

Wieboldt Hall
340 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Directions

Chicago Campus Parking Map - Please Note: the Huron Superior Parking A lot and the Erie Ontario Parking C & D lots are available to the public and should be used when attending programs at Wieboldt Hall.

Application Deadline

The deadline for registration is 10:00 am one business day prior to the program start date.

Scholarship Assistance

Up to 50% scholarships are available for all of our nonprofit executive education programs for those working in nonprofit organizations. All scholarship requests are reviewed by our Registrar and any scholarships granted will be reflected in the amount charged to your credit card.

Payment

  • If you request a scholarship, your credit card is submitted upon registration and will be charged once your request is approved (allow 1-2 business days for review).
  • If you do not request a scholarship, your credit card will be charged upon application submission.

Cancellation Policy:

Participants must notify the Program Manager five business days in advance of the program start date if they are unable to attend. Otherwise, participants will be charged 20% of the stated program fees.

When canceling a program registration, participants may choose to rollover their payment to a future program or receive a refund. Participants are allowed two rollovers, after the second rollover, participants forfeit the money paid to the Center for Nonprofit Management.

*Refund or rollover must be requested at the time of the program cancellation. Once a program payment has been rolled over, a monetary refund is no longer an option. The participant must continue with the rollover process.

Approved By CFRE

THIS PROGRAM IS APPROVED BY THE CFRE TO AWARD CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Full participation in this Kellogg Nonprofit Executive Education program entitles you to 14 points in Category 1.B—Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

Note: Participants who wish to apply for continuing education points on their CFRE application for initial certification and/or recertification will be able to access a tracking form on the course site, once they register for the program.

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Kellogg School of Management

James L. Allen Center
2169 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
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