Help for Non-Profit Leaders
 
My good friend David Coleman is offering a free service for a few leaders of non-profits in the Washington DC/Baltimore area. In my opinion, if David is running it, it's going to be worth attending. Here's his description of it.
 
The Leader's Circle is a free experiment for a select group of 5-7 executive directors (or their immediate deputy directors) of non-competing, non-profit agencies in the Washington, DC/Baltimore corridor designed to foster collaboration among nonprofit chief executives while helping them to increase organizational results, individual learning, and networking.  The program revolves around the action learning process in which five to seven members meet four times face-to-face and every other week by phone from April to June, and, then, again from September to December.
 
Action Learning is an approach developed in the UK during the 1940's in which one seeks to foster new learning and insights among colleagues by grappling with real problems they are struggling with.  By asking questions that seek to deepen the analysis of the issues and provide new perspectives on the problem, group members work on resolving the problem.  Additional goals for all group members are to network with and learn from each other.
 
Members help each other by providing highly focused feedback, questioning, support, and even documents and materials-whatever they deem will help.  Members are encouraged to take actions, however small, between sessions that will address the problem or issue brought up at the previous meeting.
 
For more information, contact David directly:  David@tmscoaching.com  202-966-3660

Sincerely,