Ecology
Ecology asks us to step back and look at a system or landscape as a whole. We suggest there are a few different frames to use.
Personal
Here are some useful tools for strengthening your personal practices within a team.
Blog
5 Practices from Deep Work by Cal Newport That'll Change Your Life
Review five tips from Deep Work that will help you create time and space for focus.
Nina Semczuk
Book
Deep Work
Discover the ability to focus on a cognitively demanding task without distraction.
Cal Newport
Toolkit
Goals + Success Spectrum
Clarify goals and outcomes by defining success along a spectrum of Minimum to Target to Epic.
Faster Than 20
Tools & Resources
Art of Leadership: Supplemental Participant Workbook II
This workbook is packed with tools and resources to help you grow personally and professionally as a leader.
Rockwood Leadership Institute
Curriculum
Collab 101 - Lesson 2: Personal development
As part of the Collab Model, this lesson focuses on personal development, providing frameworks and tools for personal development in an organizational context.
Round Sky Solutions
LINK
Collab 101 - Tracking Personal Development Template
Related to the above resources, this template is designed to track personal development.
Round Sky Solutions
Team
These resources can help clarify team dynamics and strengthen team functioning.
Book Summary
The Power of Habit
A quick review of Charles Duhigg’s book: The Power of Habit, which explains why habits exist and how they may be changed.
Kim Hartman
Training
The Management Center Trainings
Training for new nonprofit managers, seasoned professionals, and everyone in between; helping leaders working for social change build and run more effective organizations.
The Management Center
External Website
What is a Mastermind Group? A Definition and Tutorials
Discover Mastermind Groups, which are group settings that offer a combination of brainstorming, education, and peer accountability.
The Success Alliance
Book
Organizational Learning Books by Peter M. Senge
Peter M. Senge’s work centers on promoting shared understanding of complex issues and a shared leadership vision for healthier human systems. His books may help strengthen team function.
Peter M. Senge
Link
The New Science of Team Chemistry
Discover four primary work styles and related strategies for accomplishing shared goals.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
PowerPoint
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Work to reach a common understanding of what it means to be a team and make substantial progress towards becoming a more cohesive unit.
Eric Polite
Tools & Resources
LEE Management Docs
Explore several management tools and resources from Leadership for Educational Equity.
Leadership for Educational Equity
Blog
Best of Joan Garry
Joan Garry's top 10 blog posts on the subject of effective nonprofit leadership.
Joan Garry Consulting
Toolkit
Goals + Success Spectrum
Clarify goals and outcomes by defining success along a spectrum of Minimum to Target to Epic.
Faster Than 20
Framework
The Five Elements of Organizational Success
Discover a unique way to analyze situations, organizational cultures, and leadership styles within a context of change.
Element Partners
Tools & Resources
The Answer Center: Resources for Nonprofits
A comprehensive collection of resources to help nonprofits strive toward the best practices in organizational excellence.
Maine Association of Nonprofit (MANP)
SWITCH PATHWAYS
A problem is a sign of what is blocking our impact or progress—it is the symptom. An issue is the underlying cause of one or more problems that we can directly address. We must take time to fully understand our problems and issues, and the root causes of both in order to choose the most strategic focus for our learning.
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Teams often begin change projects before they have clarified language, aligned their intent, and determined how a change project will connect to their larger strategic goals. Spending more time clarifying frameworks, developing personal and professional commitment to change, as well as better understanding the outcomes of the project will set a stronger foundation for success.
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We often try to solve a problem without understanding it fully. This is like performing surgery on someone’s leg without understanding how their heart works. Understanding the challenges we’re trying to tackle, and understanding better the world around us, is similarly integral to our change-making efforts.
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Major strategic initiatives need the solid foundation of a healthy organization to flourish. This includes effective internal communications, focused decision-making, useful performance evaluation, life-giving management, and conflict resolution.
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Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
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Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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