The next two online events will focus on issues that every arts and culture leader faces: motivating staff and negotiation. Talk with an Expert: Attracting, Motivating and Retaining Staff is a small group Q&A session featuring a leading professor of human resource management. Negotiation: Strategies to Follow and Pitfalls to Avoid is a Closer Look webinar that will put you in the classroom of a leading expert on negotiation and team dynamics. Team participation is encouraged for both of these events, which cost $95 per login.
October 21 | 1-2 PM EDT
As organizations are continually asked to do more with less, it’s critical that you be able to retain your staff and keep them engaged and motivated. During this hour long Q&A session, Professor Diane Burton of Cornell University will explore your questions about what makes your organization an attractive place to work and how to use job design and policies to keep staff motivated. Prior to the live session, your team will be provided with a recorded presentation by Professor Burton on management challenges specific to arts organizations and creating “good jobs” that are fulfilling for staff and meet the needs of your organization. Register now »
November 11 | 1-2 PM EST
Leaders use negotiation as a business tool every day to advance their organizations — in labor agreements, contracting with partners and suppliers, and in some cases with boards of trustees. Professor Margaret Neale of Stanford University will provide your team with tools to help you negotiate more effectively, from assessing the cost and benefit of a particular negotiation to determining which negotiation strategy will be most appropriate and effective. Professor Neale will lecture for 45 minutes, providing you and your team with the opportunity to submit questions at the end of the session. Register Now »
You know about the benefits of good governance – a shared commitment to mission achievement and organizational sustainability. But how do you evaluate governance? How do you know if your governance is great?
Governance includes a wide range of activities, such as financial oversight, strategy formulation, and securing resources required for long-term organizational health. The tricky part of evaluating governance is that great governance is particular to each individual organization. The key to assessing your organization’s governance is determining what your organization needs from the board of directors and evaluating how well the board is meeting those specific needs. Read the rest of this entry »
There is just over a week left to apply for our three-day Strategy seminar. Next Friday, August 27, is the last day we will accept applications to attend this October 28-30 Nashville presentation. Apply now »
This seminar will provide your leadership team with a rich learning experience and retreat-like working session. Leading management professors will engage your team through case studies, class discussions and extensive team exercises. You will gain tools to analyze your organization’s environment, articulate the relationships between key stakeholders and integrate programmatic and economic choices so you’re able to better focus your resources on pursuing your mission. By the end of the three days, your team will have a shared understanding of what makes your organization unique and a plan for how to maximize your mission achievement in a financially responsible way.
Leadership teams of three-to-five participants will attend with an Organization Fellowship covering the $1250 tuition. A simple application process will be used to identify a diverse mix of medium and large organizations with clear goals for their participation. Additional travel support will be available to all teams from outside the Nashville area to help with the cost of travel and lodging.
Strategic Governance is the final seminar that we’ll be presenting with the 2010 Organization Fellowship. This seminar provides senior leadership and board members with the opportunity to strengthen one of the most critical capacities of any nonprofit organization – governance. You don’t want to miss this opportunity to work with your most important allies to make the organization you each care so much about as strong as it can be.
During this two day working-session, you will learn how to create conditions and build relationships that can react to change, contribute to good decisions and, in turn, to good governance. By the end of this seminar you will have:
An advanced conception of how boards and executives work together for organizational success
A more sophisticated understanding of the functions and elements of governance
A framework for analyzing governance performance in an organization
An advanced self-evaluation instrument that can be employed for annual evaluation and continued governance improvement
Strategic Governance will be presented in Chicago, December 2-3. All teams will attend with Organization Fellowships covering the full $1250 team tuition. Teams from outside the Chicago area will also receive up to $600 per person to help with the cost of travel and lodging. The deadline to apply is October 8.
There is only one month left to apply to bring your leadership team together off-site for our intensive three-day Strategyseminar. Presented in Nashville, October 28-30, this rigorous working session will provide your leadership with a vocabulary to talk about who you are, what you do and why you do it. By the end of this seminar, you’ll be able to:
Evaluate the critical features of your organization’s external environment
Identify the unique value your organization can bring to your community
Balance artistic and economic choices
Ensure your organization’s resources are being used to support your most valuable initiatives
Leading professors of management will engage your team through the analysis of real-life cases, class discussions and team exercises to give you both a theoretical and a practical understanding of strategy development. By the end of the seminar, your team will have completed a structured analysis of your organization and will have an articulated path of action. See a detailed description of the seminar sessions »
All participating teams will receive Organization Fellowships covering the full $1250 tuition for a team of up to 5. Participants from outside Nashville will also receive up to $600 per person in travel support to help with the cost of travel and lodging. The deadline to apply is August 27.
Talk with an Expert: Managing Successful Teams features Professor Margaret Neale of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, a celebrated expert on group dynamics, organizational behavior, influence and negotiations. Her research focuses on topics including team composition, learning, and performance; distributed work groups; and power and status. She also serves as the director for two executive programs – Negotiation and Influence Strategies and Managing Teams for Innovation and Success – and teaches extensively.
Join NAS and Professor Neale July 29, 1-2 PM EDT to explore your team’s questions about how to effectively build, manage and participate in groups. In advance of the live event, participants will have unlimited access to a recording of Professor Neale identifying critical challenges facing all teams and sharing strategies for making teams more effective.
Team participation is encouraged. Participation is limited to 12 organizations to allow for the highest level of interaction. Tuition is $95 per organization. Register now »
Let’s start with what strategy is not. Strategy is not a strategic plan. It’s not a mission, vision or goals. It’s not programming, marketing or finance.
Strategy is an organization’s integrated set of choices about what to do – and what not to do – using available resources. Strategy addresses how an organization pursues its mission using available resources and how it continues to attract the resources it needs to achieve its mission over time. A strategic plan documents how an organization intends to use its resources to implement its strategy over a set period of time. While mission and vision comprise a social logic for the organization’s existence, strategy can be described as the economic logic that complements the social logic. Read the rest of this entry »
There are key challenges that face all groups – who should be included, how to get team members to participate and contribute, how to avoid groupthink so you can generate the new ideas you seek. There are also proven strategies for addressing these and other challenges of team work. Join NAS July 29, 1-2 PM EDT for a small group Q & A session with expert Professor Margaret Neale of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business to explore your questions about making your teams more successful.
This small group discussion will be limited to twelve organizations to ensure the highest level of interaction. In advance of the live event, you and your team will be provided with a short recording of Professor Neale discussing the inherent challenges in working in teams and strategies for being more effective. We encourage you to gather a group of your colleagues and prepare questions in advance of the discussion based on the recording. The tuition for attending is $95 per team.
The NAS Strategy seminar features two leading professors on strategy development and strategic management, Professors Violina Rindova, and Robert Wiltbank. Professors Rindova and Wiltbank will lead teams of arts and culture leaders through class discussions, case studies and team exercises as they analyze and articulate why their organizations do what they do and what makes them unique. Read the rest of this entry »
Join NAS online July 29 for a Q&A session with Stanford University Graduate School of Business Professor Margaret Neale. There are inherent challenges that confront all team leaders and participants – from picking the right team for the task at hand to encouraging and enabling participation from the entire team. This online small-group discussion is your opportunity to explore your questions about managing successful teams with a true expert on the subject.
Talk with an Expert discussions are hour-long video-conferences in which twelve organizations get to directly explore their questions about a critical challenge with an expert. Managing Successful Teams features Professor Margaret Neale, an expert on group dynamics, organizational behavior, and influence and negotiations.
The live conversation will be held Wednesday, July 29, 1-2 pm EDT and will be anchored by a short recording in which Professor Neale identifies key challenges facing all teams and shares proven strategies for making teams more effective which. Participants will have unlimited access to this recording prior to the live event. Team participation is strongly encouraged and tuition costs $95 per organization.
November 11 | 1-2 PM EST