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 »
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. (more…)
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.
One of the biggest challenges leaders face when trying to develop strategy is getting away from the day-to-day demands of running an organization. NAS’ three-day Strategy seminar gives leadership teams the tools, time and space to reflect on and discuss their organizations’ big picture.
This retreat-like working session will enable your team to create a shared vision and focus on how to best use your limited resources to achieve your mission and create a healthy organization. Outstanding faculty will lead you through case studies, class discussions and team exercises as your team analyzes and articulates what makes your organization unique and explore how to leverage that to deepen your relevance within your community.
Strategy is being presented in Nashville, October 28-30 for leadership teams from arts and culture organizations across the country. All participating teams will attend with an Organization Fellowship covering the $1250 team tuition. Additional travel support will be available to all teams from outside the Nashville area to help with the cost of travel and lodging. A simple application process will be used to identify a diverse mix of medium and large organizations. Applications must be received by August 27 to be eligible.
This Friday – May 21 – is the application deadline for Creative Alliances. Bring your team to this timely seminar to focus on two critical questions: under what circumstances are alliances appropriate for your mission, needs and environment? And, if undertaken, what form should these initiatives take and what factors will aid their success?
This two-day seminar will engage your team in case study analysis and class discussions that will help your team rethink your approach to collaboration. You will gain frameworks for identifying and analyzing potential alliances which you will apply in interactive exercises with your team. By the end of the session, your team will have the tools to more effectively identify and pursue mutually beneficial partnerships. See a detailed description of the seminar sessions »
Two outstanding professors from Northwestern and Stanford will be teaching the National Arts Strategies’ Creative Alliances seminar in Detroit July 22-23.
Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science, and Communication at Stanford University. He has extensive experience in organization theory and has written dozens of papers on inter-organizational collaboration and the growing importance of networks and alliances in innovation. He is also the editor of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook.
Jeannette Colyvas is Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy. Professor Colyvas’ research interests include organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; and comparing public, private, and nonprofit forms of organizing. Her published work has appeared in the journals of Management Science, Research in Organizational Behavior and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Throughout this two-day working session, Professors Powell and Colyvas will engage teams in case studies, class discussions and team exercises as they give participants the tools to strategically analyze and pursue alliances and collaborations. All participating teams will attend with a 2010 Organization Fellowship covering the full cost of tuition. Teams from outside the Detroit area will also receive travel support of up to $600 per person to help with the costs of travel and lodging.
Sixteen teams will be attendingStrategic Marketing in Chicago May 6-7 with a 2010 Organization Fellowship. All fellowship recipients were selected through a competitive application process and will attend the seminar at no cost. In addition to the $1250 fellowship covering the full-tuition for the seminar, participants from outside the Chicago metropolitan area will also receive up to $600 per person to help offset the travel and lodging costs. Fellowship recipients include: (more…)
