Differences in leadership and management, and how those differences affect decision-making.Research has highlighted the differences in leadership and management. Cultivating strong decision-making skills is not optional. This session looks at the aspects of leadership that involves how to make informed choices for the organization and the people in it. Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this event if there is not adequate registration.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Our facilitator, Pam Benson Owens:Pamela Benson Owens is the President and CEO of Edge of Your Seat Consulting, Inc and is currently serving as the Acting Executive Director of Six Square. For 23+ years Pam has owned Edge of Your Seat Consulting, a unique consulting firm that is dedicated to assisting for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The firm’s major focus is to provide methodologies that help manage perceptions and narratives about complex and challenging issues with courage and strategic passion. Pam feels she is most effective when she partners with organizations from the inside out in order to streamline the hierarchical needs, create infrastructure, coach teams, shift organizational cultures and, of most importance, help leaders become more effective. Clients’ transformations are the essence of her work, and they’re also what bring her great joy and empirical pride. She serves on the […]

Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your meetings.If you are a typical professional, you have about 62 meetings per month, and your coworkers believe 50% of these meetings are a waste of time. (Altissan, 2019). Learn simple, immediately applicable skills and processes to facilitate any group conversation, foster collaboration, come to decisions, and drive productive outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn to facilitate by facilitating – please come prepared to experiment with new techniques and give and receive feedback and challenge how you lead groups.Learning Objectives• Practice and develop core facilitation skills for framing dialogue, effective listening, and asking productive questions• Learn to use processes and tools to enable groups to share and analyze information and make decisions• Learn to manage individual and group “dysfunction”Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this opportunity if there is not adequate registration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------More about our facilitators: