BOARD / ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM
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Strategic Planning - 1 day
The board of director's role in strategic planning is their investment and commitment to the future growth of the center. Developing an effective process is essential to successful strategic planning.
Learn:
A process for evaluating your center's needs
Tools and techniques for identifying goals
How to prioritize and schedule goals into a strategic plan
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Project Management - 1 day
Monitoring progress on projects may be part of the implementation of strategic planning goals. Establishing an effective project management process can reduce the impact that monitoring may have on the functioning of your board.
Learn:
Project planning techniques
Project monitoring techniques, including quality assurance
How to get back on track when interruptions occur
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Outcome Planning and Measurement - 1 day
Outcome measurement requires identifying the difference your program or service will make and planning activities and outputs to achieve that difference. Often, the challenge to centers is determining that difference in advance and how it will be measured.
Learn:
A step-by-step planning strategy that leads to measurable outcomes
Skills to identify measurable outcomes in advance
How to engage others in the outcomes planning process
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Independent Living Philosophy and History - ½ day
Compare and contrast the values and beliefs of people with disabilities with those of non-disabled people. Examine how these values and beliefs shaped and directed the independent living and disability rights movement. Independent living philosophy has a significant influence on a board's role and function in an independent living center.
Learn:
How values and beliefs contributed to I L Philosophy
Historical factors that contributed to the disability rights movement
How I L Philosophy and standards and assurances influence a board's role and function
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Effective Board / Staff Relationships - 1 day
A high functioning board can make a center stronger and an executive director's life easier. Board involvement in the future growth of a center requires skills and strategies.
Learn:
Requirements and expectations of a board including philosophical expectations
The roles and responsibilities of board members to the center, director and community
Strategies to enhance board function and the relationship between the board and the center
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