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Leadership Development Workshops

No matter your career stage or industry, there’s always room to learn and grow. Explore our leadership development workshops below to find the best fit for your team. Need guidance? Contact Katebauer@leadershipcolumbus.org for a needs assessment.

Coaching: Bringing Out the Best in Others

Description: Embracing a coaching mindset and developing the skills of a coach enables leaders to shift from rescuing others to building-up others. It provides opportunities for everyone in the workplace to feel motivated, empowered, and supported – both within and across functional lines.

Employees will:
· Gain confidence in their own abilities
· Shift from Problem Orientation to Outcome Orientation
· Understand multiple perspectives to sort through fears and concerns
· Define new ways of relating to work and to others

Team-Work Cycles: Leading a Learning Environment

Description: Teams go through predictable phases of development influencing any situation in which people work together to accomplish a task . For a team to arrive at a development stage that is characterized by a high level of cooperation and effective team functioning, that team must have achieved a balance between task and people-centric behaviors as well as devoted time to each stage of the team’s work cycle. Creating a learning environment is a foundational structure that enables people to do their best thinking together. 

Employees will:
· Be equipped to create and facilitate a learning circle
· Learn how to implement this process in any situation that calls for inclusive, insightful vision, communication, and complex problem-solving

Time Management- Commitment Management

Description: Commitment Management is the practice of committing to high value work while avoiding overcommitting to low-value work. Participants will elarn how to balance commitments made within the organization while managing the time and investment of other competing priorities and tasks.

Employees will:

· Gain best practices that will have a direct effect on efficiency, quality of work, and stress levels
· Learn how to keep priority goals infocus and keep interruptions to a minimum in order to yield the best results

Conflict Resolution and Feedback: Shifting from Problems to Outcomes

Description: When individuals work together, differences in opinions, work styles, and personalities will occur. These differences often lead to conflict. Conflict can be constructive when outcome focused, helping to unleash creativity and innovative thinking, promoting learning, and building team unity. When left unchecked, and individual or team can spin the problem, and conflict can become a highly destructive foce, eroding trust and individual/team success. 

Employees will:
· Embdy the fundamentals of conflict resolution
· Identify strategies to prevent conflicts
· Leverage strategies to resolve conflicts once they start
· Successfully manage unproductive reactions

· Devise a win-win plan of action

Community Engagement Workshops

Want to use your expertise to support and guide local nonprofits? Explore our community engagement workshops and take the next step toward becoming a community trustee.

Nonprofit Board Governance Training

The Nonprofit Board Governance Training equips individuals with essential skills to excel in nonprofit board service. Open to those who are new to board service or current board members seeking to enhance their knowledge.

Attendees will:

  • Understand nonprofit board member roles and responsibilities.
  • Strengthen financial literacy and fiduciary duties.
  • Recognize role in fundraising and sustaining financial health.
  • Explore governance models and leadership techniques.

Next Training: Wednesday, April 23, 2025  SOLD OUT: Email Collinries@leadershipcolumbus.org to be added to the waitlist. 

9:15am-5pm at the CML Main Library (96 S. Grant Ave)

Cost-free, funded with support from The Columbus Foundation

Click HERE for training flyer

Click HERE to register- limited space available

SOLD OUT: Email Collinries@leadershipcolumbus.org to be added to the waitlist.

Buy One Give One Program

Corporations: Elevate your team’s growth while making a difference! With our Buy One, Give One Program, when you invest in a workshop for your team, you can choose a nonprofit to receive a free workshop—empowering both your business and the community.