Elevate Your Leadership

Expert guidance for challenged female nonprofit executives.

Overcome management struggles, build stronger teams, and drive your organization's success.

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MODULE ONE

Foundations of Empowered Leadership

OUTCOME

Clear understanding of personal leadership style and its impacts.

DESCRIPTION

Kick off your leadership journey by defining what effective leadership looks like and assessing your current strengths and areas for growth. This initial step is crucial in paving the way for a transformative experience in leading your team.

MODULE TWO

Building Resilience

OUTCOME

Enhanced ability to withstand leadership pressures.

DESCRIPTION

Learn strategies to build resilience that can sustain your well-being and effectiveness in leadership. You'll gain invaluable tools to manage stress and prevent burnout, keeping you focused and energized through various leadership challenges.

MODULE THREE

Effective Employee Management

OUTCOME

Improved employee engagement and productivity.

DESCRIPTION

Master essential techniques to manage and motivate a diverse workforce efficiently. You'll focus on strengthening your communication and feedback loops, crucial skills for any leader aiming to enhance team dynamics and drive performance.

MODULE FOUR

Cultivating a Growth Mindset

OUTCOME

Adoption of a growth-oriented mindset in leadership challenges.

DESCRIPTION

Transform your thought patterns to foster personal and professional growth, encouraging innovation within your team. Cultivate a mindset that sees challenges as opportunities for growth and learning.

MODULE FIVE

Enhanced Communication Skills

OUTCOME

Stronger relationships and clearer communication channels.

DESCRIPTION

Develop skills to communicate effectively with your team, enhancing clarity and understanding. This module aims to bridge communication gaps, ensuring that you and your team are always on the same page.

MODULE SIX

Strategic Decision-Making

OUTCOME

More confident and effective decision-making.

DESCRIPTION

Learn to make strategic, data-informed decisions that align with your organization’s goals and mission. This knowledge will empower you to make choices that propel your organization forward, ensuring long-term success.

MODULE SEVEN

Leading Through Change

OUTCOME

Effective leadership during transitions.

DESCRIPTION

Equip yourself with the tools to lead your team through changes smoothly and effectively. Change is inevitable, and how you manage it can determine your team's success and adaptability in dynamic environments.

MODULE EIGHT

Building Strong Teams

OUTCOME

A stronger, more cohesive team.

DESCRIPTION

Focus on creating a supportive and collaborative team environment essential for high performance. By engaging in team-building activities and clarifying roles, you'll craft a unit that excels together.

MODULE NINE

Sustaining Your Leadership Growth

OUTCOME

A personalized action plan for continued leadership success.

DESCRIPTION

Consolidate your learning and plan for the future to ensure sustained growth and effective leadership. This final step is about setting the stage for continual development and success in your leadership journey.

Modules

1 Self Discovery

This is the starting point, you embark on a journey of self-discovery. By identifying your ideas, values, interests, passions, and strengths, you’ll be able to start to map out a meaningful and fulfilling future beyond your current role and identity.

Duration: 3 hours

2 Purpose Discovery

The 'Purpose Discovery' module involves deep, perhaps lengthy, reflection exercises and visualisation techniques to help you discover and validate your new purpose beyond your work identity. You will leave this module feeling empowered and confident about your next phase of life.

Duration: 3 hours

3 Process Development

In this ‘foundation’ module, you’ll start to build a clear roadmap for your journey into the future. Through a clear understanding of goal-setting and action planning, you’ll gain the tools and techniques you need to navigate this significant transition. You may well find this quite different from any change you’ve managed before.

Duration: 3 hours

4

Support Development

This module will guide you in how to prepare yourself for the way forward. You’ll learn to ‘let go’ of the ‘past’ and the need for forgiveness and gratitude to facilitate this. We’ll discover who and what to avoid and how to identify ‘partners in believing’ who’ll support you in what may be a complex period of setting yourself free.

Duration: 3 hours

5 Managing Transition

Building on the previous module, you'll learn stress management techniques, how to deal with anxiety, and resilience-building strategies. You’ll learn to have faith and belief in yourself and transmit this to others. We’ll revisit the work you did in Modules 2 and 3 and fill out any additional detail or clarity. This module prepares you emotionally to manage the way forward seamlessly.

Duration: 3 hours

6 Harvesting Transition

In this module you’ll ‘launch’ your new ‘business’ of being YOU in ‘life-after-work’. You'll learn confidence-building exercises and ongoing action planning techniques to face any future fears and uncertainties. By paying attention to your intention without tension and with the support of your ‘team’ you can be confident your expectations will be met. This module ensures you step into your next phase ‘Powered Up’ with a sense of renewed significance and life force. Perhaps it’s time for a ‘starting party’!

Duration: 3 hours

Who is it for?

A female executive in the nonprofit sector.
Facing challenges in managing teams effectively.
Feeling overwhelmed with your leadership responsibilities.

Who is it not for?

A male executive or not part of the nonprofit sector.
Not experiencing difficulties in team management.
Feeling adequately confident and in control in your leadership role.

About Michelle Mapp

I'm Michelle Mapp, a leadership coach with over twenty years of experience in nonprofit management, trained at the University of Warwick and George Washington University. My mission is to empower nonprofit executives to conquer management challenges and drive their organizations forward. I utilize advanced leadership strategies and mindset techniques gleaned from my work with prominent organizations, including the US Department of Agriculture and The Music Man Foundation, to help leaders effectively manage teams and achieve lasting success.