Have you recently moved from all-volunteer to a newly staffed organization?  Or are you just beginning to fully involve and engage your board?  Nonprofit organizations often follow a predictable path.  Join ICL for this opportunity to inspect your organization and its growth.  Use a practical framework, based on ICL’s  "Four Stages and Four Challenges of Organizational Development" article, to analyze your organization's development over time, and get tips for overcoming barriers to board effectiveness.
Based on ICL's popular "Four Stages and Four Challenges of Organizational Development" article, this audio conference will give you a practical framework for analyzing your organization's development over time and tips for overcoming barriers to board effectiveness.

Level: Introductory or refresher.

In this 60-minute session you will gain a better understanding of the board's role in relation to your organization's stage of development.  In many ways, taking the responsibility of managing and building an organization is like assuming the duties of parenthood.  It is sometimes helpful to remember that many challenges are related to different "phases" and passing through them is part of an organizational learning process.  In this audio conference we will use ICL's four stage tool to examine your organization's development, what the implications are for your board, and what challenges may lie ahead.

By the end of the audio conference you will be able to:

• Discuss four stages of organization development
• Identify what stage your organization is in now and what that means for your board
• Review a tool to help you develop next steps for overcoming challenges.

For more information contact Bonnie Haigh at (406)582- 1838x 2 or bonnie(at)icl.org.