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Working Together for Greater Impact:

Strengthening Your Work With Other Organizations

The Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL) is pleased to announce a brand new program for cooperative efforts. When organizations come together for a common cause the results can be big.We are offering this new program to ensure this work is successful and has the intended and greatest impact.

Program Description:

Working Together for Greater Impact  gives teams the tools to drive and strengthen cooperative efforts, partnerships, and coalitions. An intensive results-oriented program focused on practices and solutions for success with work across organizations.  This program includes three days of training and eight hours of follow-up coaching in which teams will work on issues and apply solutions to their cooperative efforts.  Expect to come away from the program with a strong core team to lead cooperative missions and achieve goals and with a plan to do so already underway.

Participants in Working Together will:

• Create a strong core team to lead and sustain your cooperative efforts
• Assess and prioritize ways to strengthen your work together
• Improve your groups planning, communication and coordinated action
• Better manage the inevitable tensions such as the give/get ratio, fundraising, and sharing the limelight
• Improve your leadership skills and confidence
• Create an action plan and receive coaching support as you implement in over the next 6 months

Who should attend?

Working Together for Greater Impact is for leaders who want to meet the goals and make the most of the work they do with other organizations.  For this program, please select a team of three leaders with a role in the effort each representing different organizations.  This group will act as a core team for the cooperative effort.  Please contact us with suggestions selecting your team.

When and Where:

Date: February 24-27, 2008

Application Due: December 14 , 2007
Limited slots still open

Dunrovin Retreat Center, MN (Near Minneapolis/ St. Paul)

Tuition

The cost includes three days of training sessions and eight hours of follow-up coaching, materials, lodging in a double room, and meals.

The program tuition is $5,000 for the team of three (with an additional $500 for each added team member)

Travel:  Participants must attend with full team and are responsible for travel expenses to and from the workshop session.

Application Fee: A non-refundable application fee of $250 is due with the application by November 26,2007. This fee is applied to the tuition upon acceptance; those not accepted into the program will have their application fee refunded in full.

Cancellation Policy: For cancellations more than 30 days prior to the first workshop of a long-term program, ICL will refund the balance of tuition paid less the non-refundable application fee. ICL provides no refund for cancellation within one month of the first workshop or at any time during the course of the program. A $30 fee will be charged for any returned check.

How to Apply

Applications are due December 14, 2007.
Limited slots still open

Click here to Download the application form.

Please contact us and we will complete an assessment with you to construct a team from your organization and your cooperative effort.

Training Team

Barbara Rusmore is a Senior Program Associate with the Institute for Conservation Leadership. She received her Doctorate in Organizational Development and has spent more than 25 years working in the field of environmental consulting and program development. Barbara played a lead role in developing the Institute's Executive Director Program and she is currently Project Director for the Institute's Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture program, a multi-year program to build better communications between sustainable agriculture groups and scientific food and agriculture societies in the US.

Dr. Peter Bloome is an Agricultural Engineer who recently retired as Associate Director of the Oregon State University Extension Service. His 37-year career included 14 years in Oklahoma, 13 in Illinois and numerous international work experiences. Peter served as the first director of, and then as an advisor to, the CAST Conversations of Change Program. He currently is the CAST consultant and Trainer on the program team of Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture.

Pam Mavrolas, consultant to the Institute for Conservation Leadership, lives in Helena, Montana. For more than 28 years, she has staffed, directed and/or been a consultant to a variety of community-based non-profits dealing with agricultural, natural resource, and environmental issues. Pam served for 5 years as the Executive Director of Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO), a grassroots membership organization promoting sustainable agriculture, "smart growth" and community self-reliance. Her consulting firm, Mavrolas and Associates works primarily with sustainable agriculture, environmental, arts, and cultural nonprofits. Her areas of specialty include: strategic planning; program and campaign development; evaluation; staff management and team building; board and leadership development; foundation fundraising and grant writing, and organizational problem-solving. Mavrolas holds a MS from the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan.

For More Information

Contact Bonnie Haigh at 406-582-1838 ext. 1or bonnie[at]icl.org or Barbara Rusmore at 406-582-1838 ext. 2 or email barbara[at]icl.org.