Strengthening Organizations That Serve Communities
What is Managance Coaching?
It is a series of dynamic conversations that significantly improve your performance and achievement. You will work directly with Managance Coaches - seasoned nonprofit and business professionals who have held senior executive positions and served on boards of directors. Our conversations will be built around:
- Curious questioning
- Open listening
- Appreciative discovery
- Constructive feedback and
- Heightened trust
These future directed conversations help professional and volunteer leaders of community-focused nonprofits and philanthropies. By working with our coaches, we help you tap into your own wisdom and design just the right actions to help you manage effectively, inspire fellow co-workers or Board members and ensure stellar organization performance. Our clients include:
- Executive Directors
- Deputy Directors and Other Senior Staff Members
- Board Officers
What value can I expect from Managance Coaching?
- Clarity like the kind you find when a fog is lifted
- Understanding like the kind you find when an image comes into focus in your camera lens
- Confidence like the kind you find when friends and family cheer you on
- Ideas like the kind you find when you attend a great course or conference
- Direction like the kind you find when you type an address into your GPS
- Energy like the kind you find from disciplined training and inspiring motivators
- Solutions like the kind you find when you think differently about a problem
- Courage like the kind you find when you succeed at something new
What topics can I expect to work on with my coach?
Examples of specific topics our clients find essential to their success:
- Enhancing performance under challenging circumstances
- Cultivating an organizational culture that attracts and retains exceptional staff and volunteers
- Thinking strategically and generatively so you can take your organization to the next level
- Supporting senior executives in new positions
- and much more…just ask us!
What types of coaching are available?
- One-on-One Via Telephone
- The ability to talk openly with a confidential thinking partner.
- Time to think through options thoughtfully and caringly.
- An experienced “sounding board” to keep you focused on achieving your goals.
- One-on-One In Person (Greater Baltimore/Washington DC and Greater Vancouver, BC areas)
- The ability to talk face-to-face with a confidential partner.
- Opportunities to safely explore options for new leadership and management behaviors.
- Expert suggestions on dealing with organizational changes and challenges.
- Team Coaching Via Telephone (for up to 6 people from one organization)
- Access to recent research and promising leadership and management practices.
- Tested advice from an experienced practitioner.
- Creativity sparked by genuine dialogue.
- Group Coaching Via Telephone and Email (for up to 6 people in similar positions from different organizations)
- Opportunities to tap into your group’s collective wisdom.
- Chances to explore and test out new ideas with your peers.
- Varied perspectives on dealing with stressful situations.
- Currently we are forming groups for Executive Directors, Senior Staff Members, and Board Chairs.
WE ARE ALSO OFFERING STARTING SMART COACHING. This is a 6-month program with follow-up at 9 and 12 months to help executive directors in their first 6 months in a new position to act Soulfully, Mindfully, Astutely, Responsibly and Trustingly.
You get opportunities to:
- Manage yourself well throughout your transition.
- Establish your credibility quickly throughout your new organization.
- Accelerate your contributions to your new organization.
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