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High turnover, inexperience, job insecurity, burnout, and anxiety are among the common problems faced by nonprofit agencies and the people that staff them. These agencies often lack the financial resources to hire professionals that can help them overcome these obstacles and serve their clientele effectively and efficiently.
The Pilgrims’ Partner Foundation seeks to fill this gap by providing grants for services that will help nonprofits become more effective at meeting their clients’ needs. The range of services offered includes staff evaluations, workshops, and retreats. We have assisted nonprofit staff members develop useful communication skills, improve organization effectiveness, and find well-being within the routinely chaotic nonprofit environment. Our services are not only geared toward nonprofit staff, but their boards of directors as well.
Below is a sampling of topics covered in previous staff development retreats and workshops.
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Communication Skills
- Basic principles
- Building rapport
- Conflict resolution
- Applications of Neurolinguistic Programming
- Working with difficult people
- Emotion-handling skills
- Empathy
- Assertiveness
- Negotiation skills
Organizational Effectiveness
- Strategic planning
- Team building
- Feedback
- Evaluation
- Needs assessment
- Outcome measures
- Appreciative inquiry
- Cultural sensitivity
- Creating concise job descriptions
- Staff recruitment
- Staff retention
- Creating trust
- Creative problem solving
- Interviewing & evaluating job applicants
- Time management
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Well-Being
- Sustainability in work & life
- Stress management
- Burnout prevention
- Meditation
- Self-hypnosis
- Personal & professional balance
- Renewal in the present moment
- Intimate partner relationships
- Coping with change
- Coping with uncertainty
- Emotional intelligence
- Value clarification
- Spirituality
- Simple lifestyle
- Family dynamics
- Motivating behavior change
- Self-efficacy
- Humor
- Developing creativity
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