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In this session, we will be looking at how to continue to move forward and develop in your growing edge. We will be starting in an unlikely place: resistance. As much as you need encouragement and the right environment, you also need resistance to help you progress and develop your growing edge.
Read MoreJoin The Nonprofit Association of Oregon’s free offering for members! This is an opportunity to consider how we might adjust strategy to not just survive this crisis, but to thrive.
Read MoreYour programs are invaluable to our society. We need you. But these days are uncertain. The pandemic has changed everything. Whoever first said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste” was spot on. And yet many of us will.
We are going to redesign your strategy for that program. We are going to take a thoughtful, robust, disciplined approach. And in the process of redesigning strategy, we will accomplish three other critical objectives to make the most of the opportunity.
Read MoreWe’ve heard from some of you that it’s a struggle to keep your evaluation alive during this time of so much change and uncertainty. We’ve also been inspired by some great examples from some of you who have figured out new ways to use evaluation to stay focused on what really matters during these unprecedented times. This gave us the perfect topic to kick off our quarterly community webinar series! Join us on Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 9:30 AM Pacific Time to learn more.
Read MoreThe fourth vlog of this series is with Nancy Farries, Vice President of RDC with YMCA of Greater Vancouver, and Margo Byrne, President & CEO of the Channel Islands YMCA.
Read MoreNow that you have identified your growing edge, it's time to explore how to move forward and develop your ability to evolve in this area. How do we pursue the things we want to pursue in life? How do you become the person you want to be in life? How do we let go of the things that no longer serves a purpose for us? And finally, how do we show up in new kinds of ways that can help us be the best we can be? These are the kinds of thoughts we need to have in order to work on our growing edge and ourselves.
Read MoreThe third vlog of this series is with Jennifer Gray-Grant, Executive Director of Collingwood Neighbourhood House, and Kahir Lalji, Provincial Director of Population Health with United Way of the Lower Mainland.
Read MoreCharacteristics of a Growing Edge:
It’s about you, not your team or organization
It’s not a technical skill to get better, but rather a personal capacity to develop
It’s oriented towards having an impact or in service to something significant
It pushes you into a zone of “stretch” or “productive discomfort”
If you could make progress on your growing edge it would have implications in many areas of your life and/or work
The second vlog of this series is with Kim Winchell, Director of Social Impact, Community Impact & Investment with United Way of the Lower Mainland, and Simon Adams, Vice President of Membership Growth Initiative with YMCA Regional Development Centre - Canada West.
Read MoreIn partnership with the YMCA of Canada, Dr. Steve Patty is producing a Leadership and Personal Development Series, taking viewers through seven parts on how to grow and nurture your personal leadership. How do you maximize your ability to move forward on the things that really matter in your life? How do you lead yourself? In each of the seven episodes, Dr. Patty will walk you through one key idea and invite you to try an action step.
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