Our ‘Managing to Make a Difference’ series will dramatically improve your skills in leading, managing or relating to organisations in the not-for-profit sector.

These Short Courses will:

• Update you in the latest not-for-profit management thinking and practice
• Provide tools and frameworks that will make a difference in your organisation tomorrow
• Provide valuable opportunities to network and share practice with others.

Who are they for?

• Managers, Board members, paid staff and volunteers of not-for-profit organisations
• Local and central government officials
• Iwi, business and community leaders
• Social Service and Health based organisations
• Those interested in working within or with the not-for-profit sector

You will receive a Unitec certificate after completion of the course.

Short Courses Available

Professional Mentoring and Supervision Skills
Train the Trainers
Governance
Community Funding
Understanding your Organisation’s finances
Developing and Managing Staff Performance
Conflict Management
Legal Issues
Working for Effective Employment Relations – Workplace Wellbeing
Understanding the Media

 

Train the Trainers

On this course you will find out what makes learning happen and how to design and deliver interactive training sessions that make even the most boring subjects interesting!

Bring along an idea for a training workshop and we will take you through the steps to take it from a good idea to a successful training event that fully involves learners in the process.

Content:

• What makes learning happen - determinants of learning
• Training essentials - writing aims and learning objectives
• Designing training that works
• Creative training techniques
• Making boring subjects interesting
• Creating involvement
• Dealing with sensitive topics
• Dealing with difficult participants
• Up front delivery skills
• Evaluating effectiveness

Indicative Cost:

$95 per attendee

2013 Dates:

Christchurch - 9 May 2013

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Governance in Not-for-profit organisations

Increase your understanding of 'good governance' for not-for-profit organisations and evaluate the effectiveness of your Board.

Topics include:

• Governance and management defined
• How Boards can add value
• How to avoid the common pitfalls
• Key functions of the Board
• Inherent dilemmas for Boards
• Board members – roles, rights and responsibilities
• Board – staff relations
• Effective meetings.

Indicative Cost:

$95 per attendee

 

Location	2013 Dates	Host
Christchurch	2 February	Volunteering Canterbury
Hamilton	6 March	Community Waikato
Hamilton	2 October	Community Waikato
Auckland	12 October

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Community Funding

This course will improve your skills in developing funding strategies for your organisation that focus on long-term survival and success.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss ways to develop effective and healthy relationships with funders
• Identify sources of funds for community based organisations
• Discuss strategies for funding community organisations and projects
• Identify ways to develop funding strategies appropriate for their own organisation.

Location	2013 Dates	Host
TBC	TBC	TBC

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Understanding your Organisation's Finances

Increase your understanding of basic financial concepts and processes necessary for good governance and management of not-for-profit organisations.

Topics include:

• Financial stewardship – the roles and responsibilities
• How are we doing? A financial health check for your organisation
• Reading financial statements and drawing conclusions
• Beyond figure phobias – understanding the language
• Checks and balances for a sound financial system
• Planning, budgeting and reporting cycles.

Location	2013 Dates	Host
TBC	TBC	TBC

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Developing and Managing Staff Performance

This course will improve your abilities to motivate, manage and evaluate the performance of others in ways that work in your not-for-profit organisation.

Topics include:

• What is performance management?
• The seven habits of effective performance management
• Ensuring expectations are set and met in work teams
• Dealing with non-performance
• Performance appraisal
• The art of feedback – having constructive conversations about performance
• Coaching and mentoring in the workplace.

Indicative Cost:

$95 per attendee

 

Location	2013 Dates	Host
Auckland	12 March	Auckland Volunteer Centre

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Conflict Management

Dealing with conflict is a common part of life in not for profit organisations.

This course explores what conflict looks like, the impact it can have on an organisation and equips participants with the tools to create an environment to minimise the negative impact of conflict. Mediation skills are looked at and practised for those times when conflict occurs.

Topics include the nature of conflict, creating a positive environment to minimise and manage conflict, personal conflict management styles, getting to a win-win and mediation skills.

Location	2013 Dates	Host
TBC	TBC	TBC

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Legal Issues: Hot Topics for Not-for-Profit Organisations

Are you familiar with legal issues that may impact on your organisation? This course is run by a not-for-profit law expert and introduces you to what you need to know if you are establishing or working in a not-for-profit organisation.

Topics include

• How the law works and how it affects organisations and not for profit management, organisational structures and founding documents
• Legal duties of governing bodies, staff and volunteers
• The effects of The Charities Act 2005.

Location	2013 Dates	Host
TBC	TBA	TBC

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Working for Effective Employment Relations – Workplace Wellbeing

This workshop aims to

• Increase participants' awareness and understanding of employment relations law, employment issues and practices in the community and voluntary sector
• Provide tools to support participants to be active in promoting and maintaining good faith relationships in the workplace
• Provide managers and employers with information and resources that will support community sector employers to think more strategically about ways they can work collectively to enhance employment relationships.

Location	2013 Dates	Host
TBC	TBA	TBC

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Understanding the Media

It is the aim of this course to provide managers of not for profit organisations with the skills and knowledge to effectively manage their organisation's relationship with the news media.

Course Objectives

• Understanding of the news media processes
• Identify strategies for developing effective media relations
• Analyse the concept of news values
• Demonstrate use of key messages in a media interview
• Identify the main components of a news release.

Location	2013 Dates	Host
TBC	TBC	TBC

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How to Enrol

Please contact the local host organisation in the city where the course will be held. The host organisation will advise you of the cost and venue of the workshops.

Location	Organisation	Phone	Email
Auckland	Unitec Institute of Technology	09 815 4321 ext 5069	hstarfoged@unitec.ac.nz
Dunedin	Dunedin COSS	03 4716177	sue@dcoss.org.nz
Christchurch	Volunteering Canterbury	03 366 2442	mgr@volcan.org.nz
Blenheim	Volunteer Marlborough	03 577 9388	vm@volunteermarlborough.org.nz
Wellington	Volunteer Wellington	04 499 4570	julie@volunteerwellington.org.nz
New Plymouth	Action Foundation	06 759 1178	ceo@bishopsactionfoundation.org.nz
Hawkes Bay	Volunteering HB	06 833 6691	manager@volunteeringhb.org.nz
Gisborne	Volunteer Centre	06 868 4522	gisvolunteercentre@xtra.co.nz
Rotorua	ROSSCO	07 349 4440	rossco@callplus.net.nz
Tauranga	Volunteer WBOP	07 571 3714	mgr@volunteerwbop@xtra.co.nz
Hamilton	Community Waikato	07 838 1583	sally@communitywaikato.org.nz
Manukau	Manukau CC	09 262 5441	hazel.hodgkin@manukau.govt.nz
North Shore	NSCSS	09 486 4820	yvonne@nscss.org.nz

 

Last edited: 22 April 2013