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Education and training are a vital part of any board’s development and success. Leading a board or committees takes time and intention –– from setting expectations, to cultivating board members and leaders, and addressing conflict when it arises. In this 90-minute webinar, Leadership Montgomery provides actionable steps and tools to assist you in increasing board effectiveness and engagement. Learn how to foster a shared understanding of the role of board members, resolve organizational and interpersonal conflict, and plan for long-term leadership succession.

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• Presentation slides
  • Group reflection questions to consider as a board (see slide 13 “4 stages of group development”):
    • What phase are we in?
    • What is this phase offering us?
    • What challenges are we experiencing in this phase?
    • What could we practice, to optimize the gifts without getting stuck in the challenges?
  • Personal reflection questions to consider about archetypes (see slides 14-19):
    • Calling to mind a conflict I’ve experience, what are the archetypes that I inhabited in that conflict?
    • What did I most need when I was in those archetypes?
    • Is there a particular archetype I habitually tend towards?
• Moving from dissonance to harmony: Managing conflict on the board
• Turning towards each other: A conflict workbook
• Mediation Model
• Sample Board Commitment Worksheet

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When it comes to running an organization’s finances, there’s a mountain of intricate topics to address. From budgeting, to audits, to financial reporting, and so much more. The role of managing healthy organizational finances takes a lot of work and a lot of knowledge. We know it can be valuable to be able to ask experts your questions who have been in your shoes. In this webinar, Paula Garret, NCJW Treasurer, and Patty Rubin, NCJW Assistant Treasurer, provide advice on navigating section finance questions and concerns. Learn from their combined 80 years of experience in finance. View the presentation slides.

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After almost a year of experiencing a pandemic, many crises, and the full range of emotions that have come with these challenges, exhaustion and burnout are real concerns. And yet, our work must continue. In this webinar learn practices to avoid burnout. Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, NCJW’s Scholar in Residence, shares how experiencing joy (yes, even today) and holding a vision for the future world we’re working to create can replenish our energy and help sustain us in our NCJW social justice pursuits.

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How are you measuring the impact of your community service and advocacy efforts? Do you have a clear definition of the success of your initiatives and how to quantify it? In this webinar, Marilyn Colby Rivkin, NCJW Vice President, and Paula Garret, NCJW Treasurer, share evaluation tools and techniques that integrate evaluation into all of the work you do. You’ll walk away with a framework to help your section use evaluation data to focus and enhance your current and future efforts.

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• Presentation Slides
• What is evaluation?
• Program Evaluation Worksheet: pdf version and word doc version (right click and open in new tab to download)
• Sample Completed Program Evaluation Worksheet