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by John Tropman, PhD,
Professor of Nonprofit Management, School of Social Work and Adjunct
Professor of Management and Organizations,
Ross Business School
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
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Sunday: April 29, 2007
New Participants Orientation and Social Gathering
John Tropman and Dan Magnuson
Monday: April 30, 2007
Board Governance for Human Service
Organizations
- A strong board/–executive
partnership is the foundation of high performing nonprofit
human service organizations. This workshop blends state -of
–the-art research in organizational development with
practical lessons learned by one of the country’s foremost
nonprofit leaders. It offers participants an understanding
of the appropriate roles of volunteer and executive
leadership, as, together, they build a forward-thinking
organization prepared to respond to a rapidly changing
environment.
Presenters: Peter Goldberg, CEO, Alliance for Children
and Families
John Tropman, Professor, University of Michigan
Dan Magnuson, Executive Director, The Counseling Center of
Milwaukee
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Transforming Your
Service and Treatment Technology in Response to Today’s
Evidence-Based Environment and Student Presentations
- Over the years, integration
of evidence-based or research-based programming has become a
critical ingredient for agency sustainability. Many federal
grants, state government contracts, foundations, and even
accreditation bodies now require "evidence-based" program
models and/or interventions.
Organizations are grappling with how to infuse their current
programming with these promoted practices or how to
completely re-tool their interventions, curricula, and
program models. Agencies are working to re-invent their menu
of services, beginning with a revision of their service
philosophy and theory of change. Additionally, the
"evidence-based" models come with rigorous evaluation
requirements and intensive staff training requirements.
In this session, we will discuss various terms used to
describe evidence-based or research-based programs and
examine which program models are being shelved for more
effective and efficient models. We will review search
engines and examine tools that can be used to re-design
programs, articulate theories of change, and plan
evaluations. We will discuss strategies and implications for
transitioning an organization's menu of services. Discussion
and content will include human resource responsiveness,
maximizing use of facilities, treatment technology shifts,
evaluation and program quality monitoring systems, and
tactical and strategic planning.
Presenter: Sue Ann Savas, MSW, Adjunct Professor,
University of Michigan School of Social Work
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
An Evaluation of
Organizational Information Systems
- Management information
systems have quickly proliferated into all aspects of
organizational life. With the sums of money invested in
these systems and the amount of time and energy they require
to maintain and operate, they naturally avail themselves to
being evaluated. Executives will learn how cybernetic
management principles, such as Stafford Beer's (1985) Viable
System Model (VSM), can be used in evaluating an agency's
systems of information with the aim of improving design.
Beer applied cybernetic principles to organizational
functioning due to his appreciation of the complexity of
forces involved in the organizational enterprise involving
people, technology, and information.
Executives will acquire a methodology that will aid them in
understanding and improving the flow of information in their
organization. They, in turn, will be able to employ this
methodology in managing work teams that will evaluate an
organization's information system.
The decision to install or customize an existing MIS is not
cost inconsequential either at time of purchase or in
ongoing maintenance. Indeed, a possible outcome of
conducting a cybernetic evaluation of an organization's
systems of information may be the decision not to purchase
or upgrade a MIS. However, rarely do our organizations
evaluate their analog systems of information in terms of the
same costs with staff time and information lost. When the
wasteful processes associated with managing analog
information are added on, then the benefits of a MIS might
start to make sense.
Presenter: Dale Fitch, Ph.D., MSW, Assistant Professor of
Social Work, University of Michigan
Managing and Leveraging
Generations at Work
- Today's workforce consists
of four generations, with each generation approaching work
differently and contributing a unique perspective. In some
organizations, these inter-generational differences result
in conflict and less productive work environments. In this
session, we will address this issue by exploring the work
values of Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and
Generation Y employees. In addition, we will develop a
framework that helps executives coach and manage
inter-generational teams with the goals of creating of
win-win work situations for each generation and the
maximization of team performance.
The session will begin by examining the human resource and
client service implications of generational diversity. We
will then employ a sociological perspective to understand
inter-generational work group dynamics. Lastly, we will
conclude by using appreciative inquiry as a strategy for
managing inter-generations at work by focusing on:
- Assessing and affirming
generational differences;
- Building bridges to
support generational diversity; and
- Cultivating an
organizational culture and capabilities through
generational diversity.
Presenter: Lynn Wooten,
Ph.D., MBA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Strategy and
Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Resource Development
for Nonprofit Organizations
- In an area of ever
increasing restrictions and conditions on funding, the need
for philanthropic support from individuals has never been
more pressing. The vast majority of charitable funding is
provided by individuals. Yet, as compared to higher
education, health, and arts, many nonprofit human service
organizations are hard pressed to attract such support.. To
do so depends on building a culture of philanthropy
throughout the organization. Leaders of the Alliance’s
highly successful, ten10- year -old Resource Development
Services initiative offer participants strategies which have
for many Alliance members dramatically increased
philanthropic support for many Alliance members.
Presenters: Robert Jones, President & CEO, Children’s Aid
and Family Services, Paramus, NJ, and Betsy Vander Velde,
The Family Conservancy, Kansas City, KS
Strategic Financial Leadership
- Nonprofit financial life is
complex and differs greatly from for- profit enterprises. It
is not well understood by many donors and board members.
Executive leadership is called upon to present and manage
the fiscal operation of the organization well, especially in
light of a rapidly changing funding climate. This session
offers participant’s methods to better understood how to
better gauge the cost of services, benchmark their operation
in terms of administrative expenses and overhead, and manage
communication to internal and external stakeholders about
these critical issues.
Presenter: Clara Miller, President and CEO Nonprofit
Finance Fund, New York
Friday, May 4, 2007
Future Trends in Human
Service Leadership
- Leadership in human services
is in the midst of great change. This session will focus on
integrating organizational leadership and design, diversity,
finance, and change management within the context of the
mission and role of human services in our society.
Presenters: John Tropman, Professor, University of
Michigan
Dan Magnuson, Executive Director, The Counseling Center of
Milwaukee
Undraye Howard, Director of Consultation and Leadership
Services, Alliance for Children and Families
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