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Learning from the Future:  

How to create a breakthrough organization for fundraising

Presented by Bernard Ross

Dramatically improve your strategic ability to think in new and creative ways.

Promote higher levels of creativity and innovation at individual and team levels.

Acquire the tools you need to plan and instigate change in the strategic, operational and cultural nature of your fundraising team.

PLUS:

  • Approaches to strategy 

  • Setting breakthrough directions  

  • Fundraising Portfolio Analysis

  • Creating a Breakthrough culture   

  • New ways to think and plan  New ways to organize and structure

  • Composing a strategic approach  Organizational potential

PLUS: A complimentary three-month subscription to Canadian FundRaiser.

"Bernard Ross is a creative, high energy guy I regard as the top speaker in our world for making training fun, incredibly insightful and memorable.

Don't miss a chance to laugh and learn with Bernard Ross."

Jane Garthson

Mills Garthson & Associates

Toronto, Ontario

"Bernard Ross' wit and energy are paralleled by his extraordinary (yet practical) knowledge of fundraising, strategy and leadership - laugh and learn - it will be well worth your time!"

Cynthia Armour

Principal

Elderstone Resource Development  

Learn the secrets of Transformational Performance for Your Organization

This cutting edge program will help you think in new and imaginative ways about yourself, your fundraising team and your organization. It will enable you to achieve breakthroughs in fundraising performance.

The program is based on three years research and in house work with large and small charitable non-profit organizations in the USA, Europe, Asia and Africa. This program has helped many nonprofit organizations transform the way they organize and plan their fundraising work. Now these ideas are being brought to Canada.

This programme will provide you with tools - a range of practical action techniques you can take away and use. Some of the tools are easy and quick to use. And some are more challenging.

It's worth the investment for the breakthrough.

In two stretching days you will gain a 'toolbox' of management ideas and learn from =mc's groundbreaking work with other organizations.

Is this program for you?

You will find the program of significant benefit if you are a:

  • Fundraising manager keen to change the culture of your organization and your attitude to financing 

  • Manager who wants access to a 'toolbox' of ideas and approaches to help engineer breakthroughs

  • Fundraising manager who needs to meet a new, and significant fundraising challenge

 What will you gain?

The program will offer some very practical benefits:

  • Ideas on how to dramatically improve your own strategic ability to think in new and creative ways

  • Insights on how to promote higher levels of creativity and innovation at an individual and team level

  • Tools to plan and instigate change in the strategic, operational and cultural nature of your fundraising team

Key modules

The program will be based around a number of modules. As you would expect in an interactive program these will be adapted to meet the needs of the group. Among the modules we expect to cover are:

 Approaches to Strategy

  • The limitations of conventional models

  • Emerging versus breakthrough strategy

  • Creating strategic architecture

Creativity and Innovation in Fundraising

  • Assessing your innovation index

  • Promoting creativity in fundraising

  • Innovation and implementation strategies

Setting Breakthrough Directions

  • 4 strategic fundraising options

  • Assessing strategic competence

  • Breakout approaches

Fundraising Portfolio Analysis

  • Life cycles of your current strategies

  • Return on Investment (ROI) in fundraising

  • Identifying 'breakthrough' offerings

  • Evaluating your portfolio

Creating a Breakthrough Culture

  • Kaizen and Horshin approaches

  • Analyzing current culture

  • Sustaining a breakthrough culture

  • The context of change

New Ways to Think and Plan

  • G&H thinking

  • Speeding decision processes

  • 'Hard' and 'soft' thinking

  • Using your brain better

New Ways to Organize and Structure

  • Trends in organizational structure

  • Identifying strategic business units

  • Creating boundaryless teams

Composing a Strategic Approach

  • Creating strategic architecture

  • Organizing strategic learning

  • Identifying the strategic impulse

  • Creating future history

Organizational Potential

  • Distinguishing 'stop' and 'stretch' goals

  • Breaking out of mind sets

  • Unlocking organizational potential

  • Reason for challenge

  • Responses to change

Learning Structures

As you expect from a program of this nature, a wide range of learning approaches will be used:

  • Case studies from the not-for-profit and private sectors

  • Small syndicate projects

  • Personal learning and innovation logs

  • 'Breakthrough' sessions

  • Accelerated learning techniques

Documentation

We will back the program input up with extensive documentation. The Breakthrough Strategy manual contains all the key ideas and principles which also underpin the breakthrough approach.


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