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Management Skills Coaching

Help Community Empowerment Fund develop and refine their people management skills.
Community Empowerment Fund
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Chapel Hill, NC, USA

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Housing & homelessness
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Posted June 19th

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Management Skills Coaching

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What we need
  • Initial assessment of areas of strength, targets for improvement and specific areas of focus desired for the coaching sessions
  • Up to 6 coaching sessions exploring areas such as motivation, empowerment, collaboration, communication, giving / receiving feedback & conflict management
  • Wrap-up session with actionable steps and advice moving forward as a manager
Additional details

CEF has a collaborative, flat-feeling, ethics-driven and empowerment-based culture. We are a growing 10 year old non-profit where co-founders and senior employees first took on supervisory responsibilities without having supervisory experience or training. We are looking to shore up management/supervisory skills (fitting with our org culture), and would love to connect with a volunteer with a commitment to/understanding of racial equity, power dynamics, and trauma lens.

What we have in place
  • A summer intern worked with us last year to interview staff team members and create a collated toolkit/guide to inform 1-on-1 supervisory meetings, which is a helpful starting tool. What feels missing is the implementation of structure and practices in 1-on-1 meetings and the growth of healthful ongoing mutual feedback-sharing.
How this will help
This project will save us $7,248 , allowing us to offer housing, employment, and financial empowerment support to more members of our community.

As we have grown, staff have named supervisory support as a critically important area where growth is needed. We desire to implement more robust supervisory practices that fit well with organizational culture with an equity/justice and trauma-sensitive lens, to be able to more deeply support staff with implementation and growth of programs.

Project plan

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Prep: Initial Assessment
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager discuss perceived areas of strength, areas of improvement, and asses direct report or team motivation and morale
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager decide on specific areas to focus on and goals for each coaching session
  • Volunteer Manager and Professional discuss if feedback from direct reports, peers or managers should be part of the process
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Milestone 1: Coaching Sessions
  • In-depth coaching sessions on topics like motivation, empowerment, collaboration, communication, giving / receiving feedback & conflict management
  • Ensure each session is followed by a trial period to apply the skills and report back at subsequent sessions on the outcomes, learnings and follow-up questions
  • [Suggested Session] Motivating and empowering direct reports to achieve the most productivity, creativity and job satisfaction
  • [Suggested Session] Effective communication and strategies how to give and receive feedback to ensure a constructive relationship between managers and direct reports
  • [Suggested Session] Strategies to ensure successful collaboration between managers and direct reports like establishing areas of ownership and effective delegation
  • [Suggested Session] Conflict management tactics for dealing with interpersonal conflict within teams or across teams
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Milestone 2: Wrap-up & Learnings
  • Volunteer Manager and Professional evaluate lessons learned and progress made throughout coaching sessions
  • Volunteer Manager and Professional discuss action steps and areas of focus going forward
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About the org

Community Empowerment Fund
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Housing & homelessness Community & economic development Human services
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Janet X.

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Our mission

The Community Empowerment Fund offers savings opportunities, financial education, and assertive support to individuals who are seeking employment, housing, and financial freedom. The opportunities for employment and greater housing that CEF advances motivate participants to build personal assets, gain higher income, engage in a healthy community, and sustain transitions out of poverty.

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