Professional Development Tools to Help Enhance Your Career
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Professional Development Tools to Help Enhance Your Nonprofit
Career
Dr. Heather Carpenter Alaina ClarkeRachel Gregg
Grand Valley State University
Who We Are
• Russell G. Mawby Fellowship• Dorothy A. Johnson Center of Philanthropy• School of Public, Nonprofit and Health
Administration
Learning Objectives
• Hear key findings from the 2013 Professional Development Needs Assessment of Michigan nonprofits.
• Complete a personalized professional development needs assessment designed to help you assess your own learning needs, goals and styles.
• Identify professional development tools to enhance your job skills and accelerate your nonprofit career.
What is Talent Development and Why is it Important?
• Overview of the Field• Previous Needs Assessments– Marketing, Collaborative Partnerships, Resource
Development, Planning, and Information Systems• Missing Information– Accessible Professional Development Training
Formats
2013 Nonprofit Needs Assessment
• Online Survey through Johnson Center• 138 Respondents• In Existence for at least 10 years• 5-15 Board members• 0-5 FTE staff
Health/H
uman Se
rvice
Public/So
cietal
Benefit
Arts/C
ulture
Education
Environment/W
ildlife
Philanth
ropy
Recreati
on
Religious
Other
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10
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60
Organizational Type
Num
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f Org
aniz
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Findings
• Importance of Professional Development– 73% offer PD training to staff– 51% offer PD training to board– An average of 2% of annual budget is allocated for
PD
What sources do you use to seek out PD?
What nonprofit PD training topics interest you?E.g. Financial Management
Most Crucial Training Needs
• Board of Directors’ Training• Program Evaluation and Data-Based Decision
Making• Technology, Marketing, Communications and
Social Media
What is your preferred PD training format?
Accessible Professional Development Training Formats
• Workshops• One-half day or less• Thursday mornings• Located 50 miles or less from office
Recommendations
• PD should be offered in shorter segments• PD should be relevant to both the individual
and sector standards• PD should be thought of more
comprehensively
70 – 20 – 10
• Center for Creative Leadership– 70% of learning from stretch assignments– 20% of learning from developing relationships – 10% of learning from workshops and trainings
Talent Development Platform
Develop Your Talent Map•Create competencies
•Map Competencies to Job Descriptions
Professional Development Assessment Organizational •Learning Styles Assessment
Individual Professional
Development Assessment
Professional Development
Goals and Objectives
Develop and Deliver
Professional Development
Evaluate Professional
Development
Heather Carpenter & Tera Qualls, Jossey-Bass, 2015
Nonprofit Management Competencies
Nonprofit Management Competencies
• Advocacy, Public Policy and Social Change• Communications, Marketing and Public Relations• Financial Management and Social Entrepreneurship• Fundraising• Direct Service / Grantmaking• Human Resource Management and Volunteerism• Information Management• Legal and Regulatory Contexts• Leadership and Governance• Planning and Evaluation
For Continued Learning
What Does this Mean for You?
• Look for organizations who offer stretch assignments and opportunities to learn and grow
• Seek out external volunteer opportunities for PD
• Staff retention
What does this mean for your PD future?
Investing in Talent: How to Reduce Employee and Volunteer Turnover and Save Your Organization Money
• March 7, March 28, and April 24, 2014 | 1-4 p.m. • This three part course will provide participants hands on tools to
invest in talent development within their organizations. Each participant and their organization will complete a six-part Professional Development Assessment Tool and process developed by the instructors of this course. The tool involves assessing employee and volunteer competencies (the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that people need to possess in order to perform their jobs) as well as identifying and creating professional development programming that is connected to the goals of the organization and tailored for learning styles.