Full information here http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/leadershipprogramme2010

As always, please share your thoughts and comments online.  Thanks.  Karl

Particularly good starting point is the article entitled “Leadership in the Third Sector” here.

Developing or supporting leaders and developing leadership skills within the Third Sector still seems to take a low priority for most groups and indivdiuals.  Many studies demonstrate that the private sector and even the public sector are willing to invest time, effort and money in developing leadership as they understand that this has beneficial long term benefits to their organisations.  So shouldn’t we in the Third Sector be taking leadership development just as seriously?

I’ve come across this document (thanks ACEVO) which discusses (in depth) about investing in leaders.  It specifically looks at the cross over from the private sector and how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can bring private and third sector together for the mutual benefit of both through developing leaders.

Have a read.  Share your thoughts…

Simon Sinek delivers a presentation entitled “How great leaders inspire action”.  Worth a watch.  Also check out his website.

More about the book here and here.  I have a couple of copies for the Leaders Network to share around as part of my new “book club” concept.

If anyone has a view on this and would like to post a book review here, let me know.

It might talk about Competency Frameworks, which we may not all be using, but importantly it discusses what the actual competencies a leader might posses are.  How do you stack up?  How does your organisation assess, value or propel forward these competencies?

SocietyGuardian recently hosted a roundtable discussion with NAVCA looking at the state of the Third Sector to meet the challenges ahead.  The session, “Can the third sector do more with less?” makes interesting reading.  Read it here.

Alan Burley (Development Worker for East Marsh Involve) has now been on the first part of this new programme and has very positive feedback.  Alan will be at the next meeting of the Leaders Network (1st March at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre) and will be describing the programme, the training and the toolkit which we should be able to utilise.

See you at the meeting.  Karl

Our next meeting will be Monday 13th September 2010 starting at 5pm at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre.

The last meeting for this year will be 15th November.

If you’re interested in joining the network, finding out more or coming to our next meeting, get in touch.  Or just read on…

You can also download a .pdf of our latest flyer by clicking here.

Karl – Leaders Network Manager

Our network meeting on Monday 25th January tackled the subject of success.  As usual at our meetings, this was not a training course on being successful.  Nor was it training on how to succeed or even measure or monitor success.

What it was, was an open discussion to get our leaders thoughts stirred up around what success was and what it meant to them.

We covered the practical issues of measuring success.  We covered the emotional, moral and ethical aspects of success.  We looked at success academically, practically and theoretically.  We argued our points and possibly came to no conclusions whatsoever !

But it did mean we’d thought through the topic in a fresh way, and hopefully everyone left the evening thinking a bit differently.

And that’s what our leadership sessions are all about.  Any leader needs a group of peers to occasionally support or challenge their thinking.  It keeps them on their toes and enables them to continue to develop as leaders.

Invitation: If you lead something (a group, organisation, project, team, idea…) in the third sector, then why not meet with other leaders at our bi-monthly sessions to see if you can share ideas and support each other?

Next session is Monday 1st March, 5pm-7pm, venue tbc.  Contact VANEL to book.

Further reading…

Article about measuring a leaders success here.
Why failure is good for you.  An article from this months Wired magazine.

Do you have any more info you can share on this topic?  Email me.

See you at our next meeting.
Karl