Leadership – A Cross-Cutting Issue
No matter what area of consulting CRE begins an engagement in, we almost always encounter the need to address leadership issues. Over the years, CRE has developed a vast body of knowledge and experience enabling us to offer consulting, coaching and workshops in such areas as: leading and managing; engaging others in a vision; optimizing key relationships; empowering individuals and teams; and planning and facilitating results. In a sector that is constantly concerned with sustainability, The Leadership Center at CRE is our investment towards strengthening leadership capacity and feeding the leadership pipeline in the nonprofit, and specifically the CBO, sector.
CRE’s point of view on leadership in the nonprofit sector is contrary to the prevailing wisdom. We believe that the nonprofit sector has a tremendous leadership talent pool. Rather than the much-discussed issue of a leadership deficit in the sector, we see the critical issue as the shortage of sector-relevant, high-impact, non-episodic leadership development opportunities. Intensifying the situation is the increasing demands on today’s CBO leaders. Their challenge has changed from simply focusing on survival and doing well to creating innovation. It has come to mean navigating complex change, connecting layers of stakeholders, attending to demonstrable outcomes, and continuously building teams.Our service goals are to:
- Provide nonprofits and CBOs cost-effective access to best practices and state-of-the-arts thinking on leadership issues, thereby re-generating and sustaining the leadership capacity of their organizations
- Ensure that the nonprofit sector’s leadership pipeline is well primed with the next generation of leaders
CRE aims to achieve two outcomes in our Leadership work:
- CBO leaders are able to lead their organizations more effectively towards social change.
- The CBO sector has a robust pipeline of leaders within their organizations and across organizations.
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