The Ekedahl Center for Nonprofit Excellence has a full slate of training programs and workshops scheduled!

Lowcountry Executive Director Coaching Program

The Lowcountry Executive Director Coaching Program is a peer-based learning program that includes group learning meetings and individual coaching sessions for six Lowcountry executive directors. This program is conducted by Neil Sklarew, an experienced executive coach and past manager of the Georgia Center for Nonprofit’s consulting group.

The program includes alternating monthly group and individual meetings with Neil for twelve months. Group meetings are five hours and individual coaching sessions are 60-90 minutes long. Group sessions will be determined once classroom participants have been identified. Individual sessions will be personally scheduled.

The focus of this coaching experience is to address the executive director’s “use of self” in effectively working with his/her primary constituents (board, staff, volunteers, clients, etc.) While provides tools and skills development on nonprofit topics such as board development, staff development and strategic planning, the primary goal is to develop the executive director’s self-knowledge and skill to effectively work with others around issues of communicating, decision making, managing conflict, managing stress and influencing others.