The Challenges Group

Day

Wednesday 8 November

Time slot

11:00-12:00

This event took place over 1 year ago

Room

Harris suite
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Lynn Houmdi

Topics

Running your organisation Leadership Learning, development and skills

Overall aim

In this interactive workshop, managers, leaders and trustees will explore their own management challenges in a group of their peers while learning how peer-led management and leadership training can increase staff engagement and retention and lead to better-run, more resilient organisations delivering greater impact.

Description

In order to address the social and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow, the management and leadership of our sector needs to be well-skilled and reflect our society. The sector suffers from few formal training and development opportunities for its management and leadership teams.

The Covid pandemic demonstrated the ability of our sector to flex and respond to the key challenges of our times. However, our ability to respond has also raised expectations of the impact the third sector can deliver in areas where we might previously have expected other bodies and agencies – such as those in the public sector – to intervene.

Whatever challenges your organisation faces (funding, staffing, ED&I, governance, reputation, sustainability), the ability of its leadership and managers in addressing them is critical. Better managers make for better run organisations.

In this workshop, managers, leaders and trustees will be able to explore their own management challenges in a group of their peers. Attendees will see how The Challenges Group’s peer-led training methodology supports learning between third sector managers and leaders. We will give a short interactive demonstration of our training and participants will hear from third sector managers who have completed our training. As well as providing and recognising managerial skills, our training supports a better networked sector. More confident and better skilled managers enable greater staff engagement and ultimately improved third sector impact.

As a third sector organisation ourselves, The Challenges Group experiences many of the challenges that other third sector bodies face. Based on our relationship with the Chartered Management Institute and 15 years’ experience of delivering training globally, our Management and Leadership content is specifically tailored to the third sector in Scotland. We continuously improve the content based on our own experience and that of our peers – our training participants. We work in partnership with SCVO to provide training and have worked with over 250 of you and your peers so far. Third sector managers and leaders are busy people, but they frequently tell us of the value of learning and problem-solving alongside their peers in the safe, supportive environment of our online and in-person training.

Come along to this session to find out about how The Challenges Group, the Chartered Management Institute and SCVO aim to challenge the status quo by creating a management development pathway that competes with other sectors to retain and attract the best talent. We all want to help equip the Scottish Third Sector with more confident, better trained managers and leaders to run more resilient organisations. We hope we can work together to be part of this important effort.

Who was the event aimed at?

Managers

Who spoke at this event?

Lynn Houmdi, Senior Manager, People & Performance, The Challenges Group

Peter Deakin, Scotland Relationship Manager, The Chartered Management Institute