The Challenges Group

Day

Wednesday 5 February

Time slot

13:30-14:30

Room

Tinto suite
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Lynn Houmdi

Topics

Leadership Governance, strategy and legal Workforce and HR

Overall aim

In this interactive workshop, managers, leaders and trustees will explore their 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

Our sector faces ever-increasing expectations in terms of the impact we can achieve with the resources available. In order to address the social, economic and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow, the management and leadership of our sector needs to be well-skilled, resilient and reflective of our society.

Whatever challenges your organisation faces (funding, staffing, ED&I, governance, reputation, sustainability, etc), 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.

Chartered Management Institute (CMI) research has found that over 80% of managers are so-called “accidental managers" who have taken up managerial responsibilities without formal training. We know that people in our sector are deeply engaged and driven to deliver positive change; but we also know that managers are absolutely critical in nurturing and maintaining that engagement and purpose. In partnership with CMI, the Challenges Group provides cost effective, time-efficient management and leadership training by the third sector and tailored for the third sector.As a third sector organisation ourselves, The Challenges Group experiences many of the challenges that other third and voluntary sector bodies face. Built upon our relationship with the Chartered Management Institute and 18+ 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 have worked with around 300 of our 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 and Chartered Management Institute are supporting a management development pathway that competes with other sectors to attract, develop and retain brilliant 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 is the event aimed at?

Managers

Who is speaking at this event?

Lynn Houmdi - Senior Manager, Learning & Leadership, The Challenges Group
(tbc) - The Chartered Management Institute