Building Bench Strengths

Two Part Workshop

April 2nd, 2015 – 9:00 am – Noon

April 16th, 2015 – 9:00 am – Noon

Class Description
Strong succession strategies are based in effective leadership teams. At the core of this culture is the ability to synthesize diverse strengths into effective team action. This strength-based approach is critical to creating an environment that develops strong leaders who execute a shared, perpetual vision. In this six hour interactive, instructional and discussion based workshop participants will:

• Build awareness about the stages of team development
• Learn to map a strategy to build an effective team
• Build self-awareness about individual strengths
• Learn how personal and group processes benefit from differing individual talents
• Learn dynamics of different communication preferences
• Build capacity to develop leadership skills in others and offer resources for additional leadership training

Prior to the workshop, each participant must complete the following assessments:

• Online Strength Finder assessment (by Tom Rath)
• Online Myers Briggs assessment

Assessment links will be emailed after registration is completed.

About the Presenter:

Jane Klieve
President, Klieve Group,LLC
Jane has more than 25 years of leadership development and human resource management experience. Her company, Klieve Group, LLC, specializes in leadership development, group facilitation, Board governance, and transition management.  Clients include nonprofit, corporate and religious organizations in the bi-state region and beyond.  She has served as a key consultant with Nonprofit Services Center for the last ten years.
Jane brings a 360◦ perspective to her work as a nonprofit governance consultant.  She has served on the boards of many organizations and state commissions and has served as president or an officer many times.  In addition, she has served as the executive director of a nonprofit.  This first person experience is complimented by professional training.  Jane has completed programs in Advanced Board Consulting, Assessment of Governing Boards and in the Governance as Leadership model through BoardSource.
In addition to her consulting practice, Jane is an Adjunct Professor in the Nonprofit Management & Leadership Program at University of Missouri St. Louis.  She teaches one of the core courses in the program:  Staff Management Issues in Nonprofits.
Jane has a B.A. in Psychology from Northwestern University and an M.A. in Human Resource Management/Business Administration from the University of Iowa.