Overview
An Executive Roundtable is a small group of CEOs who meet together every four months to help one another solve problems and improve their institutions.
Informal discussions with other executives helps clarify issues and convert concern into practical action. An experienced facilitator chairs the session to produce the maximum benefit for each participant. The chairperson keeps the agenda on target and fast paced. The chair has extensive experience in management consulting with nonprofits, exceptional interpersonal skills, and acts as a proactive contributor to each session.
Who should attend? This program may be for you, if:
- You are the person at the top where the buck stops.
- You are dramatically improving your organization, or wish to.
- You are open to learning how to better manage and lead your organization.
Benefits: Roundtable members form a supportive team of peers for:
- Clarifying issues.
- Sounding new ideas and opportunities.
- Developing new ways to solve institutional problems.
- Encouragement and support when times are tough.
- Converting thoughts into action and providing peer accountability.
- Building a solid support network with other directors committed to excellence.
Features:
- Three Roundtables per year, each one and one-half days long.
- Practical and proven educational materials at each session.
- Close and lasting relationships with other Roundtable members.
- Unlimited phone consultation with Qm² staff.
- Executive Insight diagnostic materials.
- Self assessment tools and materials to help you better understand yourself.
- Management Briefings-concise, practical handouts on critical management topics.
Agenda
CEO Issues: Roundtable members become a supportive yet tough peer group who help one another analyze and explore current issues and hot topics. The goal is to help you gain perspective, additional options, and support in addressing your issues. Typical issues might include:
- How to involve staff and board in strategic planning.
- Handling a problem staff member.
- Conflicts between staff, director and board.
- Attracting new visitor, customer, or client segments.
- Responding to a fiscal crisis.
Leadership and management development: Brief presentations including practical, take-home concepts and tools are a part of each session. The content is based on the needs of the members and covers all the essential elements to help you redesign and lead your organization successfully. Typical topics include:
- Understanding your management style and how to balance weak areas.
- Building a strong top management team.
- Improving coordination and productivity in the exhibit design process.
- Restructuring and defining jobs.
- Running much better meetings.
- Success Sharing: Members report on successes in managing and improving their organizations.
Typical topics include:
- New ways to gain audience and client input.
- Techniques for working with communities.
- Designing management measurement systems.
- Assessing visitor and client needs.
- Successful marketing campaigns.
- New initiatives in community involvement.
- Building legislative support.
Reinventing the Organization: The changes swirling around us today demand more than a wait and see attitude. Nonprotits for the third millennium will be different from those of the last thirty years. This part of the agenda explores what tomorrow's nonprofits will look like if they respond to the changes already underway in the world. Most directors have solved the easy problems they face. Further improvement will depend upon:
- Insight into underlying causes and closely-held operating assumptions.
- Knowing what to change and in what sequence.
- Focusing on the right problems.
Roundtable Structure: Design based on extensive experience.
- Three meetings per year, held in your greater metropolitan area.
- Each meeting is a day and one half long; an overnight stay is expected.
- Every member is expected to attend all sessions. The schedule is set to meet the participants' calendars. If you miss frequently, you will be asked to withdraw.
Roundtable Participants: Participants are selected based on their leadership position, their commitment to institutional change, and their willingness to fully participate. A typical Roundtable has:
- Fourteen chief executive officers.
- A professional facilitator who acts as chairperson.
- Administrative support.
- No competitors or close collaborators.
- The right chemistry.
Ground Rules: The following ground rules are the foundation of the process of dialogue. They invariably deepen trust between participants which fosters learning at the most significant emotional and cognizant levels.
- Open and honest interaction.
- Mutual respect.
- Absolute confidentiality
Cost: There is an annual membership fee, plus a pro rated share of the meeting expenses (meals, meeting room, AV, etc.). Members are responsible for their own transportation and sleeping room. Quarterly payments can be arranged.
Executive Roundtable