ELEVATE
Build your Leadership Capacity. Elevate Yourself and Others.
ELEVATE – The Coach Approach
Thursdays,
January 11-March 28
Supporting Leadership Development and Coaching Capacity to Improve Individual and Team Performance and Increase Success in Supervision
Facilitators: Ellen Kagen Waghelstein and Mariana Antoniuk
Elevate your leadership and transform the way you supervise individuals and teams. Join your colleagues for an innovative, immersive and collaborative experience focused on adaptive leadership techniques, supervisory and communication skills, and hands-on learning. Learn from thought leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit world. Network and learn with a diverse cohort of supervisors who work in Jewish organizations in Greater Baltimore. Through a blended learning approach (eLearning, virtual learning and in-person), you will elevate your leadership capacity and increase your leadership and Jewish leadership literacy.
There will be a $100 minimal fee to the organizations, per person.
Maximum 30 participants.
Application Deadline: November 10, 2023
Goals:
To strengthen leadership and supervisory capabilities through the coach approach
To learn to see supervision as a set of adaptive challenges
To develop a network of peer supervisors
To learn and internalize skills through discussion, practice and application
For Professionals Who:
1. Supervise at least one staff member or who manage a team
2. Work in a Jewish organization, synagogue, school in greater Baltimore
3. Have the desire to manage up down and all around as part of a team
4. Know you can lead from any seat, as leadership is an activity, not a position
You Will Gain:
Opening full-day IN PERSON retreat – Session 1:
- ELEVATE Overview
- Creating the Cohort
- Identifying Challenges and Outcomes
- Laying the Foundation for the Coach Approach
- What is an adaptive challenge, lay the foundation for peer consultations
- Work on skills around psychological safety, reverse view and building empathy
The Coach Approach to Adaptive Leadership (the “how” of leadership and supervision) delivered through VIRTUAL sessions 2, 3, 4, 5:
Coaching is a powerful tool for improving leadership, supervision and practice in Jewish Communal Organizations and Agencies. This series introduces leaders, administrators, supervisors, managers and program staff to:
- The leadership coaching mindset and skillset.
- Skill-based practice so that participants experience leadership coaching.
- Skill-based practice so that participants have the experience of being coached on real issues to enhance leadership and workforce effectiveness.
- Focus on good management skills,
- On the adaptive leadership skills of aligning actions to values, and reset,
- And will build the critical thinking skills needed to support change and innovation in your respective agencies.
Topics covered will include:
- How do I become and stay present even in the midst of chaos and conflict?
- What does engaged listening look like and, how can I become an engaged listener?
- How can I ask powerful questions that unlock deeper responses to our leadership challenges?
- How can I use direct communication and feedback to support adaptive work?
- How can I create and support personal and collaborative accountability within the teams that I serve?
- How can we/I use leadership coaching skills in our daily interactions to create ongoing opportunities for internal and cross system collaboration?
- How can the Coach Approach increase my effectiveness as a coach/leader in leading change?
Half-day Leadership Training Retreat, session 6 IN PERSON |Strategic Use of Self in Difficult Situations:
Leaders need specific strategics, tools and frameworks to address challenging situations. Bringing real challenges to explore, you will increase your communication skills by learning:
- Radical Candor and the importance of psychological safety.
- Speech Acts and getting to yes to build common ground.
- Making requests that bring commitments and agreements.
- Courageous Conversations to manage conflict.
Full day Leadership Training Retreat, Session 7 IN PERSON |Putting it all Together: Adaptive Design in a Holding Environment:
- Using Coach Approach Skills, the participants will be able to address an adaptive challenge. A focus will be on how to create a holding environment where difficult issues can be discussed.
- The day will conclude with a Siyyum, learning celebration, inviting colleagues to join in.
PLUS – 5 small peer group meetings for case consultations (the first one 12-2 and virtual)
Dates:
January 11th – OPENING session IN PERSON, full- day retreat 8:30 – 4:00
January 18th – Coach approach, VIRTUAL 9:00-12:30
January 25th – Coach approach, VIRTUAL 9:00-12:30
February 8 – Coach Approach, VIRTUAL 9:00-12:30
February 22 – Coach Approach, VIRTUAL 9:00-12:30
March 7 – Retreat IN PERSON 8:30 – 12:30
March 28 – Retreat IN PERSON 8:30 – 4:30 with Siyyum 3:30 – 4:30 (invite execs and team members)
Peer Groups:
Feb 1st – Peer Group Orientation and meet up I, VIRTUAL 12:00-2:00, with Marianna.
February 15 – Peer Group meetup II, IN PERSON 12:00-1:00
February 29 – Peer Group meetup III, IN PERSON 12:00-1:00
March 14 – Peer Group meetup IV, IN PERSON 12:00-1:00
March 21 – (make up day for Peer groups) IN PERSON 12:00-1:00
Past ELEVATE Supervisory Cohort
2021-2022
Eli Bass, Pearlstone Hazon
LaNelle Beale, The Associated
Jeffrey Blavatt, The Associated
Erica Bloom, Jewish Volunteer Connection
Ali Duhan, The Associated
Claire Fultz, Jewish Community Services
Aviva Janus, Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation
Caroline Kamande, The Associated
Lynne Kness, Jewish Community Center
Suzette Kossoff, Jewish Community Center
Tatyana Madreymova, The Associated
Louise Nagel, Beth Shalom Congregation
Terri Rosen, Center for Jewish Education
Rachel Ruben, CHAI
Robin Rose Samuels, Jewish Community Center
Larry Schugam, CHAI
Melissa Seltzer, Jewish Community Center
Joshua Snyder, Goucher Hillel
Diana Solomon, 4Front (JCC)
Emily Stern, Jewish Community Center
Jennifer Taylor, Jewish Community Services
Valerie Thaler, Beth Israel
