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ICL Programs & Workshops
July – December 2013
Visit our website to register, learn more, get tips,
and be inspired! www.icl.org
Look inside for Information on: 2013-2014 Leading from Within Program Distance Learning Opportunities Visit www.icl.org to register and learn more. Contact Us 6930 Carroll Avenue Suite 1050 Takoma Park, MD 20912 T: 301-270-2900 info@icl.org
Dear Leader:
Leadership is not an individual effort. Our individual
strengths add up to the effectiveness of the organiza-
tions and collaborative efforts that we lead. We can
bring our best to the team when, as individual lead-
ers, we have ample support from our teammates
and a wider network of relationships.
In ICL’s work to help leaders build a better world,
we embrace this “both/and”—the need to strengthen individual
leadership and to strengthen collective impact.
Our programs and services provide opportunities for leadership
development in the context of organizations and collaboration:
❍ Leading from Within helps leaders at all levels discover
their unique capacities, and provides specific tools and
approaches to strengthen your confidence in leading any
group,
❍ Leading Networks and Coalitions, a Distance Learning
Plus! program, provides frameworks and skills for leaders and
teams navigating the unique dynamics of collaboration,
❍ ICL’s custom designed coaching and easily accessible
60-minute webinars support innovative thinking and strategy
development based on emerging trends.
Summer and fall are the perfect time to invest in your group’s
effectiveness. ICL’s high impact programs and services are a
perfect fit for making an investment in your leadership—for now,
and for your future. Take a look at our offerings, and let’s work
together to protect the Earth!
Dianne J. Russell
Executive Director
Signature Intensive Programs
Leading from Within
Discover and enhance your unique capacity to lead in this 5-
month ICL intensive program of workshops, coaching, and peer
learning. Develop a leadership style
that takes advantage of your unique
personal traits. Be ready to tackle any
situation through greater awareness of
your individual strengths and confi-
dence to impact others. Develop life-
long leadership skills to create pro-
ductive teams, address conflicts, and
build the trusting relationships we all
need to succeed.
Through this intensive program you will:
❍ Recognize your leadership strengths and how to use them
❍ Have a greater impact as a leader in one-on-one, group, and
organizational settings
❍ Choose your actions strategically from a place of centered-
ness, rather than reactivity
❍ Develop a toolbox of skills for effective leadership in a variety
of situations, and
❍ Address current leadership challenges that you are facing
Important Dates:
August 16, 2013 – Applications Due
October 2013 – March 2014 – 2 residential workshops, and
coaching sessions
Location: Rock Point Center on Lake Champlain, Vermont
Visit www.icl.org for more information.
2 www.icl.orgSignature Intensive Programs.
Executive Director
Leadership Program
Strong Leaders = Effective Organizations
Become a highly effective Executive Director through this 9-month
ICL intensive program of workshops, coaching and peer learning.
Increase your skills to move your
organization forward with practical
"I was able to better
tools and guidance. Expand your peer
conceptualize how my
network and get the perspective you coalition works at multiple
need by joining ICL’s popular Executive levels, and use tools to
Director Leadership Program. address problems and
promote solutions and
Through this 9-month intensive successful practices at the
program you will gain the tools, skills appropriate level."
—Derek Brockbank,
and support to:
Campaign Director,
❍ Increase your leadership Mississippi River Delta
confidence and capacity Restoration Campaign
❍ Create the path to outstanding
results
❍ Focus the board and staff on what’s truly important
❍ Adapt to a changing and complex landscape
❍ Manage a financially sustainable nonprofit organization
❍ Bring out the best in your staff and volunteers
❍ Be energized for the long haul
This program is open to Executive Directors, both new and
seasoned (presidents, CEOs, or Associate Directors)
Important Dates:
Spring – Fall 2014 – Dates and Location TBD
www.icl.org 3Distance Learning Opportunities
Webinar-based, skill-tailored classes that address specific topics,
and ramp up your capacity for leadership. For details on fees, times,
new classes, and additional information on specific classes, visit
2013 Event Description
AUGUST Wait! Before Hiring someone to lead your
22 You Hire fundraising efforts is a big step
Development and should be considered
Staff… carefully in the context of
60 minute your whole organization.
webinar Join ICL’s Director of Program
Services, Peter Lane for
an eye-opening discussion
of what every organization needs
to consider before hiring
development staff.
SEPTEMBER Key to Take your organization to the
17 Membership next level with tools and tips for
Success moving long-time members to
90 minute major donors. Share your own
webinar experiences and get your
questions answered by
membership expert Amy
O’Connor.
4 www.icl.orgDistance Learning Opportunities
www.icl.org/programs/distance-learning
2013 Event Description
OCTOBER - Leading Grow your leadership skills and
NOVEMBER Coalitions and confidence in and outside your
Networks network through ICL’s 7-week
series! Join this program and
work with ICL consultant and
leadership coach, Meredith
Emmett.
DECEMBER Developing a Boost your board’s productivity
Governance and governance by developing a
Plan for Your written plan outlining what the
Board board and its committees will
60 minute accomplish in the next 6-12
webinar months. Get started with this
plan using ICL’s helpful planning
templates and guidance.
Webinar led by ICL’s president,
Dianne Russell.
www.icl.org 5Distance Learning – Plus!
Leading Coalitions & Networks
Leading a coalition or network of groups is different from leading a
single organization. Even the most experienced leaders are
challenged to adapt their skills and practices to meet the unique
dynamics of collaborations.
”I gained an understanding
Grow your leadership skills and
of my leadership style and
confidence in and outside your net- different ways of approach-
work through ICL’s 7-week series! ing others. I now know that
sometimes to lead, I need
Through this program you will: to step back and not do the
work for others.”
❍ Enhance your effectiveness with
Nicole Barbato,
new skills, self-awareness, and
Conservation Ontario
perspectives on your role as a
collaborative leader
❍ Identify the leadership practices that build healthy networks
and coalitions
❍ Apply leadership tools to manage tensions, conflicts, and
distractions
❍ Work with a coach to set goals and find solutions that work
with your individual leadership style
❍ Connect with a community of peers leading coalitions.
Course includes 6 webinars, 1 peer-led discussion, and
individualized coaching.
Important Dates:
September 9, 2013 – Registration deadline
September 25 – November 6, 2013 – weekly programs and coaching
Participants may register individually or as a leadership team
6 www.icl.orgCustom Designed Services
–Grow your organization
–Build your capacity for effective change
Your organization is unique, your needs as individual as your
membership and mission. Why not rely on our proven experience
to custom-design a solution to meet
the challenges you face? “We attribute a number of
organizational changes to
We offer need-specific help tailored our strategic planning and
leadership development
to:
work with ICL. Because of
❍ Organization-wide growth and our work together there’s
transformation, including more energy and people
fundraising and campaign have greater confidence
and skill in their role as
planning
leaders. Learning to think
❍ Board training tailored to your strategically all the time
specific needs, using proven was an important goal that
we’re now able to apply to
tools and innovative approaches our work daily. I always look
❍ Skill building for staff, board, and forward to the opportunity
to work with ICL.”
volunteers
—Bob Megquier, Openlands
❍ Coaching through transition
times as well as for leadership and executive development
❍ Facilitating effective collaborations between partner
organizations
❍ Developing and facilitating staff and board retreats.
✳ Call or email Peter Lane, 301.270.2903 or peter@icl.org
for expert, confidential advice to see
what ICL can do for your organization today.
www.icl.org 7Great Resources for Green Leaders
Our website has loads of important tools for your organization.
Click on “Resources” at www.icl.org for these publications
and more:
3The Less Visible Leader: Emerging Leadership
Models for Environmental Networks, Coalitions,
and Collaboratives
4Reality Check: How Grassroots
Environmental Organizations Are
(or Are Not) Raising Money Online
3Creating an Environment for Success:
Mergers and Other Partnership Structures
for Environmental Nonprofits
4 Working Together:
A Toolkit for Cooperative Efforts,
Networks and Coalitions
Plus—check our timely and informative online articles:
❍ Enhancing Board Capacity for Fundraising
❍ Four Steps to Successful Executive Director
Annual Evaluations
❍ Online Resources for Finding Volunteers
❍ Leadership Development
❍ What You Should Know about
Restructuring Visit us at
—and more! www.icl.org
for more resources!
8 www.icl.orgHere's what our partner organizations
say about ICL programs
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives
to Pesticides
“ICL makes leaders more effective. That translates into
more change for the environment.”
— Kim Leval, Executive Director Leadership Program participant
Eugene, OR
Ecojustice Canada
"For me, Leading from Within was transformational,
a clear directional change, both in my personal life
and my professional life. And, the best part is
that Leading from Within continues to reinvigorate
the transformation by offering an alumni program
that illuminates and inspires me all over again...
and again!"
— Dr. Anastasia Lintner, Leading from Within Program Participant
Toronto, ON
Wyoming Outdoor Council
"ICL is a great resource for conservation leaders. The
program helped me become a stronger leader; it
gave me the framework I needed to be an effective
chief executive."
— Laurie Milford, Executive Director Leadership
Program participant
Laramie, WY
www.icl.orgNon-Profit Org.
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Washington DC
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6930 Carroll Avenue
Suite 1050
Takoma Park, MD
20912
Look inside for:
Details about Leading from Within Program—
Apply by August 16th.
Distance Learning—Plus! (with coaching)
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