Management Training Resources

General Resources:

• Trainings:

• The Management Center (Managing to Change the World, Managing for Racial Equity, Inclusion, & Results)

• The Shriver Center on Poverty Law, Supervising for Quality & Impact

• CompassPoint (Supervision: Relationships and Structures that Help Us Thrive; Liberatory Principles & Practices for White Supervisors; Supervision for BIPOC Leaders)

• Websites:

• Canopy/Claire Lew (on-demand leadership, team supervision, and management webinars and articles)

• Jamboard from the series

• Equity Considerations for Supervisors” Anti-Bias Worksheet

Supervision Fundamentals:

• The Three Dimensions of Effective Supervision (The Management Center)

• Conspire and Align: A New Approach to Management (The Management Center)

• JustLead 2020 Equitable Practices for Supervisors Curriculum (available by request)

• Delegation Checklist (Shriver Center & JustLead Washington)

Relational Leadership:

• The Four Elements of Strong Relationships: The Manager’s Guide to Relationship-Building (The Management Center. Note – this is a helpful resource for establishing expectations and starting to talk about power and privilege as well)

• “User Manual” Sample Template for Onboarding 

Power, Privilege, & Identity:

• Kirwan Institute Implicit Bias Video Modules (especially Module 4, Mitigating Unwanted Biases)

• Why Microaggressions are like Mosquito Bites (2 minute video)

• Microaggressions: What to Know and How to Navigate Them (JustLead Washington/REJI On-Demand Webinar)

• Microaggressions: On Demand Webinars (Cultures Connecting)

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)

Culture:

• White Supremacy Culture

• The “And” section provides additional articles/resources reflecting on antidotes to culture challenges.

• If you click through the links on each characteristic there are alternatives/antidotes suggested there as well.

• Creating Culture:

• Creating a Culture of Community Care

• Fearless Culture (Culture Design template, lots of articles)

• Growth Feedback: 

• How to Give Feedback With a Growth Mindset Approach

• What Having a Growth Mindset Actually Means

• Power Sharing:

• How Shared Leadership Changes Our Relationships at Work

• Three Nonprofits Share Their Approaches to Co-Leadership

• Five Ways that Nonprofits Can Make Decision-Making More Inclusive – And Effective

• The RAPID Decision-Making Tools for Nonprofits

• Shared Knowledge Production: 

• How to Create a Knowledge-Sharing Culture

• Why Lived Experience Matters

• Mutual Accountability

• Hold Your Team Accountable with Compassion, Not Fear

• Transparency

• How Transparent Should You Be With Your Team?

Conflict:

• Default Conflict Management Styles

• Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook

• In it Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation in Movement-Building Groups

Delivering & Receiving Feedback:

• Grappling with Feedback: Lessons in Trying, Failing, and Trying Again (CompassPoint)

• Turning Toward Each Other Conflict Workbook (see page 40)

• The Management Center:

• How to Receive Feedback Part 1, Part 2 on Power, Difference, and Inequity, and Case Study

• 5 Tips for Giving Better Feedback

• How to Give Feedback About Defensiveness

• 2x2 Template for Mutual Feedback

• Give More (and Better) Feedback with CSAW

• Building a Feedback-Rich Culture (HBR)

• Using Neuroscience to Make Feedback Work & Feel Better (pwc)

• 10 Tips on Receiving Critical Feedback: A Guide for Activists

• 360 Degree Reviews:

• What Makes a 360 Degree Review Successful

• 360s: A Comprehensive Guide

Other:

• How to Manage Several Generations at a Nonprofit (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

• Generational Differences in Racial Equity Work (Nonprofit Quarterly)

• Examining Unwritten HR Practices to Center Equity & Inclusion (Management Information Exchange)

• Antiracist Recruitment & Hiring Practices (Management Information Exchange)