Creative Problem Solving and Co-Intelligence Workshop:
How a Leading Nonprofit Coach Can Help Your Organization Produce Powerful Results
And Help Solve Your Nonprofit’s Most Challenging Issues

What Does Your Nonprofit Struggle With?

• A board of directors that can’t work together or is not very engaged?
• Conflicts within the staff or between board and staff?
  
•  Knowing whether to fire a personable staffer who is not getting the job done?
•  Finding an alternative business model (with diverse sources of revenue) so you won’t be so reliant on foundation grants?
•  Learning how to set program goals that are inspiring yet achievable?

Kela Associates doesn’t pretend we have all the answers. We don’t. But we know that the nonprofit leaders and teams we work with do. Sometimes, though, they don’t have all the tools they need to get to those answers. That’s why we help them with practical creative problem solving tools, processes for building co-intelligence on their boards, and strengthening their organizational capacity.

How We Help You Address Your Most Pressing Concerns

WHAT: A half day hands-on learning workshop for nonprofit leaders, board members, and staff, plus two hours of follow-up coaching to help your organization apply the powerful new tools of creative problem solving and co-intelligence to address your organization’s most challenging issues and problems.

HOW: Participants will learn and apply practical tools and techniques for creative problem solving and promoting co-intelligent decision-making in nonprofit settings

After an introduction to these tools, small breakout groups (teams) will practice applying these tools and techniques to real world problems that have confronted nonprofits, then report their creative solutions to the entire workshop.

• Participant discussion will reinforce and transmit to all workshop participants the uses and value of these creative problem solving tools and techniques for mobilizing co-intelligence to help make wiser decisions with more buy-in.
• Each participant will get informative handouts, a practical template for action planning, and a resource list providing additional tools and information for strengthening your business’ problem solving capacity.
• Two hours of coaching will be available after the workshop to help you apply these new tools and techniques to some of your nonprofit’s  toughest problems.

 What is “Co-Intelligence”? It is the ability of any group – a board, a leadership team, a foundation, a family — to find a wiser answer together than any single member could alone. It is that, but it is so much more. At this workshop you’ll learn new insights and tools of co-intelligent decision-making that will enable your nonprofit to address its greatest challenges, seize its greatest opportunities, and do so more effectively than ever.

EXAMPLES: At this workshop, you’ll learn creative problem solving techniques to build stronger teams; improve your organization’s programmatic and financial performance; deal with your more challenging personnel problems, and develop new product or service offerings and new sources of revenue. To help you get to this higher level of performance, you will learn:

• Why there are always multiple possible solutions to every serious problem and how to get beyond polar alternatives to find the solution(s) that will work best;
• How your nonprofit can use a world-class system offering 40 different approaches to problem solving to achieve breakthrough results when your teams get stuck;
• How to achieve superlative results by accessing the wisdom of Olympic champions, Nobel scientists, civil rights leaders, and leaders in other fields;
•  Why sometimes it’s better to have two problems than one and how to use this information to solve two tough organizational, financial or programmatic problems;
• How you can institute very small changes to make very big differences in the programmatic and financial performance of your nonprofit.

TESTIMONIALS:

• “Jeff’s approach to problem-framing and problem-solving quickly stimulates clarity and insight and drives toward effective solutions. After two conversations with Jeff I had a fresh approach to my concerns which enabled me to work with the other leaders in [our organization] and shift our circumstances into a much more positive position within a few months. . . . Jeff is equal parts Han Solo and Yoda: he has technology for problem-solving that will get you somewhere, but you also find out that the force was within you already.” – Board Chair, DC area nonprofit

• “Your presentation, case studies, small group discussion processes, feedback and facilitation were so concise, clear, well-organized, and distilled that I learned as much, if not more, in one day in your Governance and Board Development workshop than I did in almost two years working with [a leading nonprofit organizational effectiveness consulting group].” - Executive Director, statewide human service nonprofit.

• I consider Jeff and Kela Associates to be among the strongest assets [our organization] now ‘takes to market’ building our capacity for growth and change.” – Statewide nonprofit human services organization Executive Director

• “I hope I speak for all of us when I say that you have ‘saved’ us from what was nothing less than a slow ‘death spiral.’ I think we have made enormous progress in a number of ways, thanks to your efforts in helping us to see what all of us ‘knew in our hearts’ but which no one was brave enough to openly address. I believe we are now able to speak openly, among other issues, about structural deficits, co-intelligence and the need for ‘respect’ for others’ points of views, that disagreement doesn’t need to be unpleasant. I think many of us feel better ‘armed’ to deal with these issues.” – Hawaii Nonprofit Board Member following completion of a three-meeting strategic planning process.

• “Many thanks for your help; truly this ongoing exploration of co-intelligence is one of the most electrifying conversations of my recent life. It is exciting to see this take root within our organization.” – Director, State agency for rehabilitation and employment of people with disabilities

If you are interested in exploring a “Creative Problem Solving and Co-Intelligence” workshop for your nonprofit, foundation, or organization, please contact me. I look forward to the opportunity to explore your needs and our ability to be of service.

All the best,
Jeff Schwartz
President, Kela Associates
Kela Associates – 310 Piliwale Rd. – Kula, HI 96790
(808 878-1314 (phone/fax) – 240-505-2120 (cell)
jeff@kelaassociates.com

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