Management Essentials
Accelerate your management knowledge, skills and insight. This series is perfect for new and developing managers and management teams eager to enhance their impact and people management skills.
Earn a Certificate of Completion in Management Essentials!
Spring 2025 Series: May 8, 15, 22 & 29
9 am – 12 pm PST
Experience level: Beginner – Intermediate.
Managing people can be rewarding and quite challenging. Join expert facilitators and peers for this informative, supportive, and engaging professional growth experience.
Register today and earn a Certificate of Completion.
Management Essentials is an in-person, two-day comprehensive program designed to equip first-time to seasoned people managers with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel in their roles.
The program begins by exploring management fundamentals, differentiating between leadership and management, and highlighting the essential qualities of effective managers. It delves into building high-performing teams, emphasizing collaboration, conflict resolution, and project management. Effective communication is a key focus, with strategies for clear communication and active listening.
CVNL is pleased to offer partial scholarships to Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and under-represented individuals who are nonprofit staff or volunteers serving in Marin, Napa, Sonoma, and Solano Counties.
These scholarships are made available by generous grants from the Peter A., and Vernice H. Gasser Foundation, the Community Foundation of Sonoma County, the Solano Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, and U.S. Bank.
For more information on scholarships, please contact us at learning@cvnl.org, or complete the scholarship form.
Program Details
- Experience level: Beginner - Intermediate.
- Two full-day in-person sessions at CVNL classroom located at 1 McInnis Pkwy, Suite 175, San Rafael, CA 94903.
- Tuition: CVNL Member $1,125 for CVNL members; $1,350 for non-members.
- Apply by March 28, for the Early Bird discount - 20% off tuition!
- Tuition discounts: 10% discount for groups of 3 or more from same organization, and organizations with budget size under $750K.
- Tuition includes: All materials, including handouts and additional web resources.
- Limited to 16 people.
- Registration deadline: May 8.
- BIPOC scholarship available for eligible BIPOC participants who are CVNL members serving Marin, Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties.
- CVNL Certificate of Completion awarded to participants who complete course requirements.
Schedule
Whether you are entering a management role for the first time or have been managing people for years, this session will provide a helpful framework. Learn about the unique role of the manager and gain knowledge about management principles, management and leadership styles, and how emotional intelligence supports performance.
Build your dream-team. Master performance management with goal-setting and effective feedback techniques, and enhance your decision-making and problem-solving abilities with advanced models and risk analysis strategies. Streamline your workflow with expert time management and conquer the challenges of leading organizational change.
Effectively apply different communication styles and their impact on team dynamics, and provide strategies for active listening and clear communication.
- Apply appropriate techniques for setting performance expectations and goals, and discuss effective feedback strategies and conducting performance evaluations.
- Decision making, problem solving, time management and prioritization, leading change and managing resistance, discipline and corrective action processes.
Cancellation policy: If plans change and you are no longer able to attend, we will transfer your enrollment and payment to the next program cycle. Funds must be applied and used within a 6 (six) month period. We do not offer refunds.
OUR FACULTY
Sponsored in part by:
Tom Hayashi
CVNL Chief Capacity Building Officer
Tom comes to CVNL with over 20 years of fundraising, senior management, and consulting experience which represents direct engagements with over 100 organizations on an array of capacity-building projects and programming.
He proudly identifies as a cis-gendered gay Asian Pacific Islander, first-generation immigrant, former foster youth, and first in his family to graduate from college. He finds his passion for social and ecological justice in his personal background, cultural identity, mindful practices, and relationships with the community.
Immediately prior to joining CVNL, Tom served as the Chair and Program Director of the Department of Leadership and Management (DLM) consisting of graduate-level degree programs at Saybrook University, and Associate Professor of Human Resources of Bovard College at the University of Southern California (USC).
Tom’s professional highlights include leading public policy and advocacy efforts in Washington DC during the Obama administration and serving as the Executive Director for OCA-APA Advocates a national civil rights organization representing the Asian Pacific Islander communities. He is often sought as a diversity, inclusion, and equity speaker, trainer, and consultant specializing in diversity readiness assessments, equity-oriented leadership development, and cultural humility programming. Learn more.
Bear Whitfield
CVNL Human Resources Manager
Bear brings over 15 years of professional experience in operations and human resources management. His scope of practice includes Recruiting; Performance Management; Culture & DEI; Training & Development; and HR Business Strategy. He has earned his BS in Health Education, MS Ed in Education, and professional certifications in Professional in Human Resources from the Human Resource Certification Institute, Certified associate in project management from the Project Management Institute, and Certificate of Completion in Organizational Learning and Development from the Human Resource Standards Institute.
If you have any questions about Learning & Leadership Development or other CVNL training opportunities, contact:
learning@cvnl.org