Boring, unproductive meetings are the number one killer of team energy and engagement. Learn Hugh's 10 Tips for Conducting Meetings to Create High-Performing Teams. As a musical conductor, Hugh leads meetings like a conductor empowers musical groups in forming a high standard for performance, in what Ballou calls "Orchestrating Success." Equip and empower your board, committees, volunteers, and staff with better meetings. Move from apathy to engagement, one step at a time.

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Here's the full workshop on Funding Sources, with the downloadable slides from the session. The 8 normal streams of revenue are the following:

1. Donations
2. Sponsorships
3. Grants
4. Planned Giving
5. Business Earned Income
6. Events
7. Partner Income from Service Clubs
8. In-Kind Support

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Learn how to properly start a new nonprofit organization...or freshen up an existing one!

If you are stuck or burned out, then find a pathway forward.

Eliminate the mistakes others have made and start up or re-start with focus and vigor! Identify the top 10 reasons nonprofits fail and learn how to prevent it.

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A webinar training event by Dr. David Gruder and Hugh Ballou, listing the top reasons for leader burnout, and providing solutions for 5 of them. 

1. External Locus of Control (circumstances or other people are the boss of your wellbeing)
2. Sacrificing Personal Wellbeing and/or Cherished Relationships for Your Cause
3. Leading From a Need to Prove Yourself
4. Over Functioning
5. Leading Through Force or Sacrifice
6. Power Phobia
7. Underdeveloped (or No) Plan Implementation System
8. Insufficient (or No) Support System
9. No Skills Development Discipline
10. Failure to Communicate

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Your best chance at attracting new prospects is about to pass you by. This Direct Response Copywriting Workshop is a marketer’s best chance at picking up the skills to advance well beyond the competition. 

Learn to “join the conversation already going on in your Ideal Prospect’s mind” so you can intrigue, resonate, and convert more eager-to-spend/donate than ever.

 You’ll discover why the message to market match is so critical for successfully crafting resonating messaging. And much, much more.

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The FIRST thing a visionary leader should do is to create a plan. Start with articulating your vision, and then create the steps to achieve that mission. Next, build your skills to lead the process, and then surround yourself with the best people to help you make things happen.

The SynerVision system is to create a Solution Map, which includes all of the versions of plans listed above. Having no plan blocks or limits your success. This training is about how to create your Solution Map, and provides a downloadable template to guide the process.

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Over half of the nonprofits founded each year will close without achieving their much needed and valuable mission. One reason is they fail to raise capital mostly because they can't share a relevant business plan.

In this session, Hugh Ballou and Burke Franklin share the "How-Tos" of creating your plan.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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Poor presentation skills is among the top of the list of challenges facing all leaders today, no matter what their role in an organization or what type of organization they lead or are a leading leader in the culture. Many leaders want to avoid making presentations whenever possible and would avoid presenting even if it might make them look bad to appear to be less of a leader.

Yet, presentation skills are at the top of another list - the list of critical skills needed by every leader. We present, to convince or to persuade, which, in many cases, is essential to our work - but we avoid developing this most basic skill to learn.

Leaders are always presenting for results - even if to only one person.

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Conflict in the workplace costs organizations many billions of dollars annually. Much of this conflict can be prevented or managed to create value from this energy that could otherwise be destructive and unproductive energy. Hugh Ballou's webinar demonstrates how Transformational Leadership skills can help leaders identify, prevent, and manage conflict.

In multiple research papers, there's a constant revelation of how conflict not only erodes the effectiveness of the work of organizations, but moreover, conflict adds costs that are unnecessary.

Spotting & Intervening With Shadow Dynamics in Groups

This program is presented by Dr. David Gruder, the 12-award-winning bestselling psychologist who co-architected the Shadow Watcher training program for the ManKind Project. A SynerVision Leadership Foundation Wayshower, Dr. Gruder is a board chair-level advisor & Chief Integrity Officer to leaders, executives, innovators, & helping professionals, who are called to help repair & elevate the world in their own unique ways. His main website is www.DrGruder.com. His next two companion books, co-authored with Mark S. A. Smith, are scheduled for release in early September, 2022: "The Nimble C-Suite" and "The Nimble Company.”

Simple ways to quickly help groups get back on track.

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