Our interactive, and experiential workshop series is designed to give you practical and essential skills you can use in your organization. These series' sessions will help you think and practice transferable skills to improve your opportunities for staff retention, enhanced organizational performance, more effective forms of collaboration and much more.

Each session includes two-days of unique, peer learning and participatory skill development specifically for the Manitoba non-profit sector. Attendees will walk away with essential skills that can be implemented immediately in their workplace.

Series 1:
Organizational Leadership Series:
Essential skills training for managing non-profit organizations

Leaders learn from each other in this facilitator directed experiential training workshop. Develop your coaching and mentoring skills. Explore solutions to resolving conflicts. Find the best ways to build effective teams. Listen, discuss, participate, learn –then implement

• Our approach to delivery of training is ‘Essential Skills’ driven. Participants will have plenty of opportunities to apply new learning throughout the workshops and, hopefully, back at their workplaces.
• Opportunities for skill development, such as participation in class exercises like personal and organizational storytelling, will be derived from experiences in the non-profit workplace.
• Our materials will be presented clearly and concisely. With jargon taking a backseat to plain language, we will ensure a broader base of understanding and growth among all participants from the diversity of Manitoba’s non-profit sector organizations and their employees
• Our workshops will be open to ALL paid employees of non- profit organizations.

1.    Skills for Dynamic Leadership

Working in non-profit organizations requires all employees, but especially managers, to demonstrate key leadership skills. These skills, like communication, problem-solving, decision-making and setting priorities, will form the basis of this module.

In this workshop, participants will begin to:

• Evaluate their own leadership skills
• Understand the impact of their skill levels on the people they work with
• Learn communication skills which will enhance their leadership capacity
• Learn the thinking skills which will improve their ability to manage the tasks of leadership 

 2.    Coaching and Mentoring Skills

What’s the best way to help all employees meet organizational goals?    Learning the skills involved in coaching and mentoring can make a difference to everyone involved with the organization.
This module will provide participants with opportunities to learn and practice the skills essential to effective coaching and mentoring. They will learn how to:

• Establish good relationships with employees
• Focus on day-to-day feedback to ensure employees understand job expectations
• Involve employees in discussions about their performance, including plans for change

3.    Resolving Conflicts 

Conflict in the workplace can be an energizing force; however if unresolved it can be very destructive. Workshop participants will learn the skills necessary for effective resolution of conflict in the workplace.

Specifically, participants will learn how to:

• Define conflict and recognize their own perspectives regarding conflict
• Understand the difference between constructive and destructive conflict
• Identify common responses to conflict and how to use them
• Recognize lateral violence as a workplace issue and learn skills to deal with it

4.    Building Effective Teams 

The realities facing today’s non-profit community require that organizational teams be responsive, focused and adaptable to changing conditions. In this final module, participants will be challenged to apply all the skills they learned in the previous modules to learn to work together effectively.

They will learn to:

• Communicate with members of the team
• Set and manage priorities within the team
• Assess the impact of the team and to determine how individuals might work better together

Register Now! 

Register NOW for these exciting, informative and educational workshops, seating is limited.

Payment by cheque or cash only and should be made two (2) weeks prior to the desired course date.

Cancellations should be received via email or phone two (2) weeks prior to the desired course date.
The MFNPO is making these courses available to all paid employees in the non-profit sector, and appreciates your co-operation in ensuring all seating spaces are made available.

If for any reason you may have difficulty in paying the registration fee, please do not hesitate to call us.

We appreciate your consideration of others and help us keep the workshops scent-free events.

If you have any questions, please contact Helen Burston at Phone: 204-272-6088 or

Toll Free 1-800-958-9640 or by email at regismfnpo@gmail.com