PROGRAM SUMMARY

For over 5 years, Joyfields Institute has led the field in capacity building on Evidence-based Practices. This June professionals and practitioners will gather in Atlanta to learn winning ways for “Building Enterprise Excellence”.  Our program theme is “Strategies and Tactics, Ethical Conduct and Corporate Sustainability” and we invite you to be a part of it.  With a laser focus on what works, this comprehensive program provides the skills, tools and resources you need for creating organizations and programs that thrive in today's economy.

Success requires the utmost in leadership, strategic planning, evaluation and funding sustainability.  Challenging economic times and declining resources call for wise decisions about how available resources will be utilized.  

This year we offer you the opportunity to choose between a 3-Day, or a 5-Day program.  Whichever you choose, you will have made the right choice too!

The 3-Day program runs from Monday June 11th to Wednesday June 13th and all participants get to be a part of it.  This is a comprehensive program on Leadership in Strategic Planning, Accountability and Funding Sustainability in which the systematic planning and evaluation process is presented to highlight the core roles and functions of leadership and management within any organization.  It also addresses the essence of proactive collaboration, data analysis and use for promoting your operations while also driving internal processes and quality.

The 5-Day program runs through the entire week from June 11—15 and incorporates all of the 3-Day curriculum.  In addition, the final 2 days is chuck full of off-site learning and activities.  On Thursday June 14th, we go off-site to Chateau Élan, the premier winery and leisure destination.  During the outing we will begin our discussion around the topic of “Ethical Leadership: Opportunities For The New Millennium”, and also engage in activities built around the topic and perhaps make time to do some shopping!

We will wrap up on Friday June 15th in style with more discussion around the subject of Ethics again off-site at another destination yet to be announced!  We wrap up the entire program in the early afternoon of that day.

There is no doubt in my mind that the program, “Building Enterprise Excellence” will position you to confidently move forward with turning your agency into it can indeed become.

I thank you for the opportunity to serve you in this capacity and look forward to seeing you in the Atlanta, Georgia’s own Peach City.

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Program Details

June 11 - 13, 2012

Leadership In Strategic Planning, Accountability And Sustainability

Customers, policy-makers, funding agencies and the general public are demanding accountability.  Unfortunately many in leadership struggle to engage in effective planning to provide meaningful information about the work they do.  In this program, participants will acquire time tested principles and skills for creating ultimately great organizations.  

This comprehensive training will cover the components of effective strategic planning.  In the process we will;

• Examine scientific techniques for assessing problems and developing evidenced-based solutions

• Present performance measurement as a key element of the evidence-based programming and accountability movements

• Examine the use of process and impact evaluations as methods of ensuring programs are being implemented as planned, and

• Review that the anticipated effects are being achieved.
  

If you are ready to lift your agency or program to the next level, then this is a program you cannot afford to miss!

We hope you and your team will make plans to join us in Atlanta!

WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN

This training will address the common problems of poor planning, faulty problem analysis, and weak performance assessment that tend to produce under-performing agencies and programs that fail to live up to their original promise and expectations.

The systematic planning and evaluation process presented will emphasize proactive collaboration; documenting problems and needs through data collection, its use for analysis and evaluation while promoting your operations and the agency.  The program covers significant ground.  Topics covered include;

• Basic principles and keys to successful strategic planning
• Techniques and components of effective strategic planning
• Problem analysis and needs assessment
• Identifying agency strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and critical issues
• Developing or clarifying an agency’s vision, mission,  values, goals, and objectives
• Selecting or designing programs
• To define target populations, program components, and procedures to be followed
• Setting program goals and measureable objectives
• About the different types of impact evaluation and research designs
• Developing a logic model for programs
• Developing and utilizing performance measures to assess key results
• Methods and data collection techniques for program monitoring
• Developing and utilizing action plans
• Monitoring implementation through process evaluation
• Assessing program effects through impact evaluation, and
• To identify, acquire, and allocate required resources
• To plan for and manage challenges and success
• To manage resistance and conflict
• Using performance assessment to improve operations, manage resistance to change, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• To enhance program sustainability and meet funding requirements

• Leadership and Change
• Thinking About Leadership and Change
• What makes effective leaders.
• Important Leadership Qualities
• Effective Leadership and Organizational Growth

• Developing a planning structure
• Establishing the Planning Committee
• How to collect and examine background information
• Articulating and developing vision & mission statements
• Conducting an Environmental Scan and Gap Analysis
• Specifying Goals and Objectives
• Components of a Logic Model

• Understanding and solving problems
• Common agency issues
• Reviewing available data and formats
• Improving data collection for problem analysis and needs assessment

• Process Evaluations
• Impact Evaluations

• Building internal and external support
• General Capacity vs Innovation-specific capacity
• Using Planning and Evaluation Results for Capacity Building and Sustainability

• Funding and Strategic Funding and Financial Planning
• Effective Grant Writing

• June 14th
• Chateau Élan Resort, Vineyard & Winery, Braselton, Georgia - AM
• http://www.chateauelan.com/
  
• Discovery Mill - PM

• June 15th
• Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia - AM
• http://www.callawaygardens.com/
  
• Atlantic Station/Lennox - PM

Conversation, Reflection and Site Specific Discussions for System Transformation

This part of the program is designed to present participants with opportunities beyond the in-classroom lecture setting.

During this 2-day period, participants engage in informed conversations to explore and address site specific questions that do not lend themselves very well to structured classroom lecture conditions.  Attendees get the chance to enjoy thoughtful conversation with peers from various parts about common challenges they face.  They will be in a position to explore opportunities in a less structured setting aimed at helping participants gain insights that can aid their organization's transformation.

Professionally moderated learning sessions conducted at exciting off-site locations to help executives put what they have learned in motion addressing their very own unique challenges and goals.  

Participants are encouraged to consider the role of "Ethical Leadership" in their dealings and on the business landscape.

Ethical Leadership: Leveraging Opportunities For The New Millennium

Enterprises today are subject to great pressures—internal and external that include regulatory changes, ethical questions and the challenges related to globalization.  Often leadership and management values and beliefs create ethical dilemmas and ultimately shaky skewed corporate cultures at best.  For these reasons organizations end up making well intended decisions that lead them down destructive path.  If an organization is regarded as corrupt and unethical it looses credibility, faces increased scrutiny and its legal troubles mount. 

Besides, managers and agencies who conduct themselves ethically are respected and held in high regard by peers, subordinate groups as well as competitors.  This image in community makes it easier to conduct business and achieve desired outcomes while building confidence and transparency in who you are, your products and services.  Customers and shareholders will feel secure in doing business with you if your agency is known to be run on ethical principles. 

Some say ethical leadership is needed.  We say ethical leadership is essential and is a key to your success as an organization in the new millennium

What participants Will Learn

This program encourages participants to think of ethical leadership as an untapped competitive advantage and shows you how you can build value customers will “see”, “touch” and pay for.

The program will also teach how smart organizations leverage ethical practices to differentiate themselves from competitors and the large majority of agencies headed down the path of unethical and corrupt practices.

Participants will learn steps for making ethical decisions, instill confidence and loyalty in staff and seize upon ethical business practices as a competitive advantage.

They will learn how to establish and drive a culture of ethical conduct to motivate and instill confidence in staff and stakeholders in and outside the organization.

• You will network with colleagues to share invaluable ideas and experiences from different parts

• You will meet and network with the finest leaders serious about the business and learn how they do what they do

• You will leave at the end of the program with an implementable action plan to begin to address the challenges you face

• You will learn from an expert faculty what works and know what mistakes to avoid

• We don't stop at just the class room studies.  You will learn in discussion groups and trouble shooting sessions how to address the re-entry opportunities ahead

• Learn key skills for great systems leadership

• Learn first hand the best and latest resources for addressing needs expressed and how to apply them

CERTIFICATE COURSE

Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate as evidence of your accomplishment and status as a practitioner who has acquired specific new skills. Your certificate will be delivered upon completion of the course.

INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS

Joyfields offers special assistance to ease travel to the USA from abroad. Our package includes assistance securing accommodation, visas, and transportation. Send email to international@joyfields.org or call +1(678)720-2772 to let us know how we can assist you in anyway. Make sure to provide details. Tell us in your email exactly how we can assist. Include a telephone number and email address in all correspondence so we can contact you if necessary.

REGISTRATION FEES * (4th attendee is FREE.  Register 3 at the same time, and the 4th person attends FREE!)

Includes all training sessions, training materials, site visits where applicable, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshment breaks. Complimentary 6 month membership in JI (includes newsletter and discounts to Joyfields' sponsored programs).

Participants are responsible for all other expenses including charges for accommodations, airfare, dinners and all personal expenses.

• 3-Day Program Only: $1295
  (Mon - Wed. Includes Workshops, Implementation Action Planning) 

• Comprehensive 5-Day Program: $2495 ea
  (Mon - Fri. Includes Workshops, Implementation Action Planning, Change Management, Ethics, Site visits)
  

*4th Participant Attends FREE!  Register 3 at the same time, and the 4th person attends FREE

* Early registration discount.  Register by April 14, 2012, get $100 OFF each!  Discount is applied during checkout.  To Register Your slot Online, click here, or download and complete registration form and fax to +1(678)605-0271.

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