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Overall skills
Leadership
Group dynamics
Your temperament: DISC
Contracts and agreements
Legislation
Presentations
How to give a presentation
Negotiation strategies
Mentoring
Mentoring and coaching strategies
Navigating political environments
Basic business meetings
Encouraging innovative ideas
How do you create fresh thinking?
2. Governance
Board membership (See also BoardSource website)
Blackstump College Draft Board policies
Governance lessons
Board member discussion questions
How do boards work?
Evaluate your organization
3. Business planning
Review: A full review of your organization
Business plan (Being revised)
About risk
Specific risks
About strategy
Project planning
Models of operational plans
Change: How to create it
Establishing New Organizations LOTS OF LINKS
Starting a new business from scratch
Organizational mentoring
Systems
4. Marketing
Market surveys
Constituency-based marketing
5. Program quality and evaluation
About quality assurance systems
Standard for Organizational Quality (SOQ)
Quality in education: Conceptions
Interpersonal models of program evaluation
The cost of low quality
ISO 9001
6. Human resources
Human capital: A development strategy
Performance management
Professional Development (PD)
7. Finances
Managing finances
Company valuations
How to set share prices
Finding funding Grants for non-profits
Tax deductibility for churches
Staff
On reducing staff costs
8. Workplace Health and Safety
WHS introduction
How to establish an WHS system
WHS investigations
Risk management
9. Project management
Project
Further project management
Teaching event and project manangement
10. Administration, policy and procedure
Writing policy
Policy and procedure structures
Developing a new standard: A case study
Information management
Writing procedures
System cycles
Inclusiveness (needs re-writing)
Writing reports
11. Extras
Mergers, and how to do them
Government problems
Appendix: Templates
Template: PowerPoint Marketing plan presentation
PowerPoint Business plan presentation
PowerPoint financial performance report
Excel financial template