The Non-Profit Leadership Program (NPLP) under the Coach-Giving portfolio of the ICF Vancouver Chapter is a leading edge, one of a kind initiative at ICF global.
Our program offers your middle to senior level leaders and individual contributors in key roles:
- 8 hours of one-on-one executive coaching by highly skilled credentialed coaches.
- The leader’s direct supervisor plays an equal role in supporting the engagement as a leadership developmental tool and to the goals of engagement.
- Coaching goals are linked to organizational and individual objectives and tied to leadership impact.
- Pre-work package is designed for leader/direct supervisor to engage in a series of activities which lays an effective foundation for the coaching engagement
- While coaching takes place in a safe and confidential space, the direct supervisor and leader meet regularly to discuss achievement of goals, thereby ensuring success for the organization.
- Post-engagement surveys are conducted to measure success.
In 2014, our launch year, the program supported 80 leaders of non-profit organizations throughout the province of BC:
- Coast Mental Health
- Community Social Services Employers’ Association (CSSEA) had 35 organizations that engaged in this program, namely:
- 211 British Columbia Services Society
- Central Okanagan Child Development Association
- Chilliwack Community Services
- Communitas Supportive Care Society
- Community Living BC
- Community Living Victoria
- Developmental Disabilities Association
- Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
- Fraserside Community Services Society
- Inclusion Powell River
- It’s my life Kamloops Society
- Kootenay Society for CL
- KSAN House Society
- Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services
- Mission Association for Community Living
- Mission Community Services Society
- North Shore Connexions Society
- North Coast Transition Society
- NORTH SHORE CRISIS SERVICES SOCIETY
- Northwest Inter-nations
- Okanagan Boys & Girls Club
- Pacific Community Resources Society
- Port Alberni Family Guidance Association
- Port Alberni Association for CL
- posAbilities Association of BC
- Prince George Elizabeth Fry Society
- Port Alberni Family Guidance Association
- Sea to Sky Community Services
- Sunshine Coast Association for Community Living
- Sources Community Resources Society
- The Children’s Foundation
- Vernon & District Association for Community Living
- White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society*
- VACFSS
- VITALS
- HR Non-Profit Roundtable had the following organizations participate:
- Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of BC
- Bateman Foundation
- BC Children’s Hospital
- David Suzuki Foundation
- Pacific Community Resources Society
- Rick Hansen Foundation and Institute
Post Leadership Coach Giving Program Survey Results
Common themes related to impact of thinking, working or relating differently as a results of the coaching program were:
- Broaden thinking, surfaced different perspectives
- Helped to think through, identify issues, strategies, set and commit to goals
- More supportive and suggestive with comments rather than directive
- More empowered, confident in approaching situations
- More strategic, self-aware
- New tools to deal with stress and difficult situations
- Role strengthened and enormously improved
- Better team player
- Improve communication with others
- More comfortable with the role of leader
- Equipped to set strategy, motivation and guidance required to meet goals with team
- Development of positive behaviors and management style that empowers staff to contribute to the overall success of the organization
- Provided whole new perspective and endless growth opportunities
- Improved working relationships
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