"It is not my responsibility to carry their feelings."
There is a difference between supporting your team and absorbing what belongs to them. Finding that line is a challenge in any management position, and understanding it does not make it easier to hold.
This professional development intentionality carried into Nonprofit Leaders Forum, supporting Schaumburg Township-funded agencies. (www.goodworksresults.com/nonprofitforum)
Two partner consultations brought live challenges to the center. One partner is a year into a peer-to-manager transition, still working out what it means to hold authority while staying relational. A second consultation centered on a team conflict that HR has been inside for weeks without resolution.
The Harbour (https://theharbour.org), this session's Agency Profile, shared their emergency and transitional housing programs for female youth. Partners left with new referral pathways and a stronger foundation for the cross-agency connections this cohort is building.
Thank you to WINGS Program (https://wingsprogram.com) for hosting. The intentional spaces, the artwork on every wall, the sense that every detail was purposeful: it is a space that reflects who WINGS Program is.
This forum, in partnership with Good Works Results LLC (https://www.goodworksresults.com), reinforces the vital role of peer support in building stronger nonprofit leadership.
Proud to collaborate with these #mentalhealth, #substanceabuse, #IDD-serving organizations: Northwest Special Recreation Association (NWSRA) (https://nwsra.org), Life Span (https://life-span.org), Ray Graham Association (https://raygraham.org), The Bridge Youth & Family Services (https://bridgeyouth.org), WINGS Program (https://wingsprogram.com), The Harbour (https://theharbour.org), NWCASA (https://nwcasa.org), Brightpoint (https://brightpoint.org), Journeys the Road Home (https://journeystheroadhome.org), Kenneth Young Center (https://kennethyoung.org), Clearbrook (https://clearbrook.org). Thank you to the Township of Schaumburg Mental Health Board (https://schaumburgtownship.org/our-township/mental-health-board/) for supporting this initiative.