Organization: NGO Management School
Registration deadline: 27 Oct 2015
Starting date: 25 Nov 2015
Ending date: 27 Nov 2015
Overview
Managing finance to maximise organisational and programme impact
Next courses
- 25 – 27 November 2015, Geneva, Switzerland
The three-day course Leadership using financial management and communication is aimed at equipping NGO chief executive officers and directors, members of senior management teams, senior program staff, experienced people in their own field looking to move into senior management, with advanced finance skills. Whether working at a head office or with a non-profit organisation internationally, it provides the means to effectively and efficiently manage financial resources at a senior level. Senior managers, or those with the potential to be so, may have picked up skills along the way, but need a chance to learn more deeply and ask questions without ‘loosing face’.
Participants will learn how to apply financial management skills and techniques including strategic financial management techniques, ‘reality checks’ and fraud prevention, the accountant’s approach to management and their challenges, and managing finance to maximize organisational and program impact. They will also learn how financial communication skills can be used to help relationships between finance, non-finance people, boards, and other stakeholders to flourish, and as a result, to help an NGO to have more
Methodology
The workshop helps participants learn to use the financial management skills vital for senior management. The flexible, practical and interactive sessions use a balance of short inputs, discussions, group work, and individual activities.
Participants will have opportunities to share their experience and to learn from each other. It will also allow participants time to adapt the topics for their own and their partner organisations with coaching support from the course facilitator.
The course encourages participants to use the skills learned in their own work situation, and so release their own and colleague’s potential.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply a financial management leadership framework in an organisation
- Recognize financial systems that are productive or destructive
- Use financial information to give key information quickly
- Enable all stakeholders to communicate effectively about finance
- Identify mechanisms to protect an organisation against fraud
- Build strong financial management capacity
CONTENT OF THE COURSE
DAY 1 Welcome
- Financial management at a senior level in the non-profit sector
- An accountant’s approach to management
- Managing organisational systems as a leader
- Leading the budget process to get to where your organisation wants to be
- Identifying organisational weaknesses from financial information DAY2 2. Using the information and building up the people
- Basic rules of accounting and finance
- Challenges for finance departments and how to manage them
- Drawing key information from financial documents
- Approaches and tools for building financial management capacity in organisations and their partners
- Communicating effectively at board level
- Cross-cultural communication with donors and partners DAY 3*\**3. Strategic financial management and building financial capacity***
- Sustainably managing ‘reserves’ and strategies for allocating overheads
- Calculating the ‘true cost’ of activities
- ‘Reality checks’ and fraud prevention
- Financial capacity case study
- Planning for the future
Course ends
Time will be available during the course for participants time to reflect on their own organisation’s material with coaching support from the course facilitator.
Practical information
Course trainer
Mr John Cammack
Language
English
Location
NGO Management Association, Route de Chêne 41A, 1203 Geneva, Switzerland
Individual coaching sessions
This course offers the possibility to book 3 hours of individual coaching sessions with the trainer to further develop and improve a project developed during the course, or on another subject selected by the participant.
How to register:
Registration and course fees
Registration and payment deadline: 27 October 2015. Early bird fee available for payments until 3 September 2015.
Early bird fee / Full fee * :
Above fees are in Swiss francs (CHF) and include:
- Tuition
- Training materials and handouts
- Lunch and coffee breaks
- Course certificate
10% discount for returning students (within 12 months since the last course) or additional course participants from same organisation.
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To register, please fill in the online registration form, or download the form and send it to us by email. For further inquiries, please contact us.
Individual coaching sessions
This course offers the possibility to book 3 hours of individual coaching sessions with the trainer to further develop and improve a project developed during the course, or on another subject selected by the participant.
Price: CHF 480 for 3 hours of individual coaching during or after the course. Please contact us to discuss how coaching can be best adapted to your needs.