The Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy is committed to meeting the learning and development needs of federal employees and their partnering organizations.
Academy staff offer customized training and curriculum development for both virtual and onsite learning, as well as workshops, conferences, webinars, self-paced online training, and train-the-trainer programs. Our services also include Meeting Facilitation and Individualized Coaching.
Custom Training
Training topics include:
- Accountability
- Assessing and Fostering Trust
- Building a Politically Savvy Network
- Collaborative Leadership
- Collaborative Process Design
- Communication Skills
- Conflict Management
- Entrepreneurship and Risk Assessment
- Facilitation
- Governance Models for Multi-party Collaboratives
- Leveraging Partnerships
- Negotiation
Leverage our expertise and instructional resources to meet your organization’s needs in the classroom, online, or in group meetings.
The Academy supports federal agencies and partner organizations in the development of competency-based training to help build knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) associated with key leadership, partnership, and community collaboration competencies.
Materials from our existing courses can be adapted into shorter format courses, based on your needs.
Academy staff are also available as guest instructors and subject matter experts.
- Managing a Mix of Federal and Non-Federal Funds
- Nonprofit Fundraising Perspectives
- Partner Cultural Awareness
- Partnership Assessment
- Partnership Management
- Persuasion
- Strategic Thinking
- Strategic Planning
- Teambuilding
- Virtual and Hybrid Facilitation and Collaboration
- Working with Foundations and Corporations
Facilitation
The Academy’s staff and lead instructors are available to facilitate virtual and onsite meetings, teambuilding and strategic retreats, and gatherings across the nation. We will work with you to design agendas, develop presentations and collateral materials, recommend speakers, and troubleshoot logistical and technical challenges.
Individual Coaching
The Academy’s individual, private coaching is a unique type of collaboration focused 100% on the client’s professional development goals. Coaching offers a way to personalize and customize the development of partnership practitioners while meeting each person where they are in their own unique journey. Clients benefit from the dedicated format and confidentiality of the coaching relationship and typically achieve results more rapidly in terms of addressing growth opportunities and personal and professional goals.
Coaching is a relationship between equals. Clients will have the opportunity to practice and sharpen their collaborative leadership skills during sessions while advancing their most important priorities and goals. Clients will leave sessions feeling empowered, refueled, and clear about next steps.
50-minute virtual coaching sessions are conducted over Teams or Zoom using video or audio. The frequency of coaching sessions has a direct impact on the scope and pace of results. A minimum of two (2) sessions per month and a maximum of three (3) sessions per month fosters ample continuity and accountability while also offering a realistic time commitment. The optimal duration of the coaching relationship always varies. Four to six months (~12 sessions) is typically the minimum amount of time to achieve a strong relational foundation and gain traction in attaining professional development goals.
- 2 – 3 hours per month in private, virtual coaching sessions
- 5 – 10 minutes to prepare and submit client agenda form in advance of each session
- Clients will determine how much time they want to dedicate to optional “homework” opportunities between sessions.
Contact us to schedule a complimentary 30-minute consultation to see if coaching is right for you.
Through Individual Coaching, Leigh Goldberg supports her clients to amplify their impact and achieve their goals with greater ease, clarity, and balance. Her coaching style is holistic, fun, and results oriented. Learn more about Leigh Goldberg.
