Professional Development Organizations who invest in staff reap the rewards:  lower turnover, higher production, better attitudes, and much, much more.  Pathways works with organizations to build on their existing culture to create integrated performance management, training and development, and rewards systems.  Pathways has trained over 5,000 people in many types of settings including educational, nonprofits and corporate. Types of trainings to help hone your management, communication, and organizational capacity: • Training the trainer • Communication • Supervision strategies and styles • Coaching your staff to success
Support and Development for Managers ♦  Are you struggling with your demanding work load? ♦  Do you wish you had an outlet to share your frustrations? ♦  Has being a manager been harder than you imagined? ♦  Do you crave connection and camaraderie with other people in your position?   Being a nonprofit manager or executive is a unique and challenging experience.  Often leaders are over-worked and under-resourced.   Pathways will partner with your organization to build the capacity of managers and executives so that your staff, programs and organizations can thrive.	Featuring The Managers Institute Training and support for managers to develop the communication, organization, and other skills necessary to thrive as a supervisor, mentor, coach, and trainer. More about The Managers Institute
A Sampling of Programs We Offer Making your work fit in your life, not the other way around! In this workshop we will explore our personal motivators and get back in touch with ways to recharge, relax, and reconnect to the work and life you want.  Participants will leave with strategies and tools that are specific to the demands of nonprofit managers and the unique professional and personal demands we juggle.   Understand how individuals construct their own reality and how to connect better in the workplace “What do you mean you didn’t do                           (insert your own answer here)?!”  Every manager has that employee you just don’t understand. What is he/she thinking?  What motivates him/her?  In this workshop you will learn to understand what motivates your team members, what influences their decisions, shapes their attitudes, and ultimately determines job satisfaction.  Participants will use basic personality assessment tools that can be used with your team to help create deeper respect and understanding.   Effectively Communicating Performance Expectations We all have expectations as managers about how our staff should behave and do their work.  Often as managers, it is challenging to communicate those expectations in a way that will actually result in change.  Find out how to get those ideas from your head to your staff in a way that is healthy and effective, and focus on people not performance reviews. Non-profit Triage A candid discussion with fellow non-profit professionals on ways to stay sane, stay focused and manage workplace stressors. We invite entry-level workers and experienced nonprofit managers to come share what has worked for them to stay balanced, effective, and inspired while facing the daily challenges of working in the nonprofit sector.   Managers Group A weekly or monthly interactive session for managers.  Solutions and answers for everyday management questions and challenges.  Meet other nonprofit managers, build community, share your struggles, learn about different styles of management, and other topics determined by the group participants.