trainings

Whether you’re a new nonprofit manager, a seasoned pro, or somewhere in-between, the Management Action Center has a training for you.  Check our training options below … and if you’d like to get automatic updates as we add new dates, sign up here.

Managing to Change the World: Crash Course – If you want a fast-paced crash course in the basics of effective management, our one-day class is for you.  You’ll learn how to:

• Delegate tasks effectively
• Use goals to hand off broad responsibilities
• Check in with your staff efficiently
• Hire great people
• Give feedback and develop your staff
• Ensure your team gets great results

Managing to Change the World: Extended Version – If you want more than just the basics, plus time for intensive discussion and practice, this course is for you:

• All the topics above, plus...
• Working more effectively with your own boss by managing up
• Resolving performance problems and managing people out
• In-depth practice of difficult feedback conversations
• Effective interview techniques
• Running meetings that people won't dread
• Keeping yourself organized and using your time effectively, even when you have an overflowing plate
• And we'll discuss real-life situations participants are facing and work through how to approach them.

Extreme Makeover: Nonprofit Management Edition – You asked for it and we listened!  If you’ve taken a previous course or have read and applied the management practices in our book, Managing to Change the World, this is an advanced, 201 version of our popular Crash Course.  Take what you’ve already learned to the next level and become a manager extraordinaire!

Here's what past attendees have said about our trainings:

"I’ve been taking graduate school courses on management and I learned more in a day here than I learned in all my other courses."

“The training provided useful and applicable tools that I can actually bring back to my work and start using to improve the way I manage.”

"You should make this mandatory for all campaign managers!”

“Fun, intensive, very insightful. Thanks!”

Cost for the Crash Course and the Extreme Makeover: $295 per attendee / $225 per attendee for clients of The Management Center and The Management Action Center

Cost for the Extended Version Course: $395 per attendee / $325 per attendee for clients of The Management Center and The Management Action Center

Upcoming Trainings in Washington, D.C.

All D.C. trainings are located at 1850 M St. NW, Washington, D.C., unless otherwise noted below.

Upcoming Trainings in New York City