Advanced Practitioner Track

Who is eligible for the Advanced Practitioner Track?

The 2002 ICVA is offering a unique opportunity for professionals with eight or more years of experience in the field. This Track, formerly the Experienced Leader’s Track, enables participants to work with highly recognized consultants in the private sector who bring a wealth of knowledge and tools that will help experienced Volunteer Administrators reinvigorate themselves, their efforts and their organizations. The Track includes five 90-minute, highly interactive workshops that form a unique whole, so experienced practitioners are encouraged to register for the entire Track.

Four Cornerstones

Four cornerstones form the foundation for the Conference – opportunity, balance, community and reflection. Symbols that indicate which of these cornerstones is the basis for a particular workshop. Some workshops have more than one cornerstone.

 

 Balance is the focus in workshops on high touch vs. high tech, work life vs.
personal life, board vs. staff vs. volunteer roles, and budget vs. needed resources.

 Community is about engaging others in ways that create interdependence between
executive staff, volunteers, funders, corporate sponsors and stakeholders.

 Opportunity exists for you to learn, grow, connect with others and have fun.

 

 Reflection is time for focusing on the state of the profession, what is working and can
work better for you, the volunteers and your entire organization.

 

Each workshop is also coded by level:

B – Basic
I – Intermediate
A – Advanced

 

Additionally, each workshop has a code designation that is used for registration and CEU purposes (i.e. APT1).

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APTI

Thurs., Oct 10
10:00 am –
11:30 am

Getting The Question Right
Peter Block, international trainer, author and consultant will lead an introspective and experiential session that raises questions of purpose, commitment, accountability,  community and caring for the "whole." Gain clarity on these questions and a greater understanding of what now has meaning for you, your organization and the world. Explore the power of refusal as a prelude to genuine commitment.

APT2

Thurs., Oct 10
1:30 pm –
3:00 pm

Designing For Engagement
Dick and Emily Axelrod are consultants, trainers and founders of The Axelrod Group and Dick is the author of Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Our  Organizations. Meetings, which can range in size from two to 2,000 participants, represent an opportunity to create an engaged organization. Design your next meeting using proven models and design principles that work regardless of the level of staff or volunteers involved. Apply new tools for engagement in this very "hands-on" session.

APT3

Fri., Oct. 11
10:00 am –
11:30 am

Attracting The Perfect Career
Jan Brogniez and Stacey Hall are co-founders of Perfect Customer Unlimited and co-authors of Attracting the Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity. Learn how to create a "Strategic Attraction Plan" for attracting your perfect career. Create immediate shifts in your personal and professional lives as you create a path to a career that is perfectly aligned with your personal mission and values.

APT4

Fri., Oct. 11
2:00 pm –
3:30 pm

Communities And Individuals Helping Themselves
Linda Brown Rivelis, President of Campaign Consultation, Inc., a consulting firm that works in the areas of community development, fundraising, diversity utilization, issue advocacy, media and marketing, public policy and organizational success.
Emily Gilliland Daniels, Project Specialist, Campaign Consultation, Inc. Ms. Daniels has extensive experience in building and managing national service and volunteer initiatives at the local, state and national levels. 

Practitioners will identify key elements of successful volunteer programs, understand the importance of long-term stakeholder commitments to program sustainability, describe how volunteer development activities contribute to program sustainability and growth, identify critical factors for successful entrepreneurship and assess their organization’s capacity to engage in social entrepreneurship.

APT5

Sat., Oct. 12
10:00 am –
11:30 am

Track Wrap: Take APT Back!
Sarah Jane Renborg, Ph.D, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, and Jill Janov, Jill Janov Associates, a firm that consults internationally, will co-facilitate an experiential session on making meaning of and taking action on what has been learned throughout the Advanced Practitioner Track. Learn how to assess the effectiveness of organizational change efforts and deal with resistance.