Practical Leadership Skills for Museums, Galleries & Cultural Organizations with Mikhael Bornstein
Wednesday, October 7th, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm | Ingenium Digital Innovation Lab | Attend the Workshop | Attend the Full Conference
LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP OUTLINE
Discover, examine and learn the key aspects of the four most important practical skills that can help take your leadership (or the leadership skills of anyone on your team) to the next level. The research is clear: leaders who have mastered these skills have staff who are more engaged, produce better results, and experience less burnout.
Leading in a museum, gallery, historic site, or cultural organization brings unique challenges. You lead small teams that wear many hats. You collaborate across curatorial, visitor services, marketing, and development functions. You manage staff and volunteers side by side, all while serving your community and protecting the public trust your institution has earned. This full-day interactive workshop gives you four essential leadership skills built for exactly that environment:
- 1. Building Trust in Your Institution
- 2. Having Difficult Conversations
- 3. Coaching and Mentoring Your Team
- 4. Building Effective Teams Across Departments
Over the course of the day, you will learn each skill, with time for hands-on exercises so you can practice each skill before you take it back to your office. You will leave the workshop with practical tools you can use in your institution the very next week. This session is aimed at experienced leaders who want to add practical tools to their leadership toolbox. But leaders and managers at all levels, including those leading teams for the first time, will find valuable content in this workshop.
Includes a Free Leadership Workshop Handbook. In addition to the day-long workshop, you will receive copies of all the slides and a 30-page resource book with more tips, templates, exercises, and tools.
Module Descriptions
Building Trust in Your Institution
Trust is the foundation of all good leadership. And in the museum and cultural sector, it extends beyond your team to your volunteers, your board, your partners, and your community. But what is trust, and how can we build it? In this module, you will learn a four-factor framework that you can use to better understand trust, diagnose trust issues, and build trust across your institution, from the front desk to the boardroom.
Having Difficult Conversations
As a leader, you must have difficult conversations. Whether you are addressing underperformance, navigating tension between marketing and curatorial priorities, or managing a long-serving volunteer whose behaviour has become a problem, you must have hard discussions about hard topics. In this module, you will learn a practical framework that will empower you to have difficult conversations that de-escalate tensions and achieve productive outcomes, while preserving the close working relationships that small institutions depend on.
Coaching and Mentoring Your Team
Museums, galleries, and cultural organizations rarely have the budgets for extensive professional development, which makes coaching and mentoring your most powerful (and most affordable) tools for growing talent. But coaching and mentoring can often seem daunting and esoteric. In this module, you will learn the four practices that drive effective coaching and mentoring, so you can develop the next generation of cultural sector leaders right inside your institution.
Building Effective Teams Across Departments
In a world of lean staffing, hybrid work, and volunteers working alongside professionals, building effective teams is one of the greatest challenges cultural sector leaders face. Marketing, curatorial, education, visitor services, and development must pull together, often with limited resources. In this module, you will learn the five principles of effective team building and how to apply them across the departments, functions, and mixed staff-volunteer teams that make your institution run.
Your Workshop Leader: Mikhael Bornstein
Having worked in the arts, culture, health, social service, and education sectors, Mikhael Bornstein has more than twenty-five years of experience as a nonprofit leader and professional fundraiser. Mikhael is an AFP Master Trainer and a frequent speaker at conferences across North America. He teaches at George Brown College, Fleming College Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University. Mikhael has a Master of Arts in Leadership Studies from Royal Roads University. An experienced leader and manager, he has deep roots in the arts and cultural sector and understands the unique leadership challenges of mission-driven institutions. As a leadership and management trainer, he helps nonprofit organizations develop confident managers and high-performing teams. An AFP Master Trainer with 25+ years in the nonprofit sector, he has delivered workshops, webinars, and keynotes to organizations including the David Suzuki Foundation, Sustainability Network, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Feed Ontario, and CPA Ontario. He holds an MA in Leadership from Royal Roads University.
- 25 years in the nonprofit sector as a leader, fundraiser, and educator
- 30+ workshop topics across leadership, management, team performance, and fundraising
- Repeatedly invited back by clients including the David Suzuki Foundation, Sustainability Network, and Toronto Region Conservation Authority
- To learn more about Mikhael and his work, please visit his website at www.thephilanthropicleader.com
“Mikhael’s sessions routinely sell out and he consistently receives stellar reviews. I look forward to continuing to work with Mikhael in the future.”- Paul Bubelis, Executive Director, Sustainability Network
“Mikhael delivered sessions that were well-tailored to the needs of our people leaders. We’re definitely looking forward to more opportunities to collaborate with Mikhael in the future.” – Anabelle Voisard, People, Culture & Equity Generalist, East, David Suzuki Foundation
Fees: $495.00 per delegate for the Workshop. | $795.00 per delegate to include the full day CMMC registration.
Taking place in the Ingenium Digital Innovations Lab, this year’s workshop takes advantage of a distinctly unique, modern, and versatile floorplan. With accessibility at the forefront, the open-concept space provides modular furniture for a variety of set-ups, whiteboard tables to foster collaboration, and access to digital AV technology. The Digital Innovation Lab is ideal for panel presentations, lectures, meetings, product launches, and collaborative events such as webinars and hands-on workshops.
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