Strengths and High-Performing Teams

Curious about boosting your team’s performance? Have a talented staff but feel their collective impact could be greater? Join us for an engaging session where we’ll explore the critical link between individual strengths and team success. Discover how understanding and leveraging your strengths can enhance both your personal effectiveness and your team’s overall performance.

We'll also share insights on how CLARB integrates Gallup’s StrengthsFinder with our staff and volunteers to drive results. Don't miss this opportunity to learn skills to unlock your team’s full potential!

Thursday, November 14

Being an Effective Board Member

Are you interested in becoming a CLARB volunteer but unsure about what the role entails? Perhaps you're hesitant about stepping into leadership or wondering if your skills are the right fit. In October’s Leadership Development webinar, you'll gain clarity on the responsibilities and impact of volunteer leaders in advancing CLARB's mission. This session will also cover the expectations for board members, with insights from experienced CLARB leaders who will share their personal journeys in leadership within the organization. Join us to discover how you can contribute meaningfully to CLARB and grow as a leader. 

Cultivate Connections by Mastering Listening Intelligence

Communication is key to any successful leader and part of good communication is good listening. Join Dori Gilbert, a Certified Practitioner in ECHO Listening Intelligence, as she shares about the four listening styles, as well as practical tips on how to overcome communication challenges with a diverse team.

The Leadership Benefits of Emotional Fluency and Vulnerability

The future of work is emotional and your success as a leader depends on knowing how and when to express that emotion. In this engaging workshop, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Molly West Duffy will share how emotions affect our professional lives and equip you with the practical advice and tools to understand and navigate emotions at work, as well as how to support the teams you lead. This workshop includes an emotional expression tendency assessment for all participants.

Living Our Values: CLARB’s Core Competencies in Action

Lead with vision. Demonstrate thought leadership. Design collaboratively. These are just a few of CLARB’s organizational values. Join our volunteer leaders to learn more about CLARB’s values, how they were developed and how we utilize them throughout the organization. Take away tips for how to re-evaluate your organizational values and align your practices around those values.

Many landscape architecture professionals volunteer for nonprofits in leadership roles, whether at a national association or local chapters, a community charity or a large foundation. An often-overlooked skill in serving mission-driven organizations is understanding the nuances of a nonprofit’s finances and business model. 

Join CLARB CEO Matt Miller as he shares the foundations of non-profit finances in this 90-minute interactive webinar. You’ll learn how to elaborate on the balance between financial sustainability and the fulfillment of your organization’s mission. Come prepared to roll up your sleeves and engage with fellow attendees for small group activities.

Tuesday, June 11

Attracting & Retaining the Next Greatest Generation

In the midst of The Great Resignation, attracting and retaining have become imperatives. In this webinar, Kristin Scroggin will let you in on some of her top tips for interviewing, onboarding, training and empowering employees to want to stay with your organization. You’ll also leave with an understanding of the five generations in our current workforce, the common norms and viewpoints of each micro-generation and what that means for you as a leader.

Monday, May 13

Strategic Planning 101

Learn the fundamentals of strategic planning in this 60-minute webinar led by CLARB’s Chief Strategy Officer,  Veronica Meadows. Discover how to set clear goals, analyze the current environment and develop actionable strategies to achieve long-term success. Gain insights into effective decision-making processes and practical tools to navigate the complexities of strategic planning in any setting.

Public Speaking Tips and Tricks

Does public speaking make you nervous? Want to improve your presentation skills? Leaders often encounter an array of public speaking opportunities. ICF Professional Certified Coach   Tamrah Barber will share tips and tricks to help make public speaking easier so that you can be a more effective, confident and engaging presenter. 

Leading with Foresight

What is the duty of foresight? How can leaders use foresight to help advance their goals and prepare for the future? Join Jeff De Cagna, executive advisor of Foresight First, for this month’s webinar to explore foresight and help you make better, future-focused decisions.

Leadership Insights from CLARB's DEI Journey

Increasing diversity, equity and inclusion is a leadership imperative. CLARB has been on an intentional journey since 2014 to learn and create opportunities across the organization to be more inclusive, equitable and accessible, and to better understand our impact on increasing diversity within landscape architecture. Join us to hear insights from our leadership—what steps we took, what opportunities and challenges we faced and what results are we seeing.

Thinking and Acting Beyond Orthodoxy

Jeff De Cagna, executive advisor of Foresight First, Foresight First, will explain what orthodox beliefs are and why they are important for individuals and organizations to be aware of and address. Come away from this presentation with ways you can begin to question your own orthodoxies and how that can help you in your decision making, work environment and more.

Using Your Strengths

Join us for an interactive session to explore your strengths. Learn more about how focusing on strengths can benefit you and the teams you work with. We'll also share how CLARB uses strengths with our staff and volunteers. 

Being a Good Ambassador

Learn more about the role that board and committee members play, as well as how you can effectively serve in those leadership positions to help advance the mission of any organization.

October 19, 2023