Conflict Resolution
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
This manual on conflict resolution focuses on conflict analysis, looking at actors, power and behavior, and mediation, highlighting mediator characteristics and process.
Exercises for T4T (Training for Trainers)
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
This resource provides a series of group exercises, including a self-assessing tool to map NGO development, determining who carries responsibility in the NGO, team roles and a self-assessing tool to understand the difference between teams and groups.
Innovative Leadership – Facilitator’s Guide
Language(s): English, Arabic, French
Published: 2013
This facilitator's guide for a training-of-trainers workshop on innovative leadership provides specifics for a two-day event, including sections on types of listening, how conversations shape actions, barriers to designing the future, creating possibility, and more. Also included are appendices on key concepts and questions, flipcharts and quotes for inspiration.
Developing an Effective Board
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation focuses on creating and managing effective boards. It reviews different board types, board member responsibilities, how boards can help with fundraising and tips for managing and organizing boards.
Seminar Curriculum (Module 2)
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document offers an overview of how to become a social entrepreneur, including techniques for starting a project, brainstorming and individual assets audits. It also describes tools such as social networking to ensure far reach. Self-reflection exercises are included, focusing on the process leading to social impact. It is to be used with the presentation prepared for the second module.
Innovative Leadership Workbook
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2013
This manual, developed by Barbara Fittipaldi and the Center for New Futures, provides a two-day course agenda with key questions, issues and skills related to innovative leadership and self-generated listening. It provides questions and several exercises, such as vision design and barriers to designing the future, and highlights creating relatedness, possibility, opportunity and action.
Strategic Planning for NGOs
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
This introductory handout on strategic planning for NGOs describes the process with a "strategic planning spiral" and gives three questions to ask when creating strategic plans.
2.1: Leadership Compass
Language(s): English
Published: 2014
This resource for trainers focuses on the idea of a leadership compass, helping participants to identify styles of leadership and the importance of having diversity of leadership in a group. Included is a topic overview, learning objectives and specific lesson procedures. The ideal ages of participants are between 19-29. An overview of the program also is available: http://maktabatmepi.org/content/11-approaches-learning-presentation.
Module 1: Basic Facilitation Training
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This resource provides an outline for a five-week online training session that aimed to enable fellows to learn active listening and how to ask good questions, and to help them recognize their own biases and uncover other people’s biases. It includes learning components and a weekly breakdown of discussion points, activities and assignments. It is one of four modules in the series.
Coalitions Building and Networking
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013