Effective Management: A Directors' Retreat


Our highly-regarded Effective Management in Out-of-School Time: A Directors' Retreat training includes the option of different tracks: one for executive directors of multi-site agencies, and the other designed for directors and coordinators of single site programs. The Directors' Retreat supports out-of-school time program directors by developing leadership and advocacy skills and establishing a peer network.

Goals of Training:

  • To create a climate that celebrates diversity, fosters learning, and models teambuilding.
  • To give participants a window into guiding program improvement.
  • To expose participants to contemporary leadership and change theories.

Targeted Audience:

  • Directors ready to increase their management skills.
  • Directors who are new or from programs experiencing staff turnover or parent dissatisfaction.
  • Directors seeking to make changes.

Training Content:

  • Two days of training.
  • The training can be customized for two tracks of participants: one designed for directors and coordinators of single site programs, and the other designed specifically for executive directors of multi-site agencies.
  • Trainers assist directors to begin to set goals for staff development, marketing, family responsiveness, and other quality improvements.
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All of our trainings, except for our annual Summer Seminar, are conducted in a location of your choice. Clients arrange a local training event with NIOST that typically draws 20-40 participants. Two NIOST Training Associates plan and deliver the training, while a local sponsor, such as a Resource and Referral Agency, State Government Agency, City Agency, or State or Local Provider Association, coordinates the publicity and logistics. This model allows for maximum local participation. If a client has a small number of potential participants, it may make fiscal sense to send the group to the annual Summer Seminars series in Boston.

Opportunities for individual participants to attend NIOST trainings include our annual Summer Seminar series held in July in Boston. NIOST has been hosting its annual Seminars since 1999. The goal of our Summer Seminars is to provide training for after-school professionals from all over the country which can be attended as individuals. In addition, this series of events allows participants to connect with other professionals outside of their community, and thus create a potential national network among the field.