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NOW IN ITS SIXTH YEAR,

NGLC is a transformative leadership development program that builds leadership confidence, management competencies, and the ability to unleash organizational change. This year, we are excited to from a cohort of 20 people of color from Los Angeles health and human service organizations.

CompassPoint has designed this program specifically for leaders of color committed to working with their community peers to drive social change.

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Next Generation Leaders of Color  focuses on two of the critical content areas that pose significant challenges for many community-based managers and leaders. The first challenge is tosupervise, develop, inspire, and influence people. The second challenge is to develop business acumen with an emphasis onfinancial strategy, comprehension, and literacy.

Using a multicultural framework that examines cultural dimensions in managing people and organizational finances, this program focuses on these two areas, deepening the management and leadership capabilities of individual participants, while increasing the overall health and sustainability of their current and future organizations of employment.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

A cohort of 20 people of color from Los Angeles health and human service organizations will enroll in an intensive program with the following components:

360-Degree Assessment Tool

The assessment will take place at the onset of the program. It will provide participants an insight into the way others perceive their performance based on their workplace behaviors. Participants will be matched with coaches who will debrief the assessment results with them and develop their individualized professional development plans based on the results.

In‐person Seminars

Participants will come together five times over the course of the program for highly interactive learning sessions. The seminar topics will incorporate a multicultural framework that examines cultural dynamics and will alternate between leadership content and management content as participants work on their organizationally focused challenge. Expect 5-7 hours of homework in-between sessions. 

Facilitated Peer‐Learning Groups

Each cohort member will participate in a facilitated peer‐coaching group. Peer groups will meet over the phone for 2 hours between the in-person seminars and are designed to reinforce learning and provide real‐time problem solving and peer support towards the participant’s organizationally focused challenge.

Leadership/Executive Coaching

One-on-one leadership coaching will be made available to each participant to help them with their leadership and professional development goals regarding their self-identified adaptive organizational challenge. Coaching is optional and coaches will be matched with participants based on interest and need.

Final Cohort Gathering

To encourage and support a network of next generation leaders of color, the last in-person seminar will be a celebration of accomplishments and an opportunity to deepen the new relationships among the cohort. Alumni from other CompassPoint leadership cohorts based in Los Angeles will also be invited.

IMPACT and RESULTS

NGLC graduates report a higher degree of confidence, financial literacy, multicultural awareness, and strengthened supervisory and leadership skills. 

• 100% of participants from the last two cohorts agreed that being part of a cohort that was all people of color had a positive impact on their learning experience.
• The majority of participants also report experiencing a sizable shift in their confidence to lead themselves, others, organizations and communities.
• Most participants also described coaching as a transformative experience that boosted their self-awareness andempowered them to define and refine their own leadership practices.

For the 2010 Key Evaluation Findings Report prepared by jdcPartnerships, click here.