OneJustice: CompassPoint is the Backbone for Our Professional Development
Finding Support
For Julia, it’s not just about the connections she gets to make to her own skills and content, but also to other participants. “I feel like a CompassPoint alumnus. I ran into someone I met six years ago at Thriving as an ED and it felt like a college reunion. You get a sense of shared experience with others. You’re not just one person sitting at a table taking notes.”
For Julia, it’s not just about the connections she gets to make to her own skills and content, but also to other participants. “I feel like a CompassPoint alumnus. I ran into someone I met six years ago at Thriving as an ED and it felt like a college reunion. You get a sense of shared experience with others. You’re not just one person sitting at a table taking notes.”
“There’s something about CompassPoint that’s about the whole person. They pay attention to the professional side and also where people are coming from personally.”
Transforming Herself and Others
“CompassPoint is the backbone for our professional development of staff,” Julia states. “When we do professional development plans every year the first place we look is the CompassPoint catalog.” And there are certain classes that every single staff person attends. For instance, all OneJustice supervisors attend CompassPoint’s Supervision: Helping People Succeed course.
Julia feels strongly about the importance of having a place like CompassPoint to support staff. Their staff members “understand that both OneJustice and CompassPoint take them seriously. They know that there is a training institute that cares about what they do. It says that the nonprofit sector is a serious sector and we are intense about the education of our staff. Our staff members come back with new content and the sense of being part of something bigger than just OneJustice.”
Julia sees the fact that CompassPoint itself is a nonprofit organization as a key factor. “There’s this whole conversation about what it’s like to be a nonprofit that we don’t need to have with you because you get it. So we can get down to the learning so much faster.” She adds, “What makes CompassPoint so special is that it provides best practices and learning coupled with the support it takes to make change and practically apply what you are learning. One without the other wouldn’t work.”