AQORD Leadership Institute
Dates
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Location
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Cost
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Overview
AQORD Leadership Institute offers a unique, in-depth experiential learning opportunity for current and emerging senior leaders to deepen their understanding of leading in organizations that embrace faith-based values.
Participants meet in person as a group three separate times, for several days at a time. In between sessions, the group will continue to connect and process what they are learning. Staff from AQORD member organizations and select partners are invited to participate. We suggest that each organization select one participant per year; more than one applicant per organization will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Program Design
This intensive, cohort-style experience is designed to promote leadership practices that will resonate in organizations that embrace the values of presence, connection, and listening—and where leaders actively and intentionally live these values to shape and nourish the culture of their organizations.
In short, the experience is designed to give leaders ways of thinking and practicing—frameworks and tools—congruent with our values.
We do our work together in the Institute in the spirit of continuous revelation. This supports the assumption that we are always learning, we can hold our opinions lightly, and we can change our minds.
Outcomes
- Reflection: Increase self-awareness by using reflection to continually evolve a leadership stance, and by identifying strengths to leverage and learning edges to explore and develop.
- Foundations of Trust and Relationship Building: Hone skills of listening and asking questions in ways that build trust, enhance coaching and building the capacity of others, and contribute to a respectful, generative environment.
- Building Community and Engaging Stakeholders: Experience and utilize tools for participatory meeting design, group facilitation, and shared decision-making, and understand how to use them to create the conditions for collaboration.
- Reflection: Increase self-awareness by using reflection to continually evolve a leadership stance, and by identifying strengths to leverage and learning edges to explore and develop.
- Foundations of Trust and Relationship Building: Hone skills of listening and asking questions in ways that build trust, enhance coaching and building the capacity of others, and contribute to a respectful, generative environment.
- Building Community and Engaging Stakeholders: Experience and utilize tools for participatory meeting design, group facilitation, and shared decision-making, and understand how to use them to create the conditions for collaboration.
Values in Action
Speakers and materials will focus on various models and system frameworks that reflect values in action. Examples include:
- Peer coaching
- Quaker model of decision-making
- Appreciative inquiry
- Creating collaborative meetings
For more information, email us.
Speakers and materials will focus on various models and system frameworks that reflect values in action. Examples include:
- Peer coaching
- Quaker model of decision-making
- Appreciative inquiry
- Creating collaborative meetings
For more information, email us.
About Our Leadership Development Programs
AQORD’s leadership programs nurture the growth of leaders at every stage—creating space to learn, reflect, and lead with purpose, compassion, and courage in service to others.
Executive Circle
A trusted circle of senior leaders who come together for honest conversation, shared learning, and encouragement in the sacred work of leadership.
Leadership Institute
A transformative journey for emerging and mid-level leaders—combining practical learning, personal reflection, and community to strengthen values-centered leadership.
Internship Program
An opportunity for students and emerging professionals to explore vocation and gain meaningful experience within mission-driven member organizations.