Are you a not-for-profit Executive Director or CEO looking
to move your board and organization closer to achieving the mission?

Coaching for Mission Alignment, a collaboration between Vantage Point and the International Coach Federation (ICF), Vancouver Chapter, will provide approximately 10 hours of coaching to the Executive Director/CEO to address specific challenges or opportunities in aligning people within your organization to effective mission delivery.

What are the benefits of coaching?

Executive Coaching is viewed as an increasingly credible leadership development activity for those entrusted with running not-for-profit organizations and a tool for improving organizational results”.¹  Recent studies on not-for-profit leadership indicate coaching can more fully engage not-for-profit leadership teams in achieving their goals.²

Coaching is a collaborative relationship that fosters self-awareness and builds on individual strengths to achieve meaningful and measurable outcomes that are aligned with the organization’s goals. Coaches support their clients through focused conversations to change their thinking and behaviour to improve their performance. To be successful, clients must have a specific goal they want to achieve with the support of a coach. Some clients want to acquire new skills or enhance leadership competencies, while others might have an organizational challenge to overcome. The majority of coaching clients report that the benefits of coaching are improvements in relationships, teamwork, job satisfaction and productivity in addition to achievement of specific objectives.

Who are the Coaches?

Vantage Point and the ICF, Vancouver Chapter, have selected professionally trained, experienced coaches. The coaches are members of the ICF, are certified as professional coaches and have at least 5 years of experience in volunteering or working with not-for-profit organizations.

Is Coaching for our Organization?

Your organization is appropriate for Coaching for Mission Alignment if the Executive Director/CEO has:

• A commitment to be mission-driven
• 1 or 2 specific issues that the Executive Director would like to tackle
• A good working relationship between the Board Chair and Executive Director – and a desire to learn
• An ethos of accountability and transparency

Is there a cost to participate in Coaching for Mission Alignment?

The fee to participate, per organization, is $1,000 + GST.

Download the application form now or contact Maria Turnbullat 604 638 3386 for more information

 ¹ CompassPoint NonProfit Services, Coaching and Philanthropy,Executive Summary: An Action Guide for Grantmakers.2010. Available on-line at: http://www.compasspoint.org/assets/1013_executivesummarycoachinga.pdf

² CompassPoint NonProfit Services, Daring to Lead 2006. Available on-line at:  http://www.compasspoint.org/assets/194_daringtolead06final.pdf