Effective Leadership & Management of Teams
All too often volunteer leaders/trustees and employees in the non-profit sector can find themselves in management and leadership roles without having a full understanding of what such roles actually involve. Furthermore, it is frequently the case that no further training or support is offered to people in these demanding positions.
Target Audience
For small and medium sized non-profit organisations, community, voluntary, charitable & social enterprise registered in the Republic of Ireland. Board Members, CEOs, Managers, Members of Management Teams, or anyone interested in any of these roles.
Outline
What does it mean to be an effective leader and/or an effective manager? How do we develop these capacities within us and apply them to our everyday lives and work?
Working in a non-profit organisations means being a Board member, a CEO, manager or a team leader or a mixture of these. Can we perform these roles more effectively and how can we develop the skills to do this? How can be become transformative leaders and managers in our non-profit organisations?
This 4-part online Leadership Programme will give participants an opportunity reflect about their work, build confidence, learn practical skills and develop important people management capacities. It is comprised of 4 parts:
- Leadership: Values, emotional intelligence, understanding ourselves, being able to reflect on what makes us a leader, developing our own leadership styles, the connection between leadership and motivation; leadership types; how we can test ourselves and our leadership qualities.
- Leadership and Teams: Taking our leadership style out into the world; ways to build really successful teams; getting our teams to engage and collaborate, motivating our teams; building successful team culture; how we can explore the type of team player I am.
- Leadership Teams and Effective Management: The fundamentals of effectiveness; leadership and management – differences; how we can combine leadership, management, mentoring and coaching to get the best from our people; effective management and strategic planning – defining vison, the promise and the delivery mechanism. Dealing with management challenges for new and existing managers.
- Implementation: Practical ways in which we apply the leadership and team management skills we have learned: effective communication and influencing; building engagement; introducing and managing change, working with conflict; dealing with difficult situations and people.
The schedule for this programme is:
- Tuesday 15th September 6:30pm-9pm
- Tuesday 22nd September 6:30pm-9pm
- Tuesday 29th September 6:30pm-9pm
- Tuesday 6th October 6:30pm-9pm
Methodology
Via Zoom.
The funding for the provision of these services comes from the National Training Fund administered by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science. The €75 nominal charge is by way of contribution. Participants will be asked to provide further information regarding Age Range, Gender, Employment Status, Educational Background, Role in Organisation, Organisation Activity & Size post registration.
Mental Health, Emotional Agility and Resilience / Leadership from the Inside Out
Target Audience
For small and medium sized non-profit organisations, community, voluntary, charitable & social enterprise registered in the Republic of Ireland. Designed for Not-for-Profit Professionals, Leaders and Social Enterprise Changemakers.
Programme Aim:
To equip participants with the mindset, emotional skillset and grounded resilience to lead in a changing and complex environment, strengthening inner capacity to sustain outer impact.
Programme Overview:
Session 1: Building Mental Strength – Embracing your mind so it works with you and not against you
Session 2: Emotion in Motion – Feel what you feel without getting stuck there
Session 3: Resilience from the Inside Out – Grow stronger through challenge with greater ease and less stress.
Session 4: Learning to Leadership – Real life empowerment as a leader whilst being who you are
The schedule for this programme is:
- Wednesday 16th September 10am – 12.30pm
- Wednesday 23rd September 10am – 12.30pm
- Wednesday 30th September 10am – 12.30pm
- Wednesday 7th October 10am – 12.30pm
Delivery Method:
This initiative is delivered online over 4 sessions each 2.5 hours duration. The method of delivery includes theoretical input, reflective exercises, group dialogue and practical tools. The final session culminates in key learning and action planning for real life application.
The funding for the provision of these services comes from the National Training Fund administered by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science. The €75 nominal charge is by way of contribution. Participants will be asked to provide further information regarding Age Range, Gender, Employment Status, Educational Background, Role in Organisation, Organisation Activity & Size post registration.
Embracing Diversity, Encouraging Inclusion – Online
Target Audience
For small and medium sized non-profit organisations, community, voluntary, charitable & social enterprise registered in the Republic of Ireland. The Programme is designed to enhance your understanding of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) – what it is & why it matters for your Board, your teams and yourself. Relevant Equality legislation is referenced and how it links with our day-to-day. The course delves into the barriers that constrain our ability to fully embrace diversity and sustain an inclusive working environment. This includes a deep dive into the impact of our biases on how we communicate, collaborate and make decisions. And, crucially, what we can do about it to mitigate the negative impact and accelerate a positive cultural transformation.
Priority will be given to participants from Charities/Community Groups/Voluntary Organisations/Social Enterprises in the Republic of Ireland whose turnover is less than €1 million per year. Maximum number of participants will be 16. The schedule for this online 3-part Programme is:
- Phase 1 Thursday 14th May 10am-12noon
- Phase 2 Thursday 21st May 10am-12noon
- Phase 3 Thursday 28th May 10am-12noon
Content
A three-phased integrated, interactive program. A roadmap towards an integrated, inclusive strategy.
Phase 1: 2 hour session
What is Diversity & Inclusion and why do they matter?
PRE-WORK:
- The importance of Diversity
- The power of Inclusion
LIVE:
- Why D&I?
- What’s in it for me?
- How D&I will help you attract talent, connect with stakeholders and outsmart the competition
1 week gap
Phase 2: 2 hour session
What’s holding us back? A deep dive into our biases experts.
PRE-WORK:
The science of bias and how it impacts our decisions in the workplace.
LIVE:
- Understanding Bias
- Shift from Unconscious Bias to Conscious Inclusion
- Creating the right conditions for an Inclusive Environment
1 week gap
Phase 3: 2 hour session
Overcoming barriers to implementation
PRE-WORK:
Making it Real – Bringing inclusion to life in your organisation.
LIVE:
- Practical tools & techniques to overcome barriers to implementation
- Action Planning for the future
The road continues beyond Phase 3 as you apply your learnings and reap the measurable rewards.
Methodology
Via Zoom.
The funding for the provision of these services comes from the National Training Fund administered by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science. The €75 nominal charge is by way of contribution. Participants will be asked to provide further information regarding Age Range, Gender, Employment Status, Educational Background, Role in Organisation, Organisation Activity & Size post registration.
Effective Leadership & Management of Teams
All too often volunteer leaders/trustees and employees in the non-profit sector can find themselves in management and leadership roles without having a full understanding of what such roles actually involve. Furthermore, it is frequently the case that no further training or support is offered to people in these demanding positions.
Target Audience
For small and medium sized non-profit organisations, community, voluntary, charitable & social enterprise registered in the Republic of Ireland. Board Members, CEOs, Managers, Members of Management Teams, or anyone interested in any of these roles.
Outline
What does it mean to be an effective leader and/or an effective manager? How do we develop these capacities within us and apply them to our everyday lives and work?
Working in a non-profit organisations means being a Board member, a CEO, manager or a team leader or a mixture of these. Can we perform these roles more effectively and how can we develop the skills to do this? How can be become transformative leaders and managers in our non-profit organisations?
This 4-part online Leadership Programme will give participants an opportunity reflect about their work, build confidence, learn practical skills and develop important people management capacities. It is comprised of 4 parts:
- Leadership: Values, emotional intelligence, understanding ourselves, being able to reflect on what makes us a leader, developing our own leadership styles, the connection between leadership and motivation; leadership types; how we can test ourselves and our leadership qualities.
- Leadership and Teams: Taking our leadership style out into the world; ways to build really successful teams; getting our teams to engage and collaborate, motivating our teams; building successful team culture; how we can explore the type of team player I am.
- Leadership Teams and Effective Management: The fundamentals of effectiveness; leadership and management – differences; how we can combine leadership, management, mentoring and coaching to get the best from our people; effective management and strategic planning – defining vison, the promise and the delivery mechanism. Dealing with management challenges for new and existing managers.
- Implementation: Practical ways in which we apply the leadership and team management skills we have learned: effective communication and influencing; building engagement; introducing and managing change, working with conflict; dealing with difficult situations and people.
The schedule for this programme is:
- Wednesday 29th April 6:30pm-9pm
- Wednesday 6th May 6:30pm-9pm
- Wednesday 13th May 6:30pm-9pm
- Wednesday 20th May 6:30pm-9pm
Methodology
Via Zoom.
The funding for the provision of these services comes from the National Training Fund administered by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science. The €75 nominal charge is by way of contribution. Participants will be asked to provide further information regarding Age Range, Gender, Employment Status, Educational Background, Role in Organisation, Organisation Activity & Size post registration.
Strategic Planning Support
Strategic planning is necessary to determine the direction of your organisation. It focuses your efforts and ensures that everyone in the organisation is working towards a common goal. It also helps you agree actions that will help to improve the lives of your beneficiaries, focus on your funders requirements and contribute to the sustainability of your organisation.
Approach
Carmichael will work with your organisation on a 1-1 basis offering a customised support package during the course of 2026 with a view to helping your organisation to develop a Strategic Plan.
Target audience
- Charities, community groups/voluntary organisations/social enterprises registered in the Republic of Ireland
- Places are restricted to organisations with an annual turnover of less than €500,000.
- A small group (2-3) of representatives (staff/directors/trustees) with sufficient seniority per organisation committed to reviewing, setting, or influencing the direction and priorities for an organisation.
When booking online, only enrol one person and pay one €100 fee, we will subsequently be in touch with you for information regarding other participants from your organisation. The option to avail of the NTF Impact Management Support Programme 2026 is available to 5 organisations only.
Format
- Preparation for and delivery of an initial Zoom introductory session per organisation to clarify what is involved in strategic planning and the steps involved. Discuss your current strategy and aims. Discuss the key elements of a strategic plan: your vision, your mission, your values, an understanding of the landscape and your place within it, setting goals and objectives, measuring outcomes and KPIs. Walk through the different sections of a strategic plan and implementation plan based on a templates for completion by the organisation. Brainstorm key messages and implications.
- Subsequently agree timelines for the production of the strategic plan including an implementation plan and further Zoom sessions to discuss and review objectives, strategic goals and confirm priorities and sign off on Strategic Plan
- Review drafts prepared by the organisation and give feedback.
- The facilitator’s main support will be in advising and giving feedback on drafts produced by the organisation and mentoring
- Timelines for engagement on early and developed drafts to be agreed between the organisation’s main contact and our facilitator. A maximum of 20 hours support will be provided to any one organisation.
Methodology
Via Zoom.
The funding for the provision of these services comes from the National Training Fund administered by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science. The €100 nominal charge is by way of contribution. All participants will be asked to provide further information regarding Age Range, Gender, Employment Status, Educational Background, Role in Organisation, Organisation Activity & Size post registration.
Impact Management
The management of social impact remains elusive for many organisations in the charity and non-profit sector. When impact is considered, it is usually thought of as a task of measurement done to prove one’s worth to funders, as opposed to a comprehensive way of approaching all that one does to improve life for one’s beneficiaries. Although the situation is gradually getting better, there are many organisations who remain in need of support.
Approach
Previous experience suggests that providing one-off training to groups of people from different organisations is unsatisfactory and does not result in substantive post-course action by those organisations. A customised support package for individual organisations is far preferable.
Target audience
- Community groups/voluntary organisations/social enterprises registered in the Republic of Ireland.
- Small to medium in size.
- A small group (2-3) of representatives (staff/directors/trustees) with sufficient seniority per organisation.
- Committed to engaging in the capacity building and making organisational changes on foot of it.
When booking online, only enrol one person and pay one €100 fee, we will subsequently be in touch with you for information regarding other participants from your organisation. The option to avail of the NTF Impact Management Support Programme 2026 is available to 5 organisations only.
Format
- Preparation for and delivery of a half-day Zoom meeting to clarify the social/economic/environmental challenge your organisation is seeking to address and the social change process that underpins your work
- Co-drafting and final agreement of a theory of the problem and theory of change via email/phone
- Preparation for and delivery of a half-day Zoom meeting some weeks later to begin undertaking a measurement audit and analyse this with regard to the agreed theory of change
- Co-drafting and final agreement of a new measurement framework via email/phone
- Coaching on outstanding impact-related issues some weeks later via Zoom/email/phone
Methodology
Via Zoom.
The funding for the provision of these services comes from the National Training Fund administered by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science. The €100 nominal charge is by way of contribution. All participants will be asked to provide further information regarding Age Range, Gender, Employment Status, Educational Background, Role in Organisation, Organisation Activity & Size post registration.
Annual Reporting Support
Carmichael has delivered many half day workshops on Annual Reports to many groups of organisations nationwide in recent years and we believe that while such workshops deliver some success, many organisations still struggle to turn that learning into the development of quality Annual Reports. We can also see from our experience with the Carmichael Good Governance Awards that there are very few submissions from the smaller organisations, though we have seen an improvement this year. Although it is not a specific ambition of the Programme that participating organisations will enter the awards, we have seen in the last couple of years some organisations that have participated in this Programme have progressed onto shortlists on the Awards, and one organisation went on to win in their category.
Approach
The annual report represents a real opportunity for organisations in the nonprofit sector across Ireland to showcase their transparency and build trust by outlining their performance, governance, culture and financials. An annual report can provide a comprehensive picture of a nonprofit organisation, as well as its achievements and future plans rather than just meeting minimum compliance requirements. An annual report serves to reinforce relationships with stakeholders and build relationships with the public, potential donors, volunteers and supporters.
This Programme proposes that we work with a limited number of organisations on a 1-1 basis offering customised consultancy during the course of 2026 with a view to helping them develop the best Annual Reports that they can.
Target audience
- Community groups/voluntary organisations/social enterprises in the Republic of Ireland. Organisations that have been shortlisted for Carmichael’s Good Governance Awards at any time in the past will not be included.
- Small to medium in size, with an annual turnover of less than €750,000
- A small group (2-3) of representatives (staff/directors/trustees) with sufficient seniority per organisation.
When booking online, only enrol one person and pay one €100 fee, we will subsequently be in touch with you for information regarding other participants from your organisation. The option to avail of the NTF Annual Report Support Programme 2026 is available to 5 organisations only.
Format
Initial two-hours Introductory session per Organisation to cover:
- Walk through of the different sections of an annual report.
- Planning & preparation – determining the format.
- Telling the organisation’s story and its impact of its work.
Subsequent to the above session the group and the facilitator will agree timelines for the production and reviewing of drafts of the Report. The facilitator will be available to advise and comment on drafts produced by the organisation.
Dates & times for the initial sessions and for engagement on early and developed drafts to be agreed between the organisation’s main contact and facilitator. A maximum of 10 hours support will be provided to any one organisation.
Methodology
Via Zoom.
The funding for the provision of these services comes from the National Training Fund administered by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science. The €100 nominal charge is by way of contribution. All participants will be asked to provide further information regarding Age Range, Gender, Employment Status, Educational Background, Role in Organisation, Organisation Activity & Size post registration.
Grow with Courage. Lead with Clarity.
Carmichael is delighted to partner with Brave Futures Coaching, a triple-accredited (ICF, EMCC, AC) coaching practice supporting leaders across the charity, social enterprise, and housing sectors to grow with authenticity and purpose.
This is an exclusive discounted offer available only to Carmichael clients.
You care deeply. You’re juggling people, purpose, and pressure – board expectations, funding challenges, and the emotional weight of leadership. You’re brilliant at holding space for others. But who holds space for you?
That’s where Coaching comes in.
About Brave Futures Coaching
Brave Futures Coaching provides reflective, affirming, and values-led coaching for leaders who want to pause, reset, and reconnect with what matters most.
This isn’t about fixing, it’s about creating brave, honest spaces to explore your leadership, unlock new insights, and find a sustainable way forward.
Triple-accredited across the International Coaching Federation (ICF), European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC), and Association for Coaching (AC), standards, Brave Futures Coaching brings professional rigour and real-world understanding to every conversation.
Exclusive Carmichael Coaching Packages
All sessions are 60 minutes and online, and include reflection tools, and email support between sessions.
Choose a rhythm that fits your energy and goals, whether that’s fortnightly for consistent momentum or monthly for deeper reflection between sessions.
Starter Path – 3 Months
Fortnightly: 6 sessions at €125 per session — €750 total
Monthly: 3 sessions at €125 per session — €375 total
Perfect if you want to explore coaching for the first time or focus on a specific leadership goal.
Growth Journey – 6 Months
Fortnightly: 12 sessions at €120 per session — €1,440 total
Monthly: 6 sessions at €120 per session — €720 total
Ideal for developing stronger leadership habits, confidence, and clarity over time.
Momentum Journey – 8 Months
Fortnightly: 16 sessions at €115 per session — €1,840 total
Monthly: 8 sessions at €115 per session — €920 total
Designed for leaders seeking sustained support, reflection, and accountability as they lead change.
Transformation Journey – 12 Months
Fortnightly: 24 sessions at €110 per session — €2,640 total
Monthly: 12 sessions at €110 per session — €1,320 total
The most comprehensive journey — for those committed to long-term growth, resilience, and impact.
Exclusive Discount for Carmichael Clients
These reduced rates are exclusive to Carmichael clients — a saving of up to €360.
Flexible payment options: By package, or invoiced through your organisation.
Who It’s For
- Chief Executives and leaders seeking clarity or renewal
- Managers stepping into leadership or navigating change
- Purpose-driven professionals balancing passion with pressure
- Leaders who want a coach who affirms their identity, values, and goals
What Clients Say
“Coaching gave me the clarity and confidence I didn’t know I needed. As a leader in the charity sector, it was a rare gift to feel so understood, supported, and challenged in all the right ways.”
Nonprofit Leader
“…. coaching was confronting, in the best possible way. It challenged me to reflect deeply, reframe my thinking, and shift my mindset. These moments of discomfort led to real growth and clarity. I now feel better equipped to manage challenging situations and lead with confidence and integrity.” Executive Leader
How It Works
1️⃣ Free Chemistry Call (30 min) – explore what you need and whether coaching feels right for you.
2️⃣ Choose Your Coaching Path – fortnightly or monthly packages from 3–12 months.
3️⃣ Begin the Journey – you bring your challenges; we bring deep listening, structure, and care.
Ready to Begin?
Step into a coaching space designed for reflection, renewal, and brave leadership – with exclusive discounted rates for Carmichael clients.
Book your free discovery call today – (webform/contact)