Being a Co-operative Director Diploma

Workshops

Date

By the end of this workshop you will...

The Role of a Co-operative Director

• Assess your current skill set and competencies against the requirements of your role as a leader and your organisations objectives
• Evaluate your organisations approach to leadership with regard to ethics and values 
• Discuss leadership styles and how they can be adapted to different scenarios 
• Evaluate the impact you have in leading the team in the achievement of objectives 
• Reflect on the communication you have with colleagues and considered how well you have supported them in your role as a leader
• Create a personal development plan with challenging but achievable goals that will advance your professional development

• Have reflected on your performance, identified objectives to improve further and thought about what needs to be done in order to achieve them
• Understand how to plan and manage your workload effectively in order to achieve your goals
• Reflected on the working relationships you have that can help you achieve your objectives
• Developed a personal development plan with actions to take once you return to your workplace and identify how you will evaluate it
• Plan the resources you will require for personal professional development
• Explain how to support and promote staff welfare

• Understand how to develop personal networks to support your current and future organisational objectives
• Identify contacts you have who possess the influence or skillset to help meet the aims of your organisation.
• Design a data gathering process to produce information from networks to assist in organisational planning
• Be able to use the skill of encouraging and supporting implementation of ideas from the network across your organisation
• Understand the need to establish and support networks to help you achieve your personal and professional goals

Meeting Stakeholder Needs

• Explain how stakeholders differ in a co-op to other types of organisation
• Identify the stakeholders in your organisation and plan to meet their needs
• Describe how review your activities in order to continually meet stakeholder needs
• Reflect upon the quality standards that exist in your organisation and identify improvements that could be made
• Understand how to notify stakeholders if there is a need to change system, procedures or practice

Cooperative Decision   Making

• Identify and select sources of data and information
• Be able to analyse and present information to support decision making
• Be able to communicate information that supports decision making
• Understand how to achieve decisions that are acceptable to all stakeholders in your organisation
• Encourage discussion of potential obstacles, facilitating development of alternatives approaches to decision making in co-operatives

Corporate Social Responsibility and Co-operatives

4th September 2019

• Understand the Principle of an organisational CSR strategy
• Have reflected on the current CSR strategy of your organisation
• Explain the impact of an organisational CSR strategy on organisational performance
• Describe how you implement and evaluate organisational CSR strategy at operational level
• Considered the responsibilities of different members of your organisation in taking part in and executing the CSR plan.