Workshop for Executive Directors

Learn how to maximize your limited resources including staffing and successfully manage the fiscal operations of your agency in this day and one half training. Discuss asset management and how it will affect your agency. Discover best practices and participate in a practicum examining the key aspects of housing operations: maintenance, modernization/ construction administration, occupancy, and inspections. (1.2 CEUs)

Who Should Attend

This is a great course for the new executive director, or as a refresher for veterans, and those for whom an executive director's position is the next step on their career ladder.

What You Will Learn

  • How to maximize your limited resources including staffing
  • Best practices
  • How to manage the fiscal operations of your agency
  • How to handle ethical and procurement issues
  • Housing maintenance, modernization, occupancy, and inspections

Agenda

Day I 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 

Introduction

  • Welcoming
  • Expectations
  • Objectives

Your Personnel and Board

  • Agency Plan
  • Work Flow Analysis
  • Work Assignments
  •  Compensation
  • Cross Training
  • Creating and Maintaining an Effective-Relationship with Your Board
  • Distinction between Policy and Administration

Planning for New Ventures

  • The Planning Function
  • A Strategic Planning Model and Process
  • The Bryson Model of Strategic Planning
  • Steps to Achieve a Strategic Plan
  •  Sample

Professional Ethics

  • Accountability
  • Ethics Checklist
  • Ethical Guidance: Where do I look?
  • Class Exercise: Ethics

Effects of QHWRA

  • Agency Plan
  • Admissions and Eligibility
  • Selection and Admission
  • Changes = Options
  • The Operating Fund
  • Adjustment for Regulatory and Operating Environment
  • Asset Management

HCV Administration

  • Important Tasks
  • Record Retention
  • Oversight of Screening
  • Quality Control
  • Fraud and Program Abuse
  • Working as a Team
  • Sample Letters

Day II 8:30a.m.-1:00 p.m. 

Recap of Day One & Questions on Homework Reading Assignment

Case Studies

  • Case Study Resource Materials
  • Negotiations
  • Public Housing Occupancy
  • Financial Management
  • Capital Fund
  • Maintenance
  • Resident Services

Wrap-Up

 

Contact Eugene Rudder at erudder@nahro.org or call him toll-free at 1-877-866-2476, ext. 7237 if you would like to bring this seminar to your agency, region or chapter as an on-site training.