Effective management unlocks talent and distributes leadership, increases job satisfaction, and cultivates a collaborative workplace culture. Unlock your company's true strength while aligning your practice and your purpose with the School for Democratic Management.
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Our School is unique in the field of management training; instructors are current and former managers of successful companies with employee ownership. We work closely with them to identify key lessons for actualizing company values.
The School for Democratic Management helps managers build the strong participatory ownership culture that an agile, people-centered business needs through our Democratic Management Skills Check-Ups, What Works Webinar Series, and intensive Crash Courses.
A free assessment of your democratic management skills, conducted through a 60-minute webinar offered the first Thursday of each month in 2018.
A series of webinars in which experienced managers from employee-owned companies tell real-life stories of successes, failures and rebounds. These 75-minute webinars are offered every other Wednesday.
A 1.5 day crash course in Open Book Management, decision making, board–management relationship, and functional democratic structures. Offered in person, in regions across the US.
We formed the School to help new and experienced managers of businesses with employee ownership and democratic practices understand what they need to know to develop and boost their management skills. We are doing just that.
Between our webinars and in-person programs, we will exceed 30 offerings in the School's first year.
The businesses represented at our trainings range from micro to large in a variety of industries with different levels of employee ownership.
We have reached employees across the country through participatory trainings on diverse topics.
Nicole Koch, Technicians For Sustainability (TFS)
