Interpersonal Leadership

Relationship building is a core aspect of philanthropic practice. Strengthening one’s interpersonal leadership skills will allow for deeper partnerships with community, grantee partners, and other colleagues in support of shared goals.

This includes:

  • Developing and understanding of emotional intelligence and how to utilize it in communications with others
  • Using person-first and nonviolent communication to understand core needs of communities and grantee partners
  • Prioritizing the relational over the transactional to build more mutually fulfilling and long-lasting networks
  • Seeking to “do no harm” and being respectful of trauma, inclusive of recognizing one’s own trauma-related responses
  • Examining allyship and how to utilize one’s positional privilege to support others

You can also build on your interpersonal leadership by supplementing it with your personal leadership through Self-Advocacy, using it to move things within the sector through Advocacy & Policy, or taking a look at all seven ILF cornerstones here.



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Interpersonal Leadership Events

EPIP has events that focus on interpersonal leadership throughout the year, both through our webinars and national programming and through our chapter work. Any upcoming events will be listed below, but past events include Grounding in Our Truths For More Effective, Genuine, and Humanizing Racial Justice Conversations (EPIP's Sankofa Summer), Building Coalitions Across Communities of Color (EPIP Philly), and Crucial Conversations Training (EPIP Minnesota).

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