Courses

Advanced Strategies for Racial Equity within Nonprofits

This workshop provides advanced strategies for undoing institutional racism in the nonprofit sector while building a community of practitioners dedicated to this goal.

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Applying an Equity Lens to Project Management: An Implementation Roadmap

This highly interactive workshop is a deep dive into how to apply a racial equity lens to Project Management decision-making processes.

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Building a Community Advisory Board (CAB)

Establishing community advisory boards (CABs) is a strategy in building a more equitable organization, while being held accountable to the communities most impacted by organizational practices. This 90-minute webinar is a space for organizational leaders to begin exploring the ways a CAB can further their agency's racial equity work.

Thursday, October 21, 2021, Zoom

Building an Equity Team

If you've been wondering whether an equity team is right for your organization, this conversation is for you. This one-hour webinar will share a brief overview of how to build a foundation for a successful equity team launch, including the creation of an action plan.

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Classic Washington Beer

A virtual tasting of five different beer styles from breweries that started in Washington before 1990.

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Cost Management: Budget, Control, and Reporting

How to estimate the labor and non-labor costs throughout the project lifecycle and share progress through visuals.

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Deconstructing Boards of Directors

In this 2.5-hour workshop, participants will learn about how white dominant norms show up within Board structure and how to create practices for a more inclusive and equitable Board of Directors.

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Designing and Leading Change

Designing change that matters and accelerating its integration into a new way of doing business is the centerpiece of this workshop. You'll discover the three phases of transition, the 6Ps of new beginnings, the three questions to ask of any change initiative, effective change communication strategies, and a variety of smart ways to design change with intentionality and care.

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From Peer to Supervisor

Move from an individual contributor to a "multiplier of others" in this half-day workshop. Participants will learn a framework for creating exceptional performance by defining their role as a supervisor and what they bring to it, delegating effectively, and understanding how to create a motivating environment for employees.

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Getting the Right People on the Bus: Effective Hiring Practices

This half-day workshop provides participants with a repeatable process and practical tools to make their hiring and onboarding practices more reliably effective. We'll cover all nine steps of the hiring process (analyzing the position through making the job offer), as well as a straightforward onboarding process that will support newly-hired employees in becoming full contributors in record time.

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Race, Power and Social Impact within Nonprofit Organizations

This workshop provides an overview of the history and present state of those dynamics and provides for discussion of tools and practices that can advance the cause of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in-and through the work of-nonprofit organizations

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Resolving Workplace Conflict

Leaders spend much of their time communicating to execute strategy and address conflicts. In order to resolve these roadblocks to success, leaders need skills to quickly and fairly resolve issues, create win-win results, and reduce the high cost of conflict.

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Scope Management: Change Control Toward Success

Keep the project within agreed guardrails and document approved changes when required.

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Stakeholder Analysis: Identification and Engagement

Key stakeholders can make or break your project. Create champions out of key stakeholders, keep them engaged, and help them with timely decision-making.

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Supervisor Skills: Time Management for Managers

This workshop focuses on tools to manager others and their work, while feeling more productive and less stressed. Participants will evaluate how their time is currently spent and learn techniques to prioritize and increase mental focus. Participants also learn how to use time-saving methods and tools to spend time wisely.

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The OD Toolkit: Aligning the Organization for Results

In this workshop, you will learn how to think systemically, apply such thinking to current workplace challenges, and create strategies for success.

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Thinking Strategically About Your Career

Think you might want to make a change? Not sure where to start? During this two-hour workshop, participants work with road-tested tools for developing a vision of where they want to be in their career, analyzing strategies and SMART goals, then creating next steps to explore new opportunities.

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Understanding Data: Applied Statistical Process Control

Learn a simple and practical approach for gaining insight, understanding and knowledge from the study of process behavior. This is not a seminar on statistics and no major math calculations are required. All exercises and case studies will be completed using Excel templates.

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Unpacking Failed DEI Efforts

In this 90-minute workshop, participants will take an honest look at DEI efforts that are falling short. They will unpack DEI methods build on quick fixes, explore more meaningful and sustainable strategies, and identify ways to pivot in response to failed DEI efforts.

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