Institute For Social Change

Category: Free Webinar

  • New Manager: Supervising and Evaluating Your Peers

    New Manager: Supervising and Evaluating Your Peers

    Session Description

    The transition from a staff member or peer volunteer to management can be a difficult advancement if you do not have experience in leading people or groups. This session will provide you with a foundation for understanding the requirements necessary when making this transition and increase your overall effectiveness while in the workplace. In the session, you will have a chance to learn more about your leadership style and how to lead and build on your strengths and natural abilities. We also will discuss strategies to assist those new in management roles to lead and supervise individuals that are more experienced or their peer professionally. Lastly, we will discuss strategies to manage conflict and how to motivate your staff/volunteers to bring out their best skills and abilities.

    Outcomes

    • Participants will evaluate their management style and concerns about managing their peers and people with more experience.
    • Participants will learn strategies to supervise, lead and evaluate their team that increases the outcomes and  overall positive feelings in the work or service environment
    • Participants will leave with a plan for their personal leadership style that motivates and supports their work with peers and subordinates.

  • Virtual Learning: A Guide to Virtual Internships

    Virtual Learning: A Guide to Virtual Internships

    Session Description

    A recent survey found that 75% of the workforce won’t work in a traditional office by 2020. With advances in technology, the office can be almost anywhere. Designing an office culture and strategies to support this change will be a challenge that all organizations will need to address to retain and support their staff. To tackle global issues, it is important to also know how to collaborate, plan and organize across geographic boundaries. Using our successful virtual office structure and examples from our work developing digital strategies for clients, we will provide best practices to create flexible remote work options and avoid common mistakes. We also will share simple strategies to support a mixed office structure and culture that allows remote and satellite workers and volunteers to feel connected.

    Outcomes

    1. Understand the best practices for remote and virtual work
    2. Developing a virtual office culture and keeping remote workers connected
    3. Strategies for strong collaboration and communication while avoiding the common pitfalls of remote work
  • The Invisible Office:A Guide to Remote Work Environments and Virtual Office Culture

    The Invisible Office:A Guide to Remote Work Environments and Virtual Office Culture

    Session Description

    A recent survey found that 75% of the workforce won’t work in a traditional office by 2020. With advances in technology, the office can be almost anywhere. Designing an office culture and strategies to support this change will be a challenge that all organizations will need to address to retain and support their staff. To tackle global issues, it is important to also know how to collaborate, plan and organize across geographic boundaries. Using our successful virtual office structure and examples from our work developing digital strategies for clients, we will provide best practices to create flexible remote work options and avoid common mistakes. We also will share simple strategies to support a mixed office structure and culture that allows remote and satellite workers and volunteers to feel connected.

    Outcomes

    • Understand the best practices for remote and virtual work
    • Developing a virtual office culture and keeping remote workers connected
    • Strategies for strong collaboration and communication while avoiding the common pitfalls of remote work
  • Social Branding: Building Your Brand and Cause on Social Networks

    Social Branding: Building Your Brand and Cause on Social Networks

    Session Description

    There are so many social media platforms that it can be overwhelming where to start and how to begin to create content and awareness with online networks.  You also want to build consistency across the many platforms so people connect with your program(s) and your mission. In this hands-on workshop, we will share best practices to build multi-platform campaigns for your program and to connect with followers and supporters through social media. Learn key strategies to get your staff, volunteers and stakeholders not only connecting with your mission but helping you build your social media presence.

    Outcomes

    • Develop an understanding of the benefits of different platforms for different purposes and how to determine which platform is right for your work, organization, and strategy.
    • Create actual items and content that you could share on social media during and immediately after the session
    • Receive on the spot feedback and information on your strategy, ideas and creations to assure you understand and can apply the concepts in real time.
  • No Budget Tech: Leveraging Technology for your program with little to no budget

    No Budget Tech: Leveraging Technology for your program with little to no budget

    Session Description

    In this session, we will share best practices to leverage free and low-cost technologies to support your mission and operations. We will also share strategies and methods that organizations can use to increase awareness and connections around their social change efforts with strategies for technology, social media, and virtual networks. With a focus on helping organizations to leverage modern technology to be more effective, attendees will leave with practical steps to implement technology and digital mobilization strategies for any size organization on any budget.

    Outcomes

    • Develop an understanding of why technology matters for organizations and how to remove barriers within any organization to increase efficiency
    • Free resources that are easy to use by any individual or group regardless of the size of budget
    • Leave with a strategy to return home and implement a digital plan within your organization that increases collaboration, awareness or processes for program management