Institute For Social Change

Tag: Webinars

  • 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