2025
Lunch and Learn Series
As a nonprofit professional, I want an affordable, easy-to-digest webinar series that I can choose to participate in as I please so that I can strengthen my Agile Journey.
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Purchase includes access to all 2025 sessions and recordings
Take advantage of early bird pricing until January 1, 2025!
Purchase includes access to all 2025 sessions and recordings
Take advantage of early bird pricing until January 1, 2025!
January 15th | 12:00pm ET
How to Use Agile to Help Your Team Avoid Burnout
Trainer: Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST
Description: In this interactive session, we will look at how a variety of nonprofit organizations have formed their Agile team(s), in order to help you find ideas based on successful implementations in other groups. We will walk through a facilitation method for building a team working agreement to help create shared understanding in your team(s) about why they will be working together and helping them identify the unique skills each team member brings to the team.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to form an Agile Team
- Learn what roles/accountabilities you want on your Agile team
- Learn how to highlight and utilize the unique skills of each team member
Description: In this interactive session, we will look at how a variety of nonprofit organizations have formed their Agile team(s), in order to help you find ideas based on successful implementations in other groups. We will walk through a facilitation method for building a team working agreement to help create shared understanding in your team(s) about why they will be working together and helping them identify the unique skills each team member brings to the team.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to form an Agile Team
- Learn what roles/accountabilities you want on your Agile team
- Learn how to highlight and utilize the unique skills of each team member
January 15th | 12:00pm ET
March 17th | 12:00pm ET
Please Provide Your Feedback by... How to Get Meaningful Feedback to Improve Your Work
Trainer: Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST
Description: In this interactive session, we will explore practical strategies for giving and receiving constructive feedback in teams. This session will equip participants with tools to foster open communication, build trust, and enhance team collaboration through the use of feedback on the work the team is doing.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to build a team that has a culture of feedback
- Learn a variety of ways to ask for and gather feedback about your work
- Learn how to provide meaningful, candid feedback
Description: In this interactive session, we will explore practical strategies for giving and receiving constructive feedback in teams. This session will equip participants with tools to foster open communication, build trust, and enhance team collaboration through the use of feedback on the work the team is doing.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to build a team that has a culture of feedback
- Learn a variety of ways to ask for and gather feedback about your work
- Learn how to provide meaningful, candid feedback
March 17th | 12:00pm ET
May 14th | 12:00pm ET
Using Agile to Unlock the Success of Nonprofit Collaborations
Trainer: Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST
Description: To improve team collaboration and communication, discover how to apply the Agile principle of prioritizing "Individuals and Interactions OVER Processes and Tools." This workshop will provide practical techniques to build effective, adaptable partnerships, whether for one-time projects or for ongoing initiatives. The session will utilize successful examples from recent case studies to foster inspiration for approaches on more human-centered and flexible collaboration within their teams.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to harness the Agile value of "Individuals and Interactions OVER Processes and Tools" in your collaborations
- Learn to build collaborations that are successful whether for one-time projects or for long-term initiatives
- Learn actionable ways to build human-centered and flexible collaborations
Description: To improve team collaboration and communication, discover how to apply the Agile principle of prioritizing "Individuals and Interactions OVER Processes and Tools." This workshop will provide practical techniques to build effective, adaptable partnerships, whether for one-time projects or for ongoing initiatives. The session will utilize successful examples from recent case studies to foster inspiration for approaches on more human-centered and flexible collaboration within their teams.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to harness the Agile value of "Individuals and Interactions OVER Processes and Tools" in your collaborations
- Learn to build collaborations that are successful whether for one-time projects or for long-term initiatives
- Learn actionable ways to build human-centered and flexible collaborations
May 14th | 12:00pm ET
July 16th | 12:00pm ET
The Key to Nonprofit Sustainability - Lessons Learned from Adapting That Can Help You Thrive
Trainer: Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST
Description: This webinar will guide participants through the intentional process of identifying as a team which new ideas and approaches have worked, which showed potential, and which fell short. Learn how to effectively integrate a continuous improvement process into the daily operations of your teams. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped to foster a culture of growth and adaptability within their organizations.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to identify what new ideas and approachs worked, which might have, and which did not
- Learn how to integrate lessons learned from a continuous improvement process into the day-to-day operations of your teams
Description: This webinar will guide participants through the intentional process of identifying as a team which new ideas and approaches have worked, which showed potential, and which fell short. Learn how to effectively integrate a continuous improvement process into the daily operations of your teams. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped to foster a culture of growth and adaptability within their organizations.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to identify what new ideas and approachs worked, which might have, and which did not
- Learn how to integrate lessons learned from a continuous improvement process into the day-to-day operations of your teams
July 16th | 12:00pm ET
September 17th | 12:00pm ET
We All See Things Differently - How to Make Our Collective Work Visible
Trainer: Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST
Description: Have you heard things like this in your organization: "Wait? You're working on that too?!?" OR "I'm not sure that is really the important thing to be working on right now..." In this session, you'll learn how to minimize the surprises of team work by learning how to make the team's work visible. We will demonstrate numerous techniques for showing the same work in different visual ways so that you can engage input from a variety of stakeholders and also minimize the risk for frustration or rework by members of the team.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to make team workflows more visible in order to reduce surprises and improve collaboration
- Discover and learn how to apply various visual techniques to represent work, engaging different stakeholders and minimizing frustration or rework
Description: Have you heard things like this in your organization: "Wait? You're working on that too?!?" OR "I'm not sure that is really the important thing to be working on right now..." In this session, you'll learn how to minimize the surprises of team work by learning how to make the team's work visible. We will demonstrate numerous techniques for showing the same work in different visual ways so that you can engage input from a variety of stakeholders and also minimize the risk for frustration or rework by members of the team.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to make team workflows more visible in order to reduce surprises and improve collaboration
- Discover and learn how to apply various visual techniques to represent work, engaging different stakeholders and minimizing frustration or rework
September 17th | 12:00pm ET
November 12th | 12:00pm ET
You Can Have It All: A Great Service/Product AND a Great Team!
Trainer: Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST
Description: It isn't a fairytale. Teams can work together in a sustainable way that maximizes the awesome skills of each team member AND deliver amazing programs/services/work products to their community and stakeholders. The key to achieving this outcome is focusing on continuous improvement of BOTH the work and the team itself. In this webinar, we will cover how to fit both types of continuous improvement into your team and organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to implement continuous improvement strategies that enhance both team dynamics and the quality of work delivered
- Understand how to balance the development of team skills with program/service improvement to achieve sustainable success in your organization
Description: It isn't a fairytale. Teams can work together in a sustainable way that maximizes the awesome skills of each team member AND deliver amazing programs/services/work products to their community and stakeholders. The key to achieving this outcome is focusing on continuous improvement of BOTH the work and the team itself. In this webinar, we will cover how to fit both types of continuous improvement into your team and organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to implement continuous improvement strategies that enhance both team dynamics and the quality of work delivered
- Understand how to balance the development of team skills with program/service improvement to achieve sustainable success in your organization
November 12th | 12:00pm ET
2024 Lunch and Learn
Purchase the recorded 2024 Lunch and Learn sessions (5) as a package
$99.99