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Most people form a first impression in just a tenth of a second, and there’s no second chances. So, what is your nonprofit's first impression? When you hire a new staff person, what do they think or feel? It's worth asking the question, and it's worth investing in making that first impression a good one.
That’s why, on today’s episode, I‘m sharing three practical ways you can improve your nonprofit's onboarding process and create a great first impression.
▶️ Three Practical Tips to Improve Your Nonprofit's Onboarding Process
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Creating a great first impression with your onboarding process
02:20 Why a good onboarding process is so important
02:58 Three tips to improve your nonprofit’s onboarding process
Resources from this episode:
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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50% of leaders will fail. Even those who were once successful often eventually fail. Leadership failure comes with significant cost. You have to recruit, hire, and onboard a new leader and employees may have left or stopped performing under the old leader.
So why do leaders fail? And how can we in L&D support them so they don't? That’s what we’re exploring in this episode.
▶️ Want Better Leaders? Five Ways to Get Them.
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Leadership failure
02:10 Why leaders fail
02:30 5 Things nonprofits can do to support their leaders’ success
Resources from this episode:
Well-being Episodes:
▶️ Episode 80: How to Add Well-Being to Your People Strategy
▶️ Episode 67: A Well-Being Approach to Leadership Development
▶️ Episode 38: Dealing with Corporate Burnout? One Easy Way to Manage Stress as a Nonprofit Leader with Jessie Pagliari
▶️ Episode 30: Why Well-Being Is The Secret Sauce to Change Management with Mandy Sharp Eizinger
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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70% of organizational changes fail. I feel strongly that almost every training project is a change project. So, how do we successfully facilitate change?
One essential element is social influence.
We have to create the environment and the relationships to help our audience create and sustain the change. But how do we do that? I'm sharing five ways to use social influence to facilitate behavior change in this episode.
▶️ You Need Social Influence to Achieve Behavior Change. Here's How to Create It.
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Why most changes fail
03:00 Getting clear on the change you are trying to make
04:09 5 Ways to use social influence to facilitate behavior change
Resources from this episode:Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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I often hear from nonprofit L&D leaders about the challenges they face with constrained budgets. And I feel their pain. I know so many of you are working with small teams and few resources. But leadership development activities don’t have to be expensive and you don’t have to let a constrained budget keep you from developing your leaders.
That’s why, on this episode, I’m sharing five low to no cost ideas for leadership development.
▶️ Five Low Cost Leadership Development Activities
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 The cycle of learning
03:16 Training on a budget
05:16 Five easy low to no cost leadership development activities
Resources from this episode:
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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You spend months working hard on a training only to launch it and hear crickets. If you can't mandate people take that training, what do you do?
Liz Wilcox’s email marketing membershipAmy PorterfieldThe Lead Magnets PodcastThe HubSpot AcademyJulie’s Brand Strategy Online Course
This is where marketing comes in.
Marketing is a pretty different skill set than what most L&D teams have. And your marketing team may not have the capacity to support you with each new training. That’s why nonprofit L&D teams need email marketing.
That’s what we’re exploring in this episode with marketing expert Julie Nichols.
▶️ Your L&D Team Needs Email Marketing. Expert Julie Nichols Shares Where to Start.
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Why L&D teams need email marketing
07:20 The value of email marketing for L&D
10:53 How your L&D team can get started with email marketing
15:21 How to impact your target audience
18:29 Email marketing resources for L&D teams
Resources from this episode:
The marketing resources Julie recommends:
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Linkedin: Julie Nichols
Website: julienicholsmarketing.com
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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I see a lot of L&D job descriptions and they usually include things like communication skills, project management skills, knowledge of learning design principles, and more. And while these are skills that you certainly do use as an L&D pro, what actually helps you hit the ground running?
In this episode, I’m sharing three not-so-obvious skills or characteristics that actually make people successful in L&D roles.
▶️ Hiring in L&D? Three Things to Look for in Your Next Job Candidate
▶️ Key Points:
02:25 Typical L&D job descriptions
03:15 Three characteristics that make people successful in L&D roles
08:23 How to discover these characteristics in the interview process
Resources from this episode:
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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On today’s episode, I want us to look to the future of L&D.
However, I don't only want to talk about the future of L&D from an L&D lens; I want us to be holistic and well-rounded and hear from a diversity of perspectives. That’s why I’ve invited some of my favorite L&D and L&D adjacent thought leaders to join me to talk about what they hope for the future of L&D.
We’re sharing valuable insights, actionable strategies, and innovative ideas for the future of workplace learning.
▶️ 5 Experts Weigh In on the Future of L&D
▶️ Key Points:
10:53 Using technology and AI to optimize L&D workflows and personalize the learning experience
17:47 How L&D will grow as Gen Z and Gen Alpha continue to come into the workforce
24:06 Becoming a strategic partner
25:20 Making learning more inclusive
27:04 Personalized coaching with context
28:38 The importance of having a learning leader in the C suite
30:03 Well-being as a competency, not just a buzzword
35:17 Focusing on behavior change in community with each other
Resources from this episode:
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Connect with Today’s Guests
Kim Davis: LinkedIn
Chloe Chen: LinkedIn
Dave Allman: LinkedIn
Darren McKee: LinkedIn
Lotus Buckner: LinkedIn
Connect with Heather
Linkedin: Heather Burright
Website: skillmastersmarket.com
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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Fantasy football is an $11 billion business with 29.2 million people playing in the US alone in 2022.
So what’s the appeal?
It's our job to look at what fantasy football is doing well and determine what we can steal to make our training more effective. In today’s episode, I’m exploring the four things L&D can steal from fantasy football to improve our training.
▶️ What Corporate Training Can Steal from Fantasy Football
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 The appeal of fantasy football
04:09 4 Things L&D can steal from fantasy football to improve our training
Resources from this episode:
Episode on blended learning:
▶️ Episode 97: 5 Reasons Blended Learning is Effective for Staff Development
Episodes on making training fun:
▶️ Episode 63: 4 Ways to Use Humor and Storytelling in Your Nonprofit Training
▶️ Episode 36: How Nonprofit Learning and Development Leaders Can Use Play to Create Organizational Change with Acey Holmes
▶️ Episode 07: Do THIS and You Will Never Have a Boring Virtual Training Again with Melissa Dinwiddie
▶️ Episode 05: Three Must-Haves in Any Virtual Training
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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Is generative AI your L&D thought partner?
I've used ChatGPT for this podcast, for LinkedIn posts, for training, and more. And while I don't yet rely on it daily, it's becoming a better partner for me, because I'm getting better at using it.
I love the idea of helping L&D pros like us make generative AI our thought partner, that’s why today’s guest, Valerie Ehrlich, is sharing four ways you can leverage AI to enhance your strategic role in your nonprofit.
▶️ Making Generative AI Your L&D Thought Partner with Valerie Ehrlich
▶️ Key Points:
04:13 Changing mindsets around generative AI
08:23 What is generative AI?
10:14 Four ways you can leverage AI to enhance your strategic role in your nonprofit
17:11 The security and ethical considerations of using generative AI
22:19 Experimenting with generative AI
Resources from this episode:
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LinkedIn: Valerie Ehrlich
Website: missionbloom.co
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Linkedin: Heather Burright
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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I'm a big fan of blended learning…
I like being able to have learners spend some time inside a virtual or in-person classroom, but I also like them to spend time learning independently or in groups outside the classroom.
Blended learning is a great approach to people development. In this episode, I’m sharing 5 reasons why.
▶️ 5 Reasons Blended Learning is a Good Strategy for Staff Development
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Why blended learning aligns with adult learning needs
02:51 5 Reasons why blended learning is effective for staff development
08:53 Is blended learning always the right choice?
Resources from this episode:
Get the Learning for Good Playbook HERE.
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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We often reach for storytelling in our nonprofit training and it’s easy to understand why. Stories evoke emotion, help us connect with each other, and help us learn.
But, there is a wrong and right way to tell a story.
On this episode, Diana Farias Heinrich is sharing her ethical storytelling framework with us so we can tell stories the right way and prevent harm.
As the CEO of Habra Marketing, Diana helps nonprofits use ethical communication strategies and marketing to raise more money.
▶️ STOP Using Stories in Training...Unless You're Using This Framework with Diana Farias Heinrich
▶️ Key Points:
03:59 The importance of stories and how they help us learn
09:50 Telling stories with care
14:20 A framework for ethical storytelling
Resources from this episode:
The Ethical Nonprofit Summit: https://events.ringcentral.com/events/the-ethical-nonprofit-summit/registration
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Linkedin: Diana Farias Heinrich
Website: habramarketing.com
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Linkedin: Heather Burright
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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I start every new training project with a sense of hope and excitement. I'm ready to build a lasting relationship with my client and I feel ready because I have a proven plan for my project kickoff. I'm not reinventing it every time I have a new project.
On today’s episode, I want to share that plan with you.
Whether you're a consultant or currently working inside an organization, this approach should work for you. And hopefully, you'll feel excited and hopeful about your projects when you use it.
▶️ 5 Things to Include in Your Training Project Kickoff
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Starting a new training project with excitement
02:40 5 Things to include in your nonprofit training project kickoff
Resources from this episode:
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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As a training and leadership development consultant, I'm always wondering what we can learn from things around us, like the Olympics.
The Olympics brings together top athletes from around the world as they compete against each other and their best selves. It takes years of practice and dedication to achieve something like this.
We can learn a lot about leadership from the Olympics and I want to share that with you today with special guests Kirk Spahn and Sara Daum.
▶️ Leadership Development Lessons from the Olympics
▶️ Key Points:
02:06 The process that athletes and leaders follow
04:41 Taking the time to celebrate
06:11 Tools that can help shape the future
08:27 Commitment to learning agility
15:40 Connecting to your bigger purpose
Resources from this episode:
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Linkedin: Kirk Spahn & Sara Daum
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Linkedin: Heather Burright
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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We have so many tools available for how we design and deliver learning. From project management and identifying learning needs to delivering our learning solutions, we're using tech throughout the process.
Nonprofit L&D pros have very specific tech needs and we often have unique constraints that other organizations don't have. That's why I'm so excited that I got to chat with Shari Simpson about 10 tech habits that will change the way you lead talent development.
▶️ 10 Tech Habits that Will Change the Way You Lead Talent Development with Shari Simpson of Paylocity
▶️ Key Points:
01:29 Nonprofit L&D tech needs
05:38 Shari’s career journey: From the mental health space to a forward-thinking HR leader
09:52 Paylocity: A modern human capital management system
11:50 10 Tech habits that will change the way you lead talent development
Resources from this episode:
Using Data in Talent Development:
▶️ Episode 81: Using People Data to Drive Impactful Professional Development in Your Nonprofit
▶️ Episode 59: How to Measure the Impact of Your Training and Development
▶️ Episode 72: How Learning and Development Can Use Data to Create a Greater Impact in Training
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LinkedIn: Shari Simpson
Website: askhrswagger.com and paylocity.com
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Linkedin: Heather Burright
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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Getting qualified candidates into the nonprofit leadership candidate pool can be challenging, so we tend to start thinking about our internal candidates. They already know and love our mission so it's logical to want to advance them into these open leadership positions.
But are your future leaders ready?
In this episode, we're going to explore 10 things nonprofits should do to develop their future leaders and build their internal leadership pipeline.
▶️ Building Your Leadership Pipeline? 10 Things Nonprofits Should Do When Developing Future Leaders
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Are your nonprofit’s future leaders ready?
02:36 10 Things nonprofits should do to help build their leadership pipeline
15:36 L&D can help develop your nonprofit leaders
Resources from this episode:
Competency model episodes:
▶️ Episode 79: Taking an Asset-Based Approach to Competency Models
▶️ Episode 51: How to Use Your Competency Model to Develop a Comprehensive Training Program
▶️ Episode 39: Ask These Two Questions to Identify Your Nonprofit's Core Competencies
▶️ Episode 20: How to Determine Which Competencies Are Right for You
▶️ Episode 19: One Nonprofit's Honest Opinion after 6 Months with a Competency Model
▶️ Episode 18: Four Reasons Your Competencies Don't Work
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective:
https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Linkedin: Heather Burright
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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What makes a DEIB training successful?
From meaningful discussion to skilled facilitation, there are a lot of things that make a DEIB training successful. But today, I want to talk about using cohorts in your nonprofit’s DEIB training.
A lot of DEIB trainings are one-off experiences. And if there is more than one training, it's not really set up as a cohort. But I'm a big believer in using cohorts for DEIB training and I’m going to tell you why in this episode.
▶️ Why You Should Use Cohorts in Your Nonprofit's DEIB Training
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Advancing your nonprofit’s DEIB efforts
03:37 The power of relationships and effective communication
06:37 Why you should use cohorts in your nonprofit's DEIB training
Resources from this episode:
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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A good coach or mentor can be powerful. That’s why on today’s episode, I’m sharing five ways you can use coaching and mentoring in your nonprofit’s talent development strategy.
There are so many benefits to coaching and mentoring and these tools can be used in a variety of ways. While this isn’t an exhaustive list, it’s a good place to start.
▶️ The Role of Coaching and Mentoring in Your Nonprofit's Talent Development Strategy
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 The power of a good coach or mentor
02:54 Five ways you can use coaching and mentoring in your nonprofit’s talent development strategy
Resources from this episode:
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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Are you listening to your learners?
In this episode, our guest is strategic listener Emily Taylor. With a background in human-centered design, Emily is an expert listener. I've worked with Emily before and she's helped me and my clients be better listeners so we can identify skill gaps and create tailored training and resources to support behavior change.
She's sharing some of her best tips in this episode, so you can too.
▶️ How This One Needs Analysis Method Can Improve Your Nonprofit Training with Emily Taylor
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Why listening is so important
07:40 Making listening part of your nonprofit training process
09:49 What makes listening challenging for talent development teams
13:15 The benefits of listening to learners in your nonprofit training
18:09 Do this one thing to improve how you listen to your staff right now
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Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
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I couldn't do what I do as a training and leadership development consultant to nonprofits without my support system, and you need a support system too.
You are doing the work day in and day out to lead your L&D team (if you’re a supervisor), engage with your internal partners, and deliver quality learning experiences. There is a lot that goes into this.
That’s why on today’s episode, we’re talking about the four partners every L&D team should have.
▶️ Four Partners Every L&D Team Should Have
▶️ Key Points:
00:58 Why your L&D team needs partners
03:27 The importance of a support system
05:57 Four partners every L&D team should have
Resources from this episode:
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Connect with Heather
Linkedin: Heather Burright
Website: skillmastersmarket.com
Book an interest call with Heather here.--
Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
Produced by Ideablossoms -
In this episode, I’ve invited Karen Knight, volunteer extraordinaire, to give us some specific ways we can supercharge our nonprofit’s volunteer training.
The demand for nonprofit services has increased, but the number of volunteers has decreased before and since COVID. It’s important that volunteers are trained well so that they have a good volunteering experience, and continue to volunteer.
This is the first episode that we have had specifically on volunteer training and I can’t wait for you to hear everything Karen has to share.
▶️ 5 Ways to Supercharge Your Nonprofit's Volunteer Training with Karen Knight
▶️ Key Points:
04:11 Karen’s volunteer journey
07:18 The definition of volunteers and volunteering
10:25 Why it's important to train volunteers
14:07 Challenges in volunteer training
19:19 Supercharge your nonprofit volunteer training
Resources from this episode:
Episodes on creating training that is relevant, meaningful, and fun:
▶️ Episode 73: The Forgetting Curve: How to Make Your New Training More Memorable
▶️ Episode 63: 4 Ways to Use Humor and Storytelling in Your Nonprofit Training with Gita Kulkarni
▶️ Episode 36: How Nonprofit Learning and Development Leaders Can Use Play to Create Organizational Change with Acey Holmes
▶️ Episode 07: Do THIS and You Will Never Have a Boring Virtual Training Again with Melissa Dinwiddie
Join the Nonprofit Learning and Development Collective: https://www.skillmastersmarket.com/nonprofit-learning-and-development-collective
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Connect with Karen
LinkedIn: Karen Knight
Website: karenknight.ca
Connect with Heather
Linkedin: Heather Burright
Website: skillmastersmarket.com
Book an interest call with Heather--
Learning for Good is the podcast for nonprofit leaders seeking practical L&D solutions. Hosted by Heather, an experienced consultant, we dive into leadership development, instructional design, change management, and staff management strategies tailored to nonprofit organizations.
Discover how to implement impactful learning solutions, foster belonging, and influence senior leaders. Each episode provides the tools you need to confidently navigate high-level conversations and drive meaningful change within your organization.
Let’s create lasting impact through innovative L&D solutions!
Produced by Ideablossoms - Visa fler
