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Your Digital Training Modules
Get on demand access to all current and future modules. As a foundation member, you can input into which topics go live next and contribute to shaping the content you need most. This is an exclusive online academy, tailored around you and your needs as a community leader.
Ideas to Action
A workshop, made up of 9 lessons, that walk you through the steps to flesh out your idea and take action towards bringing it to life in your community. Utilising a practical step by step approach you will complete this module having developed a strong foundational plan and taking the first steps towards actioning your plan.
Strategic Planning Workshop
This is my step by step Strategic Planning workshop that I deliver live to clients. Follow along and create a full strategic plan comprising of your organisational overview and a tangible action plan that will guide your organisation through the coming 1-5 years.
Partnerships and Collaboration
Rarely do community organisations achieve success in isolation. Developing strong partnerships and collaborating with others is key to flourishing in your community. Learn the critical components in this module.
Marketing, Communications and Promotion
This module covers the core communications skills as well as lessons on storytelling, social media and how to get meaningful exposure for your initiatives.
Governance 101
This module takes you through the basics of governance and what you need to know before joining a committee or board. It also provides a glossary of governance terms, information for running your AGM, meetings and taking minutes.
Group Dynamics, Facilitation and Great Meetings
After facilitating groups for 20 years, this module brings together the key practices and skills to successfully transform your meetings and groupwork
Your Volunteer Recruitment Game Plan
Featuring the highly regarded 5A Model of Volunteer Recruitment, this is my most requested training session of the past 10 years. Delivered in more than 100 organisations with huge success, my volunteer recruitment training is included as a bonus module for all academy members.
Technology Tool Box
Fast tracked due to demand of the current climate, this tech tool box module will give you tutorials on utilising free (or cheap) digital programs that will super charge your organisation and help to operate more efficiently in the digital world.
Wellbeing and Self care
The community sector has an extraordinarily high rate of burnout, in both our staff and volunteers. As a trained yoga teacher, a lifetime student of self development and a previous survivor of career burnout in the NFP sector, this is the toolbox I wished I'd had when I begun a life of activism, volunteerism and community leadership.
Fundraising
You have a big mission and now you need to fund it. In this module we look into the vast array of fundraising methods and step you through how to choose which ones are right for your organisation and we peek into the importance of diversifying your funding sources in order to give your organisation stability and long term planning options.
