Workplace Learning
The best nonprofits are constantly learning.
The most impactful nonprofits actively drive toward being learning organizations. Our work with hundreds of nonprofit organizations over the years has afforded us with a rich repository of best practices and compliance strategies that we believe can help you as you manage and lead your organization’s people function or augment your nonprofit’s existing training program. Whether you want to explore new ways to hone your leadership style or learn critical skills for giving and receiving feedback, we have a learning opportunity for you.
Whether in-house or online, Nonprofit HR offers a diverse range of on-demand or customized training sessions for your entire organization. From harassment prevention to leadership development, we’ve delivered it all.
Browse workplace learning experiences below to find the best fit for your organization’s needs.
On-Demand Learning (Coming Soon)
Have an immediate training need? Explore our options for online, on-demand learning that you can deploy across your organization today.
Collaborative and Strategic Thinking for HR
Strategic and operational focus, people and process are the cornerstones to any strategic business partnership. Attend this session and develop an approach to align strategy to structure and performance; think collaboratively and build a partnership that will influence change.
Creating a Nonprofit Compensation Plan
What is your organization’s philosophy on compensation? Does it reflect the culture of your nonprofit? In this course, you’ll explore the elements of an effective compensation plan, outline the key steps to accurate market analysis and benchmarking and create a strategy to develop and implement a new plan.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
As many leaders know, the old adage is true: “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.” In this course, you’ll learn to manage challenging interactions by exploring the fundamentals of giving and receiving feedback.
Managing for Mutual Success
Today’s leaders are responsible for more work, more resources and bigger teams. In this session, emerging supervisors can explore leadership styles and how to achieve success by understanding and leveraging their influence.
The Challenges of Managing People
Challenges in the workplace are unavoidable, but the way they’re handled by supervisors is critical to organizational health. This session teaches new and emerging leaders to cultivate the skills necessary to manage people effectively.
The Challenges of Managing People
The Nonprofit Trends Survey is a national survey of leading nonprofit organizations produced annually by Nonprofit HR. It focuses on four key areas: staff size and projected growth, recruitment strategies and budgeting, staffing challenges and staffing resource management. This session uncovers key findings, outlines what they mean for your organization and explores the role HR can play to overcome those barriers.
Training: Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
In this course, we’ll discuss what constitutes sexual harassment and common themes that surface in the workplace. You’ll identify ways to bolster your organization’s prevention policy, discover what is required of supervisors to comply and explore ways to address harassment through situational learning.
Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector
Nonprofits represent 6.2% of our nation’s economy and employ 11.7 million people. The sector is experiencing explosive growth and will need to attract 2.4 times the number of people currently employed to meet increasing demand, so there is sure to be an opportunity for you. Find out how to align your interests, experience and energy with a worthwhile mission that matters.
Recruiting & Interviewing – Hiring the Right Talent to Move the Mission Forward
Integrity, intelligence, ambition and energy. We know you want all that and more in your next hire. The process of identifying and selecting top talent is critical to your organization’s success. Explore tools, strategies and recent trends on the leading edge of first class recruitment.
Nonprofit HR Metrics for Organizational Strategy and Planning
Think metrics only matter to technology and accounting? Think again. Metrics may be more important to your HR than any other function at your organization. Learn why metrics matter, uncover common pitfalls and best practices, and become the master of driving change through data.
HR 101: Fundamentals for Non-HR Professionals
If your organization is like most, labor is one of your biggest costs, yet human resources planning and implementation often gets put on the backburner. Learn how to master the fundamental components of HR and build a solid strategy that will take your HR from part-time to prime time.
Leveraging Employee Engagement for Organizational Success
Innovative workplace cultures are fluid, empowering and engagement-focused. Explore tips on measuring engagement, the costs and pitfalls associated with disengagement and strategies to pull people back into the mission.
The Engagement Effect: Leadership, Influence and Social Style
Learn what it means to lead by identifying key leadership competencies and exploring power versus influence and your own social style.
Equal Opportunity and Veterans Reporting
Race, gender, veteran status. Learn how the size of your organization or your talent’s status as a contractor or sub-contractor impact your compliance requirements.
Customized Learning
We’ll get to know your organization’s culture and needs to develop a tailored learning experience specifically for you.
Browse our on-demand learning topics (above) and select the sessions that appeal to you and your staff. Each course can be delivered to a team of 10 to 100, approached from a high level with a one-hour session, covered in-depth over the span of an entire day, or anything in between.
Fill out the form below to begin designing your custom learning experience or learn more about Nonprofit HR training. You can combine any number of the training sessions we offer in a way that suits your needs. Someone from our team will be in touch shortly to finalize the details.
Please note: Nonprofit HR does not provide customized learning sessions for individuals, only organizations.
Live Learning
Visit our Events page to learn more about live learning opportunities through our webinars on timely topics crucial to nonprofit talent and HR professionals.
If there is a topic you’re eager to learn more about, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We understand the demand for progress and positive impact within the social sector is more pressing now than ever, so we’ll make every effort to cultivate workplace learning sessions based on your needs and recommendations.
REALITIES: A DEI Education Series by Nonprofit HR
The 2020 Nonprofit Talent Management Priorities Survey revealed that 45% of respondents are prioritizing “attracting and hiring diverse talent” this year, across all demographics including race. But what will social-impact organizations need to look like to the “woke” jobseeker? And, will nonprofits be able to reflect the cultures of diversity, equity and inclusion that candidates are seeking when evaluating where to lend their time and talents?
Register now for this discussion and hear:
- What other organizations are doing to attract and hire high-performers of diverse backgrounds
- How you “show up” as a welcoming and inclusive employer
- How to identify and address racial bias in your screening, interviewing, hiring and onboarding practices
- How to effectively communicate your organization’s DEI culture throughout the hiring process
Speaker details coming soon.
Access resources, stories and tools to support your DEI journey to a more inclusive workforce!
REALITIES: A DEI Education Series by Nonprofit HR
When was your organization’s last compensation review, and was it reactionary or a strategically developed to create a more equitable workforce? The 2019 Diversity Practices Survey revealed that only 16% of respondents track pay gaps through the lenses of equity and diversity. Additionally, only 9% said their organizations changed their total rewards practices to realize greater diversity. Today’s digitally-savvy, vocally-empowered employees have many tools at their disposal to publicly share their career experiences and to benchmark how they are compensated and rewarded. Nonprofits are not immune to having their brand criticized for failing to offer fair and equitable compensation.
Sign up now and understand:
- Where your organization’s total rewards program falls along the equity spectrum
- How to identify and address compensation and benefits inequities through race and gender
- How to evaluate whether or not your total rewards practices are undermining your diversity objectives
Speaker details coming soon.
About this webinar series: Nonprofit HR’s REALITIES webinar series topics are driven by priorities which nonprofits have reported to us, and cover everything from workforce development, recruitment, talent attraction and recruitment, workplace culture and beyond. Each session will be addressed through the lens of race and will incorporate facets of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices in talent management.
Access resources, stories and tools to support your DEI journey to a more inclusive workforce!
REALITIES: A DEI Education Series by Nonprofit HR
How high on the scale would your employees rank their sense of belonging in your organization? It is not enough to assume that your employees feel connected and like they belong at work. The third-highest driver for voluntary turnover in organizations, 26.2%, was dissatisfaction and disengagement with current organizational culture according to Nonprofit HR’s 2019 Retention Practices Survey. Belonging is linked to increased job performance and can strengthen employee engagement. Understanding the extent to which your diverse staff feels a part of the culture is an important data set to understand.
Sign up now and hear:
- How to identify and address employee engagement differences based on employee demographic makeup
- New ways that employees may expect to influence, engage and be heard in the workplace
- How to create meaningful employee engagement practices aimed at fostering belonging
Register now!
About this webinar series: Nonprofit HR’s REALITIES webinar series topics are driven by priorities which nonprofits have reported to us, and cover everything from workforce development, recruitment, talent attraction and recruitment, workplace culture and beyond. Each session will be addressed through the lens of race and will incorporate facets of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices in talent management.
Access resources, stories and tools to support your DEI journey to a more inclusive workforce!
REALITIES: A DEI Education Series by Nonprofit HR
Are your leaders truly ready to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce? Closely examining how your leaders manage your workplace culture can have a critical impact on your success. The 2019 Nonprofit Talent Retention Practices Survey revealed that 21% of respondents prematurely left organizations due to dissatisfaction/disengagement with current leadership. From recent headlines, it is clear that employees are seeking more outlets to voice their perspectives. What’s also clear is that employees of all backgrounds are holding organizations and their leaders accountable for living the values they preach.
Sign up now and explore ways to:
- Ways to initiate courageous conversations about DEI with out-of-touch leaders
- Determine if your organization’s culture is being experienced differently based on age, gender, race and other differences
- How to internally and externally highlight and celebrate your leaders’ wins for building and sustaining a healthy, engaged and mission-driven culture
Speaker details coming soon.
About this webinar series: Nonprofit HR’s REALITIES webinar series topics are driven by priorities which nonprofits have reported to us, and cover everything from workforce development, recruitment, talent attraction and recruitment, workplace culture and beyond. Each session will be addressed through the lens of race and will incorporate facets of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices in talent management.
Access resources, stories and tools to support your DEI journey to a more inclusive workforce!
Get in Touch
If there is a topic you’re eager to learn more about, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We understand the demand for progress and positive impact within the social sector is more pressing now than ever, so we’ll make every effort to cultivate workplace learning sessions based on your needs and recommendations.
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