Target Audience
New Board Members, Directors, Charity Trustees of non-profit organisations.
Outline
A comprehensive induction is an important first step in ensuring that new Board Members, Directors and Charity Trustees have the understanding needed to carry out their roles, responsibilities and obligations effectively. This workshop aims to form part of that induction process.
Below is an outline of the topics covered:
- Governance Overview
- Board Members’ Roles and Responsibilities
- The Chairperson
- Board Relationship with CEO/Staff
- Company Limited by Guarantee – Directors
- Charity – Charity Trustees
- What more to expect from a Board Induction
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
- Board Members
- Executive | Senior Management Team
- Non-profit Leadership
Calling all organisation leadership from frontline leaders to board level leadership. Are you living your Mission, Vision And Values within your organisation? Maybe you are about to embark on your next 3-5 Year organisation strategic plan? Well join us for our Living Your Mission, Vision And Values Workshop to find out how to ensure “your words and deeds match in practice”.
Outline
This session is a interactive workshop that explores practical ways to ensure how you can develop genuine, authentic and sustainable set of Mission, Vision And Values. So often our Mission, Vision And Values become a tick box exercise as part of a strategic plan, a lip service exercise that ends up as plaque on a wall, words on a plan or website; But the words and deeds don’t match the experience in practice. Sound familiar???
Well if you would like to design a “quality culture” where genuinely “the words & deeds match in practice” and how you can “Leave A Legacy” join us to find out what strategies you need to build or re-set the foundations needed to provide a quality experience and culture for your service users and your workforce.
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
Anyone wishing to pick up some productivity tips in the use of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook. Prior knowledge of Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365 is essential.
Outline
In this course you will learn productivity tips from the following Microsoft programs:
Outlook
- Scheduling emails in advance
- How to ignore irrelevant email chains
- Cleaning up your inbox
- Creating simple rules
- Using quick parts
Word
- Working with styles
- Contents pages
- Page breaks
- Cover pages
- Watermarks
- Collaborate on a document
Excel
- Cleaning data
- Separating text from within a cell
- Managing your data using grouping
- Locking cells
- Displaying data visually
PowerPoint
- Using slides from another presentation
- Changing fonts throughout the entire presentation
- Working with images and shapes
- Colour considerations
- Using the presenter view
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom. This session will be recorded and the recording will be circulated to participants on completion.
Target Audience
New Board Members, Directors, Charity Trustees of non-profit organisations.
Outline
A comprehensive induction is an important first step in ensuring that new Board Members, Directors and Charity Trustees have the understanding needed to carry out their roles, responsibilities and obligations effectively. This workshop aims to form part of that induction process.
Below is an outline of the topics covered:
- Governance Overview
- Board Members’ Roles and Responsibilities
- The Chairperson
- Board Relationship with CEO/Staff
- Company Limited by Guarantee – Directors
- Charity – Charity Trustees
- What more to expect from a Board Induction
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
All people working in the non-profit sector.
Outline
How do you move from launching your strategic plan to ensuring effective implementation? This workshop will bring a mix of theory, best practice and practical steps on how to implement. You don’t have to have a shiny strategic plan to attend – this workshop will support people interested in how to turn words into positive outcomes.
This workshop will break down the steps to implement your organisation’s strategic plan effectively. Participants will be given best practice examples to illustrate how each implementation step can be approached. Participants can, if they wish, bring their Strategic Plan with them to use for group work.
This workshop introduces essential internal planning and reporting framework that will help align your work and your organisation’s work with its strategic goals. Applicable to all levels in an organisation i.e., anyone who is passionate about maximising their productivity and focusing their work will have something to gain by coming along.
Methodology
In person, Carmichael Centre, Dublin 7.
Target Audience
Anyone involved in advocacy or looking to influence policy or legislation in an area of work relevant to their non-profit organisation.
Outline
Ever wondered how can our organisation secure a legislative or policy win? This workshop has been developed to share an insider-outsider perspective on how to succeed in influencing policy or legislative change for your organisation. The workshop will inform and provide a practical roadmap.
The workshop is led by Jillian van Turnhout who is a former independent Senator who, in her five years, was successful and recognised by both TV3 and the Irish Times as ‘Senator of the Year’. In addition, Jillian is a former Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance and, in this role, spent seven years successfully advocating for policy and legislative change. Before her time in the Seanad, Jillian worked and volunteered on many successful campaigns. Since her time in the Seanad, Jillian has successfully influenced legislative changes in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.
Overview of workshop
Part 1: Understanding – knowledge building
- The Oireachtas
- The legislative calendar and process
- Seanad Commencement Matters and Dáil Topical Issues
- Parliamentary Questions
- Tips on how to inform and influence TDs and Senators
Part 2: Influencing – how to effect change
- Defining your issue and policy/legislative solution
- Setting goals and objectives
- Identify the target audience and who to influence
- Stakeholder mapping and building partnerships/alliances
- Creating effective communications
Ending: Questions and Answers – draw on Jillian’s expertise for your organisations’ campaign
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
Participants should have either completed the Intermediate course and/or be familiar with the following material from experience:
- Be comfortable with the basic functions of Excel: basic formulas and functions, creating a chart, sorting and filtering, printing and working across worksheets.
- How to create a vlookup()
- How to create a pivot table
- How to create an If() function
- How to do basic conditional formatting
This knowledge will be assumed and will not be covered in this course.
Outline
The course will take place on Zoom over 4 sessions as per details below. Homework will be assigned between sessions. Resources and links will be stored on a platform called GiraffePad. Please note these sessions will be recorded and recordings will be sent to attendees only. Full instructions and links will be given after registration.
Session One (90 minutes) Thurs 9th Nov starting at 2.30pm
Pivot Tables beyond the basics – learn how to use pivot tables even more effectively:
- Learn how to combine datasets without the use of a vlookup or index/match.
- Learn how to use the GetPivotData() function to extract information from a pivot table to use elsewhere.
- Introduction to PowerPivot to create more complex calculations that currently feasible in standard pivot tables.
Session Two (90 minutes) Thurs 16th Nov starting at 2.30pm
Automate your work:
- Introduction to Macros.
- Learn to create more complex formulas e.g. nested ifs, index/match
Session Three (90 minutes) Thurs 23rd Nov starting at 2.30pm
Automate data cleaning with Power Query:
- For regular data cleansing tasks – set them up in Power Query – do them once and that’s it. Speed up those tedious data cleansing tasks.
Session Four (90 minutes) Thurs 30th Nov starting at 2.30pm
Visualising your data with Dashboards:
- Present your data in a more user friendly way by summarizing it in an interactive dashboard.
Methodology
- Delivered virtually via Zoom.
- GiraffePad will be the platform used to hold the Zoom links/training materials/recordings.
- Homework will be assigned between sessions.
Target Audience
Managers and Board Members responsible for Data Protection.
Outline
This interactive workshop will provide the participant with an easy to understand background on the GDPR as well as comprehending their organisation’s obligations under the legislation.
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Google Meet. A copy of the slides and some guidance documents will be provided.
Target Audience
Anyone presenting with PowerPoint who wants to display data visually.
Pre-requisites: Prior knowledge of PowerPoint to a basic level is essential.
Outline
Learn to create graphs and charts that effectively display your data. The session will cover the following;
- Appropriate visualisation for different data types
- Design Principles for effective data visualisation
- Common mistakes to avoid
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
Middle and Senior Managers, Board Members.
Outline
A strategy is about how an organisation best positions itself whilst remaining relevant. A good strategy is clear and succinct. It boldly sets out your organisation’s ambitions, sets a clear focus aimed at achieving your mission, and it is embedded in reality.
This Strategic Planning workshop will guide you through core elements of strategy: challenge, cohesion and commitment. It will look at approaches and models in conducting strategic analysis, examining options, building in agility and how to monitor implementation.
Step-by-step, you will learn what a strategic planning process involves, what tools and techniques can help you along the way, what the end result should look like, and how to get everyone on board.
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
