Training
Workshops
The workshops are designed to improve the participant’s knowledge, skills and abilities about organization, personal effectiveness, finding solutions to specific problems and learning how to capture opportunities. We will help the participants build skills to start-up, strengthen and sustain all facets of their nonprofit organization and operation.
The framework for the workshops is the One Page Business Plan for Nonprofits. This book, software and web service was created by Jim Horan
The One Page Business Plan for Nonprofits helps leaders in nonprofits create a One Page Promise by answering these questions:
What are you building?
Why does this nonprofit exist?
What results will you measure?
How will you build this nonprofit?
What is the work to be done?
The workshops will use lecture, small group discussion, peer-to-peer facilitated discussions brought in by participants and case studies.
The main subjects that will be covered and put into the One Page Promise framework are:
+ Governance and Results
+ Creating a board that uses a governance process and structure that creates an organization that gets its best results.
+ Creating organization and operation processes that get the best results for the agency.
The workshop participants will work in teams corresponding to one of the four stages of the life of a nonprofit organization.
Idea: Nonprofit entrepreneurs thinking of starting a nonprofit.
Startup: Nonprofit entrepreneurs and their volunteer leaders starting up a nonprofit.
Growth: Nonprofit entrepreneurs and their volunteer leaders building a nonprofit.
Stagnation/Decline: Nonprofit entrepreneurs, their volunteer leaders and staff of small mature nonprofits with problems and issues.
These workshops can come in many different packages and forms. When the workshop is being offered as an Adult Education Course at a community college it will usually be one night a week for four weeks. The other ways to deliver these workshops could be two to four sessions over a weekend, one session a night over a week long period or once a week for a couple weeks.
Yay Team! has workshops currently being sponsored by two community colleges in the Minneapolis/St Paul urban area.
Custom Training
Custom Training is a unique one to one process that uses a hands on approach to train someone in the knowledge, skills and abilities of a successful nonprofit organization.
