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Skilled Volunteers: How to Find and Engage Volunteer Talent | May 23/12, 9am - 4pm

Learn how highly skilled and talented volunteers can complement the skill set of paid employees to become a key component of your workforce.

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The BC Society Act: What you don’t know CAN hurt you | Jun 12/12, 9am – 12:30pm

This workshop will focus on understanding the BC Society Act and its impact on your organization’s success.

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Board Basics: Roles and Responsibilities | Jun20/12, 9am - 12pm

This workshop focuses on board members' key responsibilities and provides tools to develop stronger board recruitment, orientation, meeting management, committee structures and evaluation techniques.

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Upcoming Workshops

Attracting and Recruiting the Right People | coming soon

Are you responsible for hiring staff and volunteers with little or no human resource management training? Attracting and recruiting the best-fit employees and volunteers is critical to your organization’s success. In this half day session you will gain skills in developing job advertisements, screening resumes, developing interview questions, and conducting reference checks. Learn how to get the “right” people in your organization who have the skills and interests required to achieve your mission.

Performance Management | coming soon

Managing performance is key to workforce engagement and the effectiveness and productivity of your organization. This half day workshop focuses on practical tools for dealing with performance and development of your people in a proactive manner. This session will provide hands-on tools to set SMART goals for your employees and volunteers, prepare for and conduct effective performance reviews, provide timely and constructive feedback, and have those crucial conversations when someone may no longer fit the role or organization.

Managing Performance Issues | coming soon

Are you faced with employee or volunteer performance management challenges or involuntary termination? By implementing a progressive, corrective discipline process, you encourage your employees and volunteers to become productive to your organization. This workshop will focus on tools to develop or strengthen your discipline and termination policies and procedures. In addition, it will provide you with important information to help you soundly terminate an employee or volunteer.

Strategic Recruiting: Building your Board | coming soon

Recruiting new Board members who are qualified and committed is one of a Board's biggest challenges. Workshop participants will gain tools to: prepare the board for strategic board recruitment; recognize the importance of diversity in building an effective Board; and ensure board succession planning becomes part of the culture in this half-day session. Move beyond recruiting the usual suspects by creating a strategic framework to identify, recruit, and engage the “right” Board members.

Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon | May 16/12 7:30pm - 9:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
The Next Leaders Network is very pleased to partner with Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon for our May event. Join your fellow Next Leaders and other community members for eight short presentations from Vancouver's leaders and thinkers, including the NLN’s very own Aaron Sanderson.

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