Cultivate Training Courses
Spring Training from Cultivate
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Big Picture - training to develop your organisation holistically - Wed 26 March
The Big Picture is an organisational development framework. It has been designed to help you think about every aspect of your organisation and it's work and take action to improve it.
This training aims to help not for profit organisations improve what they do. The day will offer you a chance to think about the bigger picture (the whole organisation) and look at what you do, where you need to go and plan how you are going to achieve your goals. The training will give you tools to guide your organisation's direction, stakeholders (staff, volunteers, funders, partners etc) and processes (managing people, money, resources etc) and strategic outcomes, standards and development.
The training will be delivered by Sheila Fraser, a freelance consultant and a training deliverer for Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations.
The Big Picture can be useful for a number of different reasons:
- as a framework to assess your organisation to focus scant resources on areas of work that will have the biggest impact in the shortest time:
- to induct staff to quality improvement issues
- to check your progress against your plans
- as a format for writing funding applications
- to address areas of tension or conflict
- to motivate people within your organisation and involve stakeholders
- to improve how you develop strategic or business plans
- to set up or review monitoring systems
- to conduct training needs analysis
- to identify gaps for development
The training day costs £35 including lunch and refreshments. Time: 10am-4.30pm. Venue: Cultivate meeting room, Nottingham. For booking information please see below.
TEATIME TALK: Risky Business - Thursday 10 April - 3pm-5pm at LBC Depot, Leicester
Risk analysis management has become of greater importance in the creative and cultural sector, mainly to an increasing level of accountability to funders and other stakeholders, as well as an increasing professionalism in the management of that sector. This short seminar is aimed at those involved in the design, implementation and use of performance management systems.
Seminar contents:
- Risk management objectives and goals
- Understanding and analysing the “operating” environment
- Identifying and ranking risks
- Evaluation of risks
- Monitoring and reporting framework
- Scenario planning
The seminar is designed to be interactive and will present a theoretical framework with a practical overlay. At the end of this session delegates will have an understanding and appreciation of risk and be able to develop and implement a risk management policy.
The training will be led by Mahmood Reza, who is a qualified and experienced accountant, trainer and writer who runs his own accountancy, training and management service business. His skills and experiences have been developed within the cultural, commercial and public sector over the last twenty five years.
Mahmood has been actively involved in the creative and cultural sector for over twenty years – ranging from board membership, working within the sector and a growing client base. He also teaches at Aston Business School, is a course director for a London based management college and has done training and consultancy work overseas in Russia, Cuba and East Africa.
The Teatime Talk is FREE, but you need to book a place. See below for information on how to book.
TEATIME TALK Volunteer Training and Recruitment - Recruit, Retain and Recognise, 30th April 2008
From 3:00pm - 5:00pm, Friar Gate Studios, Derby
This seminar will help you look at ways of recruiting volunteers, look at ways of retaining and rewarding your volunteers, as well as practical issues such as volunteer agreements.
The session will be lead by Steve McEachran, Deputy House Manager at The Lowry in Salford who runs an exemplary volunteer scheme. Steve will cover best practice, recruitment, volunteering and the law and managing volunteers. There will also be a chance to hear directly from one of their volunteers to get an understanding of their motivations, experience and practical side of being a volunteer.
Please note this seminar will now be free as part of our Tea Time Talk programme but places must be booked beforehand. Please email info@cultivate-em.com for booking form.
More Details
To book for any of these events, visit www.cultivate-em.org.uk/events or email info@cultivate-em.com
last updated: 18-03-2008 09:41