Gain a new vision for managing volunteers in a world where most people have many choices for how they use their time. Understand volunteer motivation and recruitment to reach the volunteers you want to engage. Create a checklist for volunteer recruitment including the best ways to evaluate volunteer talents and skills for effectiveness. Discuss key steps to avoid frustration and burnout in your volunteer corps. Discover how thoughtful and active volunteer management practices will produce better service to the community.

Implicit Bias can influence decisions at every stage in the hiring process. During this workshop you will learn what implicit bias is, and how to identify it as it comes up in hiring. In breaking down each stage of the hiring process in this class, you will learn strategies for infusing equity into the process, including best practices for serving on a screening committee, tools for developing job announcements, strategies for inclusive recruitment, and more. This workshop has a focus on institutionalized hiring and retention practices that challenge systems of power, privilege and inequity.

Increase meaning and fulfillment in your life by purposefully designing your life. This hands-on workshop provides a process and exercises to help you identify and plan for changes to your life that align with your values and talents. Learn how the design thinking process used by product designers and innovators can be leveraged to intentionally plan and build an authentic life. Take away the process to map out potential life paths, assess options, and solicit feedback and support.

You've gathered the tools now put them into action! This hands-on workshop provides a process to help you identify and plan steps to actualize your life or career consistent with your values and talents. Learn how the design thinking process used by product designers and innovators can be leveraged to intentionally create an authentic life. Build your own plan to help map your way to an Authentic Life!