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We’re coming into some hard times. We don’t yet know how hard they’re going to be, but we’re all starting to prepare for them. We’re looking critically at our budgets and wondering what we can do without. We’re asking ourselves what we do best and how we can focus on our core competencies. Although most of us lack a coherent method for doing this kind of work, we fumble our way through it. Fascinatingly, looking at your organization through the lens of information and communication mapping, with an eye toward technology-based savings, can be a powerful and liberating approach. In this 90 minute seminar, we will teach you to:
- audit your organizational processes for ICT-based savings opportunities
- map out core organizational and staff strengths, so that they are preserved and enhanced
- use a neutral methodology that reduces the feeling of arbitrariness in budget adjustments
- identify and apply typical patterns of ICT-based savings in your organization
- identify innovations that might actually be easier to adopt in hard times
- free up time and money without sacrificing organizational capacity or mission
Are you anticipating having to trim budgets in the coming year? Would you rather do that in a way that builds capacity rather than erodes it? Would you like to free up resources while actually pursuing your mission more effectively? If so, then you may wish to join us for this seminar.
Here is a related article by Michael Gilbert:
This seminar is taught by Michael C. Gilbert, the author of Communication Centered Technology Planning, 2nd Edition, and a long time coach and consultant on matters related to information and effectiveness in work and civil society. Michael has helped over 1000 organizations build their communication resources, has conducted over two dozen studies of nonprofit communication practices, and is the Editor of the Journal of Networks and Civil Society. He is also the Editor of Nonprofit News, the sponsor and organizer of the Gilbert Authors Network, and the Founding President of the Nonprofit Technology Network. For more information about Mr. Gilbert, please see his bio.
Our pre-packaged online seminar here consists of a 90 minute session.
Live Online Seminars: These are presented at a scheduled date & time, broadcast live, and include live Q&A time with the instructor. Live online seminars presented by The Gilbert Center are open registration seminars, which means that anyone can attend. You can read the technical requirements and other basic facts for live online seminars.
On-Demand Online Seminars: On-demand means you can attend at a time that is most convenient for your schedule. Each one consists of the recording of the most recent live presentation for you to watch, and comes packaged with a phone consultation with the instructor so you can ask questions about the seminar materials and how they can best be put to use in your particular situation. You can also read technical requirements and other basic facts for on-demand seminars. The list of seminars available on-demand is listed down the right-hand side of that same page.
Private Sessions: If you have a group of people to whom you would like to offer training, please consider our private packages. You can hire us to present any of the seminars listed on this site, or custom sessions, for your group privately; online or in person at your location. Read example package outlines here. Please contact us with any questions you have, or to discuss scheduling a seminar for your group.
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