Learning & Development in Nonprofit Data & Tech

Description

A great data and tech culture at a mission-driven organization may only be as good as the organization’s overall learning and development culture. That’s because there is exponentially more to learn each day about how to use data and technology for mission and impact. So how can you keep up? How can you keep staff members engaged when they don’t consider themselves “techies?” How do you support and manage data and tech learning even if it isn’t “your thing?” In this course, we’ll answer these questions and more as we dive very, very deep into learning cultures specifically for data and technology in mission-driven work.

The pre-reading for this course will give us a shared language to talk about learning and development within organizations and get us thinking about different approaches and opportunities for learning in general and how to apply those lessons to this topic.

We’ll look at practices in the workplace, including sharing our own experiences. Then we’ll create a matrix to help decide on the most effective and enjoyable learning paths for individual learning styles across your organization.

After the course, you’ll have the opportunity to choose one of the following homework projects:

1. Create a learning and development plan for yourself or an individual on your team.
2. Create a learning and development plan for your entire team.
3. Create a learning and development plan for your entire organization.

Presenters

Emily Beth Hicks-Rotella

Nonprofit Data & Technology Strategist
Make Tech Work For You

Emily's vision statement: All mission-driven, social justice-oriented people and organizations will have the confidence and skills to learn, use and love data & technology as part of achieving their missions.

Emily has over a decade of experience working with organizations of all shapes and sizes to support their data and technology culture and strategy. As part of this work, Emily supports staff members to learn, use, and love their data and technology, adds capacity to teams and organizations that need additional technical knowledge and skill, and uses a uniquely human and non-technical approach to develop and support a culture that sets up staff and organizations for success using data and technology for their missions and impact. Emily lives in the Bronx, New York with their wife and two young children, and when they aren't being a total data and tech nerd, they are either singing outside, snowboarding, skateboarding, reading, or getting more tattoos.