Workshop series

Suites of targeted workshops to build your skills

What are your goals for your projects and programs?

How do you decide which programs make sense for your mission and resources? How do you decide if each program is doing what it needs to do? How do you grow your programs to better serve your community, or develop new programs to respond to emergent needs?

To do this work well, you need to know how to evaluate the impact of your programs and discover the needs of your community. You need to know how to design robust projects that iterate and scale. You need to be conversant in budget proposals, one-pagers, and logistics. You need to translate effectively between high-level strategy and on-the-ground logistics. Each program needs its own care, and your portfolio of programs needs collective care.

You already know how to do some of this, but you could be more effective. You need professional growth.

Virtual workshop series

Research is a human endeavor, and humans learn best from other humans. In these intimate, focused workshops:

  • We focus on your needs and growth, so that you can build your skills to better serve your institution’s mission and progress in your career.
  • We ground our work in yours: improving the projects and programs that are already part of your portfolio.
  • We build community capacity: enrollment is capped at 6 participants so that everyone can meaningfully contribute.
  • We meet virtually for four weeks: these workshop series are for working professionals to engage in this work adjacent to their day jobs.

What you get

Each series is composed of four workshops. Each workshop is 90 minutes. In each workshop, you’ll do a blend of activities to learn a topic, practice with your own programs, and get nuanced feedback from the workshop leader and participants.

Your homework for each workshop will prepare you to articulate and enact the changes you want to see in your programs. You will receive a focused workbook and resource guides to shape your thoughts.

In addition to our collective time together, your workshop registration includes a 1:1 design consult before the series so that you can get the most out of your enrollment, and a second 1:1 design consult afterwards to help you with the intricacies of enacting your plan. Participants are invited to weekly office hours during the workshop.

Fall workshop topics

NoteProgram evaluation and growth

These workshops focus on improving your existing projects and programs.

Topics Evaluating programs for impacts, seeking synergies among programs, making sense of evaluation data, program timelines & backwards design
Dates Every week on Tuesdays: October 13, 20, 27; November 3.
Times 1:30-3:00 eastern / 12:30-2:00 central / 11:30-1:00 mountain / 10:30-12:00 pacific
NoteBuilding bigger projects

These workshops focus on building out existing projects and programs as well as developing new ones.

Topics Coherence in design, user needs analysis, budget proposals, one-pagers, talking about DEI
Dates Alternate weeks on Fridays: November 6 & 20; December 4 & 18.
Times 10:00-11:30 eastern / 9:00-10:30 central / 8:00-9:30 mountain / 7:00-8:30 pacific

Because of limited enrollment and focused nature of these workshops, registration is by application only. Email me to express interest.

Additional series

This series focuses on developing your proposal to the NSF IUSE program. Topics include scoping your proposal; coherence, clarity, and compliance; NSF budgets and budget justifications; and facilities plans and mentoring plans.

These workshops focus on developing coherent projects and programs. Topics include Research design, research vs design projects, iteration & emergence, evaluation

These workshops focus on your mentoring skills for undergraduate researchers and interns, as well as how to design projects for success with workforce that centers their growth.

These workshops are aimed at graduate students and senior undergraduates who are embarking on their first substantial research project: a thesis. Topics cover scoping your project, writing your proposal, conducting a literature review, and structuring a project for success.

Could there be others?

Do you need different dates, times, or topics? Inquire about an institutional workshop series will give you what you need on the calendar that works for your people.

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