Workshop Topics

Strategic Planning and Facilitated Action Plans

If you are looking for spruce up your strategic plan, or get a strategic plan, Charlene has years of experience working with not for profits to develop their strategic direction. Or maybe you have a challenge in your organization that needs some thought and action plans? Charlene can work with groups of any size, working with active group facilitation tools, to help teams come up with consensus and innovative solutions. 

 Interviewing and Screening Volunteers

Are you bored with your current interview and looking for ways to re-energize your screening? Or need tips on creating effective volunteer interviews? Join us for this interactive workshop to explore questions and techniques for interviews.  Using the expertise in the room and some ideas and best practice from across the country, you will leave this workshop re-charged! 

Become the talk of the town: Volunteer/Employee Engagement

From the time a volunteer or employee walks through the door to when they leave us organizations need to have a plan for engagement. Join Charlene’s workshop to explore what volunteers or employees are looking for from their employer and what retention techniques work best. We will discover a load of ideas that will keep volunteers and employees positively talking about your organization for years to come.

Putting the FUN in FUNctional Teams

Great teams are innovative and more productive. Find the ingredients and to create great teams. Be prepared to have fun and participate in a variety of team building activities to bring back to your office. 

Engaging Presentations

Charlene loves to have fun and use humour in her presentations. Join her to find out what is in her presentation toolbox, including PowerPoint, Powtoon, props, virtual collaboration tools, Liberating Structures and other tools to get your audience’s attention. Come prepared to also show off your tools if you have favourites. 

Dreaded Conversations

Have you ever dreaded a conversation with a volunteer or co-worker? Join us for a discussion on techniques and ideas to make those anxious conversations more comfortable. This workshop will guide participants through how personality type can effect our conversations and share tools help prepare for difficult conversations . 

Myers Briggs Type Indicator —MBTI 

Charlene is a certified MBTI practitioner. The MBTI is a personality assessment tool used by corporations around the world to build effective teams. MBTI is based on the personality theories of Psychologist Carl Jung. Jung’s theory is that we all have personality preferences between four different dichotomies. For instance we all have a preference for either extroversion or introversion. Our personalities affect how we "perceive" things, and how we make decisions. Understanding your team’s personalities can help gain insights about how the team interacts with others—and improve how they communicate, learn, and work together to achieve success. MBTI assessments can be done as a team or as an individual.

Personality and Your Volunteer Program 

Just My Type is a fun, revealing card game based on Jung’s theory of personality types. By trading and discussing cards and fashioning a hand that best captures their personality style, players learn about 4 personality dimensions: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perceiving. Using our knowledge about personalities, participants will explore how we can use personality theory to create supportive volunteer programs. 

Volunteer 101

Are you starting a new volunteer program or looking to build an existing program? This workshop is an overview of best practice in Volunteer Management and intended for those new to the field or thinking about managing volunteer programs. The workshop briefly covers the volunteer management cycle from screening through to evaluation. Discover the secrets of successful volunteer programs.

Helping teams through transition and change

Do you love change and innovation and can’t wait to get started? Are you frustrated when others are not as eager to embrace change? Learn how our personalities can affect our ability to embrace change and how to direct our communication efforts to get more people to ride the change train with you.