CSCCE hosts monthly community calls and weekly social hours as part of the programming for our community of practice. This calendar additionally shows one-off events and online trainings offered by the center.
Please join us to learn more about the spring 2024 cohort of the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program (CERT24Sp). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82458606246?pwd=VVRUNkViK1AvYkJUb3FHYXhUNGVUQT09
Many culture change projects are met with general enthusiasm at the conceptual level, but fall short during their implementation. In this Mini-workshop, participants will reflect on their own role as change agents and use Bolman and Deal’s Four-Frame Model to assess and describe different types of barriers to culture change initiatives (structural, human resources, political, … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Enacting culture change: The Four-Frame Model"
Please join us to learn more about the spring 2024 cohort of the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program (CERT24Sp). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82458606246?pwd=VVRUNkViK1AvYkJUb3FHYXhUNGVUQT09
In this first of a two part series of two-hour workshops, participants will explore dimensions of team readiness for large, multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives and how a team readiness assessment can be used to identify the stage of their project and which areas they need to address as a priority. By the end of this workshop, … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Preparing for large-scale collaborations"
Creating Community Playbooks - Winter 2023 (PBK24W) Playbooks are written hubs that keep your community members, community champions or community team on the same page by making visible the who, what, why, when, where, and how of your shared work together. In this workshop-style, multi-week course, we’ll talk about the different contexts in which playbooks … Continue reading "PBK24W"
Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals - Winter 2024 (CEF24W) This eight-week course is designed to offer new and existing community managers a core set of actionable skills and strategies. Participants meet twice a week, with lecture-style content interspersed with discussion and project work. More information: https://www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/ Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scientific-community-engagement-fundamentals-cef24w-tickets-742454279737
Prerequisite: Preparing for large-scale collaborations (Part 1) In this second workshop of a two part series, participants will debrief the team readiness surveys they drafted in workshop one. They will explore how to deploy the survey and how to report the results back to the community and determine next steps. Then, using a framework describing … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Designing for large-scale collaborations"
Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This quarter, our speakers will be talking about navigating community … Continue reading "QSS Session: Navigating community management in a large, complex organization"
Community managers are often trying to create spaces that support group learning and self-expression to build something members of the community couldn’t create alone – and this almost always includes incorporating volunteer contributions. In this Mini-workshop, we’ll explore common community manager concerns related to working with volunteers. We’ll discuss how to flip the narrative from … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Working with volunteers"
In this workshop-style, multi-week course, we discuss the different contexts in which community playbooks are useful and the different strategies for creating and maintaining them. Participants use CSCCE’s playbook framework and custom templates to create a “lite” playbook, and plan for socializing the playbook with their community members. Our summer offering of Creating Community Playbooks … Continue reading "Creating Community Playbooks (PBK24S)"
With virtual work increasingly the norm, community managers are often tasked with convening and facilitating virtual meetings. In this Mini-workshop, you will discuss the opportunities and challenges of virtual meetings and explore the “Making a PACT” framework (Purpose, Attendees, Community management, Tech tools) for effective meeting design. You will apply the framework directly to example scenarios so that … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Making a PACT for engaging virtual meetings and events"
Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This quarter, our speakers will be talking about tactics … Continue reading "CSCCE QSS Session | Coordinating connections: how do we tactically strengthen relationships and strategic partnerships?"