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This interactive workshop is designed to help new team leaders, supervisors, and managers with essential skills to manage today’s diverse workforce. Participants will learn how to enhance their leadership capabilities and receive “survival skills” information to help them effectively supervise others.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the workshop, participants will learn to:

• Apply at least three strategies for each of the following skills: leadership, assertiveness, and motivation
• Demonstrate five key conflict management skill
• Incorporate four strategies for providing effective feedback

The material will include:

Identifying individual leadership style characteristics

• Discuss and list the characteristics of great leaders and poor leaders
• Self Leadership Style Quiz
• Group discussion

Who should attend:

The ethical principle 'do no harm' should be the foundation for all the work we do as community practitioners and researchers. However, sometimes in our quest for getting 'good data' we forget to put all the safeguards in place to protect the confidentiality, privacy and the vulnerability of community members engaged in research. This workshop will focus on ethical dilemmas commonly presented in community-based research. Case studies of real life examples will be used.

Participants Will Learn:

• how to identify potential ethical "red-flags"
• how to problem-solve different ethical issues commonly presented in CBR
• the importance of "informed consent"
• how to prepare submissions for an "ethics review"

Who Should Attend:

This workshop is designed for those interested in doing quantitative or qualitative interviews for research in a wide variety of research settings. In a fast, complex and changing urban socio-economic environment such as Toronto, there is a growing need among stakeholders, researchers, community members and health professionals to attain information via interviews. We will explore how to design different types of questions, probing techniques and data management.

Participants Will Learn:

• some important definitions related to qualitative and quantitative interviews
• how to design quantitative and qualitative interview guides
• tips for " good " interviewing practices and data management
• interviewing participants with special needs
• internet and computer-assisted interviewing
• other issues and topics in interviewing techniques

Who Should Attend:

Working in urban centers today involves working with members from varied ethnic and racial groups. The continued impact of globalization and immigration ensures that diverse communities will experience increasing levels of contract. This workshop will outline the overall context of CBR in ethnoracial communities

Participants Will Learn:

• Do issues of race, ethnicity and difference impact on the process and outcome of research projects?
• In what way do community building and reciprocal research strategies affect the nature of the research and in turn affect policy guidelines?
• This workshop will examine issues such as these and the overall experience of conducting research with ethnoracial communities.

Who Should Attend:

The workshop will be beneficial to members of organizations working within diverse settings and communities.

Volunteers donate millions of dollars worth of labour to the non-profit sector every year. Many organizations although fully staffed, retain volunteers to help govern and implement programs, as well as perform many roles to help achieve the organization's mission. This workshop is interactive and fun and you will learn about the effective management of volunteers and come away with new ideas and strategies to recruit and retain volunteers.

Participants Will Learn:

As leaders in the non-profit sector we are always scanning our funding environment to find new sources of funding. Do you sometimes wonder why funding opportunities seem to follow the flavour of the month?
Do you wonder why application forms are so detailed and onerous? Do you wonder why funding rules are evolving the way they have?

If so, come to this session with Marilyn Struthers a Program Manager with Ontario Trillium Foundation and think together with other Executive Directors about the complex and systemic issues surrounding funding that face the of the non-profit sector.

Lunch and Learn sessions are restricted to the Executive Directors of Toronto non-profits and are designed to provide an opportunity for networking and to listen to a speaker on a current topic of interest.

About The Speaker:

This workshop is an advanced 'how to' designed for those interested in doing qualitative research from a community-based perspective (focus groups, interviews, participant observation, etc.) Sometimes people think that doing qualitative research is easier than quantitative research, because there are no statistics involved. However, managing qualitative data can be an equally difficult and overwhelming task. We will explore how to design open-ended questions, manage qualitative data, and do collaborative data analysis.

Participants Will Learn:

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