This is a two part course to help senior staff, trustees and directors manage change during COVID-19 and into the new normal.

Part 1 - Managing Change - dealing with the crisis (15 September): All organisations have had to change fast over the last weeks and months. In the process we have changed our operations incredibly fast, a process that has resulted in learning that can help us be more resilient to meet the challenges of the future. This workshop will give you the tools to enable your organisation to capture that learning.

Part 2 - Managing Change – the new normal ( 29 September): What will the future hold after the crisis? What do we imagine the new normal will be? What needs and impact will our organisations respond to? How we apply our learning and understanding of the new landscape will affect our organisations and beneficiaries. This course will focus on future scoping and will give your organisation tools to make strategic decisions for sustainability.

We are offering this as a free course to support the VCSE sector at this time. By booking a place you will have automatically registered for both parts to the course: 15 and 29 September. Each session runs from 9:30am - 12:30pm. We can only accept bookings from those who can commit to both sessions. 

What is this course about?

Part 1: This session will cover tools to recognise and manage change to ensure that new skills and vision, arising from the emergency, can be retained and potential negative issues dealt with effectively. The course will look at what COVID-19 has thrown up and immediate action you may need to take, E.g. addressing loss of income and renegotiating contracts.

Part 2: This session will cover tools to use during the next phase of the emergency to ensure that positive changes can be retained and used to strengthen your organisation.

What will you learn?

Part 1:

• Tools to assess change in your organisation
• Tools to benchmark and assess learning and future opportunities

Part 2:

• Be able to assess changes in needs and impact and service requirements
• Understand how the crisis will impact into the future
• Use business models and theory of change tools to consider impact on business adaption and repurposing.

Who is this course for?

Senior staff and Trustees/Directors

What else do you need to know?

You will need a good overview of your organisation’s operations and finance to take part..

To take part you will need a laptop with a camera, microphone, and Wi-Fi. You will not require any additional software. You will be emailed an invitation with a link to join the online training prior to the course.

Voscur is running all our training online due to the ongoing public health situation with coronavirus (or COVID-19). This decision was taken in line with local and national health advice, and to safeguard the health of our attendees and staff. We are aware that many VCSE organisations in the city are focusing their efforts on providing and changing their services to respond to communities. For more information about coronavirus, see https://www.voscur.org/content/covid19-service-users.

Level: Intermediate

Voscur theme: Leading your organisation

Cancellations:

If you cancel your place on a paid for training course you will need to give at least 2 weeks' notice. Less than 2 weeks' notice will result in the full cost of the course being invoiced unless you can give the place to somebody else.  

If you have been offered a free place, or the training you have booked is a free session: if you do not cancel giving at least 2 weeks' notice and you fail to attend (and are unable to send someone in your place) an admin fee of £25 will be charged.

Voscur reserves the right to withdraw a course at any time. In these circumstances, participants will be offered a full refund or an alternative course or date, if applicable.