Professional development

Excel essentials – level up your skills

Excel is an incredibly useful tool to help you store, analyse and present your data. Even with basic skills there’s a lot you can do to help with your organisation’s monitoring and evaluation practice - but how do you get started? 

Join this practical session from Charity Digital to navigate the Excel ribbon and create, format, sort and filter your spreadsheets. We’ll introduce basic auto and manual formulae and why you should be using Tables. We’ll also cover splitting and joining columns and inserting basic charts.

Online

Atkinson HR: Creating an Inclusive Workplace

Creating inclusive workplaces starts with understanding the fundamentals. This session will help you build your capability in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion by exploring essential EDI concepts and terminology that underpin safe, respectful, and equitable work environments. You'll gain clarity on key principles, develop a shared language for discussing EDI topics with confidence, and understand how these concepts translate into everyday practices and decisions.

Online

Influencing and Connecting Group for Voluntary Sector Leaders of organisations supporting prison/probation experienced people

Are you a leader of a Greater Manchester VCSFE organisation supporting prison and probation experienced people? Are you interested in collaborating with other leaders to connect, influence and improve outcomes and impact?

Clinks are hosting a pilot influencing group to gauge interest and explore the potential aims and outcomes of the group. This idea came about from a project with prison experienced adults, that highlighted systemic challenges, and lack of connectivity between sector organisations.

Co-operative Bank, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M4 4BE
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Network for Black Women Leaders Elevate Session: Being Influential Without a Title

Leadership does not always begin with a title.

Many Black women are already shaping decisions, creating change and influencing outcomes long before they are formally recognised as leaders. But in workplaces, organisations and communities where authority is often tied to position, it can be easy to overlook the influence we already have.

In this practical and reflective Network for Black Women Leaders Elevate Session*, founder and UK representative for Synergy DMC, Chantal Potgieter will explore how influence actually works, and how Black women can lead from where they are.

Online

Community Matters: Safeguarding for Trustees and Community Buildings

This session will look at the legislation, and what trustees need to know and do. It will also look at how best to apply it in a community building setting where you may be hiring space but have little direct interaction with the vulnerable people attending the activities.

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