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meeting preparation and running.
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We think everyone can benefit from finding ways to hold better meetings, more complete conversations and relate to each other in more loving ways.
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Better Meetings courses include:
- Improving relationships
- Creating clarity for mission and purpose
- Quaker Business Method
- Administrative tips
- Technical advice
- and more!
Courses
- Administration, Better Meetings, Charity Admin, Clerk, Fundraising, Governance, Governance and Compliance, Health and Safety, HR, IT and Digital, Leadership and Management, Legal, Managing Property, Marketing & PR, Money, Property, Quakers, Technical Advice, Trustee, Volunteer
FREE Resource Library
Welcome to the FREE resource library. Here you can download useful tools, resources and templates to support you in your charity role. Add the library to your shopping basket, it is completely FREE so when you check out you will only be prompted to set up your personal MBS:C dashboard, no payment is required. Once you have completed the set-up the resource library is saved to your account so that you can access it as many times as you would like.
£0.00
- Administration, Better Meetings, Clerk, First 5, Governance, Governance and Compliance, Health and Safety, IT and Digital, Managing Property, Property, Trustee
Creating Calendar Reminders and Scheduling
This First5 course explores how to utilise a calendar as a planning and scheduling tool. It provides an overview of how to create your entry, what to add and how to share information with the wider group.
£0.00
- Administration, Better Meetings, Clerk, Governance and Compliance, IT and Digital, Managing Property, Property, Thinking About, Trustee
Thinking About: Creating Corporate Memory
This Thinking About course explores how to create ‘Corporate Memory’ for your organisation. We explore how your organisation can prevent memory loss and how to effectively implement processes and policies to deal with changing groups of volunteers and role-holders.
£75.00
- Administration, Better Meetings, Clerk, Fundraising, HR, Leadership and Management, Managing Property, Quakers, Trustee, Volunteer
First5: Improving Relationships
This First5 course is an introduction to improving relationships & holding better meetings. It is primarily for those who work alongside others, in teams or manage other people. There are five questions to get you thinking.Â
£0.00
- Administration, Better Meetings, Clerk, HR, Leadership and Management, Quakers
First5: Quaker Clerking
This First5 course explains the Quaker Business Method and why it is useful to use its principles when clerking.
£0.00
- Administration, Better Meetings, Clerk, Employee, Fundraising, HR, Managing Property, Quakers, Trustee, Volunteer
Thinking About: Managing Relationships
Communication is a key aspect of improving interpersonal relationships. It is also an element that is taken for granted. There is an assumption that if you share a common language with another person then communication should be easy. That is rarely the case. This Thinking About course explores in greater detail how to effectively improve and manage relationships.
£75.00
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