CSCCE’s professional development training courses and Mini-workshops can be delivered privately for your organization, project team, or members of your community, such as grantees or community champions. They’re a great way to develop shared language and mental models together and learn more about one another’s work.
Intended audiences include:
- Program managers from the same organization or related organizations managing community-engaged projects
- Participants in a champions or ambassador program working to launch community-engaged projects
- Grantees working on similar community-engaged projects
Multi-week training courses available as private cohorts
Our highly interactive and practical online trainings contextualize and synthesize decades of research spanning organizational theory to marketing – all while honoring the wisdom that comes from practice and the value of peer support.
The following CSCCE training courses can be delivered as private cohorts:
- An introduction to community engagement – a five part series of Mini-workshops and office hours sessions [one live session per week for five weeks]
- Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals – a full private cohort of our foundational training for community managers in STEM [two live sessions per week for eight weeks]
- Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp – a full private cohort of our popular bootcamp, with the option for case studies tailored to your context (see customizations below) [seven live sessions; can be spread over five weeks or condensed into two full days]
- Creating Community Playbooks – a full private cohort to support participants in creating core documentation for their community or project [two live sessions per week for seven weeks]
Mini-workshops available privately
CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework. Some Mini-workshops can be clustered thematically if you are interested in a specific area of community management (for example, planning and facilitating meetings and events or interpersonal dynamics and team culture). Several of these workshops are also ideal if you are hosting a champions program and wish to include some training for your champions.
The following CSCCE Mini-workshops can be delivered as private training sessions:
- Creating core values statements
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Enacting culture change: The Four-Frame model
- Making a PACT for more engaging virtual meetings and events
- Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings
- Preparing and Designing for large-scale collaborations (two-part series)
- Working with volunteers
Developing new trainings
To discuss the possibility of developing new trainings related to community engagement and interpersonal dynamics in STEM, please reach out to training@cscce.org.
About CSCCE private trainings
In general, all CSCCE-delivered private trainings include:
- Places for up to 30 participants
- Live session delivery via CSCCE’s Zoom account*
- Instructor review of activities between sessions to identify points for further discussion
- Access to proprietary training materials including slides, worksheets, templates, and guides in CSCCE’s Google Workspace, both during and after the training
- Ongoing access to CSCCE’s community of practice and more than 1000 community engagement professionals (provided by default to participants in multi-week courses, optional for Mini-workshop participants)
In general, all CSCCE-delivered private trainings include:
- A custom webpage and registration form to support sign ups (if needed)
- Learner support including facilitated onboarding and monitoring of attendance
- Technical support for the duration of the training including quick start guides to key platforms used
- An evaluation survey to gather learner feedback
For multi-week courses you can also expect:
- Up to 30 seats in CSCCE’s Canvas learning management system (where applicable)
- A private channel in the CSCCE Slack workspace for communications before, during, and after the training
- An optional, 30-minute, live orientation session that includes information about all of the platforms we use in our trainings
- Final review of learner attendance and homework
- Graduate recognition including digital badges and the option to be featured on the CSCCE website
- Analysis of learner feedback survey data and a final report
*Please note that we do not record training sessions by default. This is to protect our online classrooms as a confidential learning environment. If you require session recordings, we can discuss this with you as a customization option.
Customizing your private training
For an additional fee, we can also work with you to customize our training materials to your specific needs. This might include:
- Additional seats (i.e., a cohort larger than 30)
- Developing custom case studies related to your domain
- Customizing training materials (e.g., slide decks and worksheets)
- Combining multiple Mini-workshops into a series
- Adding office hours sessions (e.g., to apply course materials to your specific context) to a multi-week course or Mini-workshop series
- Adding additional Mini-workshops to a multi-week training course to meet the needs of your group
- Editing and sharing session recordings or snippets
- Hosting an in-person training at your location
Scheduling a private training
To schedule a private CSCCE training, please send an email to training@cscce.org. We’ll then schedule a 30 minute meeting with you to discuss your needs, scheduling options, and any customizations you’re interested in exploring, as well as our current pricing structure.