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CSCCE hosts monthly community calls and weekly social hours as part of the programming for our community of practice. This calendar additionally shows one-off events and online trainings offered by the center.

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Mini-Workshop | Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings

Meetings and virtual events often involve asking attendees to make decisions. Decision-making invokes numerous considerations, including how to negotiate power dynamics, empower everyone to express their opinions, and actually reach the outcome(s) you desire. In this Mini-workshop, you will explore four broad decision-making modes (authority rule, consultation, voting, and consensus) and then use the PACT … Continue reading "Mini-Workshop | Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings"

Mini-Workshop | Selecting supplementary tools for virtual meetings and events

Community managers regularly use online tools to support the needs of community members in virtual meetings and events. With so many possible needs to solve for, and so many potential online tools to use – how can you quickly determine which tools to explore and then use? In this Mini-workshop, you will apply CSCCE’s BASICS … Continue reading "Mini-Workshop | Selecting supplementary tools for virtual meetings and events"

CSCCE QSS Session | Facilitating stakeholder meetings

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This quarter, our speakers will be focusing on facilitating … Continue reading "CSCCE QSS Session | Facilitating stakeholder meetings"

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25W)

This eight-week course is designed to offer new and existing community managers a core set of actionable skills and strategies. Participants meet twice a week, with lecture-style content interspersed with discussion and project work. Our Winter offering of Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Friday, 17 January until Friday, 7 … Continue reading "Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25W)"

Content Design (CODE25W)

Content Design (CODE) is a six-week course that introduces a strategic approach to designing and creating community-engaged content that energizes and inspires your community members. Our winter offering of Content Design (CODE25W) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Tuesday, 28 January until Friday, 7 March 2025. The key dates are:  Tuesday sessions: 28 January; … Continue reading "Content Design (CODE25W)"

Mini-workshop | Preparing for large-scale collaborations

In this first of a two part series of two-hour workshops, participants will explore dimensions of team readiness for large, multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives and how a team readiness assessment can be used to identify the stage of their project and which areas they need to address as a priority. By the end of this workshop, … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Preparing for large-scale collaborations"

Mini-workshop | Designing for large-scale collaborations

Prerequisite: Preparing for large-scale collaborations (Part 1) In this second workshop of a two part series, participants will debrief the team readiness surveys they drafted in workshop one. They will explore how to deploy the survey and how to report the results back to the community and determine next steps. Then, using a framework describing … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Designing for large-scale collaborations"

Mini-workshop | An introduction to project management for scientists

This two hour session provides an overview of the concepts and approaches scientists can use in managing their collaborative projects. You will leave the session able to describe what a project is and the relationship between projects and operations. We’ll also discuss the three types of project and their relationship to uncertainty and complexity. Finally, … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | An introduction to project management for scientists"

CSCCE QSS Session | Co-creating community outputs and activities with your members

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. In this session, we’ll discuss ways of involving your … Continue reading "CSCCE QSS Session | Co-creating community outputs and activities with your members"

Mini-workshop | Making a PACT for engaging virtual meetings and events

With virtual work increasingly the norm, community managers are often tasked with convening and facilitating virtual meetings. In this Mini-workshop, you will discuss the opportunities and challenges of virtual meetings and explore the “Making a PACT” framework (Purpose, Attendees, Community management, Tech tools) for effective meeting design. You will apply the framework directly to example scenarios so that … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Making a PACT for engaging virtual meetings and events"

Mini-workshop | An introduction to project management for scientists

This two hour session provides an overview of the concepts and approaches scientists can use in managing their collaborative projects. You will leave the session able to describe what a project is and the relationship between projects and operations. We’ll also discuss the three types of project and their relationship to uncertainty and complexity. Finally, … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | An introduction to project management for scientists"

Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB25Sp)

Our spring offering of the Project Management Bootcamp for Scientists (PMB25Sp) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Monday, 31 March until Thursday, 17 April. The key dates are: Monday lessons: 31 March; 7, 14 April at 12-2pm EDT / 4-6pm UTC Thursday Co-Labs: 3,10,17 April at 12-2pm EDT / 4-6pm UTC This six-session bootcamp intensive offers … Continue reading "Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB25Sp)"