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CSCCE Training update

Upcoming professional development opportunities

In September, we launched the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program. Our first cohort is now well underway, so we’re back in your inbox to tell you about what’s coming up on CSCCE’s training calendar!

Our professional development training offerings are designed to support STEM community managers at various career stages, who might be working in contexts that range from professional associations to research collaborations, infrastructure organizations to academia. You can join us for an online workshop, a multi-week course, or sign up to participate in our next cohort of the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program. Or, you can reach out to us directly about working with us on a private cohort for your organization or local region.

In this training update:

Register for CEF24W, our next cohort of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals – our foundational training that more than 250 STEM community managers have taken to date
Register for PBK24W, a NEW, workshop-style course that takes you through the process of creating and socializing a community playbook
Register for up THREE new Mini-workshops to elevate your collaborative work
Find out more about CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program – and register your intent to enroll

As you check out some of our training options, please reach out with any questions by emailing training@cscce.org. You can also find answers to some FAQs in our latest blog post.

The CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program

CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program builds upon our foundational Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) course to create a longer-form, multi-component, online program for STEM community managers. The program equips community managers and their organizations with necessary skills and frameworks to ground their work in a community-centric leadership approach – and to signal those qualifications to others.

Enrollment is currently open for the spring 2024 cohort of the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program (CERT24Sp). Please complete the intent-to-enroll form to begin the registration process.

Multi-week online courses

Participants in CSCCE multi-week courses attend two live sessions per week, receive access to slides and course materials via Canvas, our learning management system, and are awarded a digital badge upon successful completion to demonstrate their new qualification.

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals is an eight-week course designed to offer new or existing community managers core frameworks and vocabulary to describe their community’s purpose, refine or create strategic programming to engage community members around their shared goals, and identify ways to lower barriers to member participation.

Find out more about CEF

Key dates for CEF24W:

Course begins: 18 January 2024
Course ends: 7 March 2024
Live sessions will take place on Mondays and Thursdays
Registration deadline: 11 December 2023

Creating Community Playbooks

Playbooks or collaboration guides are written hubs that keep your community members, community champions, or community team on the same page by making visible the norms of your shared work. In this workshop-style course, we’ll talk about the different contexts in which playbooks are useful, different strategies for creating and maintaining them, and support participants as they create a “lite” playbook of their own.

Find out more about PBK

Key dates for PBK24W:

Course begins: 16 January 2024
Course ends: 1 March 2024
Live sessions will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays
Registration deadline: 11 December 2023

Mini-workshops

CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework.

Enacting culture change – The Four-Frame model

Many culture change projects are met with general enthusiasm at the conceptual level, but fall short during their implementation. In this Mini-workshop, participants will reflect on their own role as change agents and use Bolman and Deal’s Four-Frame Model to assess and describe different types of barriers to culture change initiatives (structural, human resources, political, and symbolic). We will then use the model to identify where community managers might exert leverage – and what specific actions could help to overcome the identified barriers.

Date and time: Wednesday, 29 November 2023 from 11-12:30pm EST / 4-5:30pm UTC
Registration deadline: Friday, 24 November 2023

Preparing for large-scale collaborations (Part 1)

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, participants will have drafted a survey for their project, and be ready to determine how to translate the survey responses into practical next steps in the second workshop.

Date and time: Wednesday, 10 January 2024 from 11-1pm EST / 4-6pm UTC
Registration deadline: Friday, 5 January 2024

Designing for large-scale collaborations (Part 2)

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 collaborative approaches, participants will identify which combination of approaches or activities will be helpful for the next stage of their collaboration.

Date and time: Wednesday, 7 February 2024 from 11-1pm EST / 4-6pm UTC
Registration deadline: Friday, 2 February 2024

Forthcoming Mini-workshops

More mini-workshops will be added to the calendar in the new year, and will include:

Making a PACT for engaging virtual meetings and events
Making decisions during virtual meetings
Selecting supplementary tools for virtual meetings and events
Working with volunteers
Planning to facilitate
Being an effective meeting facilitator

What our learners say

“The content is and facilitation was excellent, the activities to think about my community [were] directly useful to my work, and honestly feeling validated in what felt right to me was hugely helpful at rebuilding my confidence in this approach.”

– CEF23Sp participant

“The course was delivered in such a professional manner – thoughtful structure, meaningful sequence, supportive environment. It was a real pleasure to turn up each week.”

– CEF23Aus participant

“I would recommend this for someone looking for tools to support their role and a space for intentional learning and strategizing, particularly if they are looking for an ongoing community and support. I think this is helpful at multiple stages of development within a scientific community.”

– CEF23W participant

Meet our recent graduates

Almost 250 learners have successfully completed CSCCE’s Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals course.
Get to know some of them on our CEF graduates webpage!

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Oakland, CA, 94607, USA
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