Webinars

2025 Nonprofit Compensation Report Insights webinar
Join us to learn from our panel and hear insights gleaned from the 2025 Central Indiana nonprofit salary report. Including: Tour of the salary report, understanding the data reports, how and when to use the fractional/leveraged model for growth, and recruiting insight.

Empowering Non-Profits: Leveraging AI for Human Resources webinar on September 16 at 1p.m. Whether you’re starting your AI journey or looking to refine your approach, hear from Susan Rider with Human Capital Concepts to offer actionable insights to future-proof your HR strategy. Presented by the HR Nonprofit Peer Group. Cost: Free.

Making the Business Case for Skills-Based Talent Strategy prerecorded webinar
Join Natalie Wenzler for an overview of skills-based talent strategy, how to start changing your hiring process immediately, and what to consider as you implement the practices into your organization. Presented by HR Peer Group. Cost: free.

HR Best Practices for an Ever-Evolving World webinar
Join Jeremy York of InvigorateHR as he explores demographic shifts and the changing expectations in the current and future workforce, discusses AI’s influence on workforce management and privacy, and examines workplace culture and retention strategies to align with the workplace evolution. Presented by the Nonprofit HR Peer Group. Cost: Free.

Maximizing learning outcomes: Choosing the right training format webinar
In this session, we will explore the benefits and limitations of live, online, and hybrid training formats, focusing on how to apply adult learning principles to each. We’ll discuss how to assess your organization’s and learners’ needs to determine the most effective training approach. You’ll leave with practical strategies for implementing a training format that engages your employees and enhances their learning experience and performance.

How to walk employees down the development path –Even when one doesn’t exist 
Join Mike Bensi for a dynamic session on employee growth and engagement. We’ll discuss career advancement challenges, share personal stories, and explore strategies for effective development conversations. Learn how to support and motivate your team, create a conversation on career paths, and implement development efforts. Presented by the Nonprofit HR Peer Group. Cost: Free.

Calling all leadership heroes webinar
We live in a volatile world, and the way you manage impacts your staff’s well-being. A manager influences their team member’s happiness just as much as the person’s spouse or doctor! To foster and grow a healthy work environment, managers need to understand and cultivate leadership skills.

Learning objectives:

• Understand why leadership development is more important than ever.
• Learn about Emotional Intelligence (EI) and psychological safety and how to cultivate them in leaders.
• Spotlight some of United Way of Central Indiana’s leadership initiatives. Hear about their new manager orientation, one-day workshop, and emerging leaders program to garner ideas for your organization.

Emotional Intelligence: Your Way to Employee Retention
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is responsible for 58% of our job performance, yet we fail to recognize its importance in employee retention. We know that employees don’t leave organizations per se but exit because of their manager. So, people leave because of people. And most leave people who don’t treat others like people. Developing the emotional intelligence of our leaders is the key to creating work environments that prioritize relationships, illustrate employee value, and increase overall employee connectivity—all important factors of employee retention.

Together we’ll learn:

• The importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace.
• Strategies to grow emotional intelligence.
• The impact of EQ on your people.

Employee Burnout: It’s Real
In today’s world, many professionals have experienced burnout at their current job. According to one Deloitte study, 77 percent of the workforce has experienced burnout. So yes, it’s a real thing.

Learn:

• Define employee burnout and understand its causes.
• Explain the consequences of burnout and their impact.
• Understand how to help alleviate and prevent burnout.

Mental Health for a diverse organization
One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to the subject of mental health in a diverse workforce. This interactive discussion outlines tips and strategies organizations can take to address the topic of mental health and wellness in a multi-generational workplace. Presented by Jamie Bierman with HR Elements and partnering with VonLehman CPA & Advisory Group.

Leading remote and hybrid teams
The world of work has changed … and so has leadership. In the past, you may have seen most of your team in person every workday. Now, you may lead employees you only see sometimes and others … maybe not at all. And it isn’t just how you interact with each employee that has changed. The ways they interact, communicate, and collaborate with each other also has changed.

If you want to improve your skills as a leader, especially if you lead a remote or hybrid team, gain some critical insights from this timely webinar led by Kevin Eikenberry, founder of The Kevin Eikenberry Group.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging: Where to start?
Implementing a strong Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiative can be intimidating to many organizations even though they have strong desires to do it. Join us for an informative conversation on how to start a DEIB strategy and launch it successfully.

Strategic teamwork: Using Teamwork Trifecta
There are key behaviors teams must learn, adopt, and practice to function at their highest level. This session focuses on key characteristics of effective teams, a model for measuring effective teamwork and productivity, and attributes of ideal team players. Lessons learned can be applied to leadership, department, and other teams.

Strategies for Recruitment and Retention during the “Great Reshuffle”
When it comes to recruiting and retaining employees during the ‘Great Reshuffle’, many organizations think they are unable to capture their ideal candidate without a large salary budget. However, many times, salary isn’t what they’re looking for! Great culture, flexible hours, great benefits, and more are oftentimes more important than the salary itself.

Talent Acquisition: Trends in a Post-Pandemic World
Participants will receive key tips on attracting key staff in a highly competitive market and gain insights on how to increase process efficiency and reduce barriers through the selection process. Join Charitable Advisors’ quarterly HR Nonprofit Peer Group as Chelsea DuKate from Red Envelope Consulting shares best practices for hiring the right talent.

The Importance of Culture
Join HR expert share the importance of creating a culture in your nonprofit organization. Learn how focusing on wellbeing, upskilling, and engagement can impact an organization’s culture and tips on how to improve your organization’s culture. Presented by Deirdre Bird from VonLehman CPA & Advisory. Cost: Free.

How to Differentiate Through Total Rewards
Learn how to recruit, retain and motivate your team through incentives.

Every Leader is a Coach (or Mentor)
Join Lisa Hanger as she share how we can improve morale and performance with our staff.

Limiting Beliefs that Might be Holding You Back
Learn how to identify your limiting beliefs, discover the many ways they are affecting the way you are showing up in your work and life right now, and create strategies to sidestep them.

Lessons learned: Nonprofit leadership resume
Bryan Orander, president at Charitable Advisors, and Kathleen Poland, recruiter, share best practices in draft a resume for a leadership position.

Should we close that program? Understanding the McMillan matrix
A brief overview of the MacMilan Matrix worksheet for the executive director and board of directors to make tough decisions about closing a program.