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Strategy Aligned Project Management Webinar
Close the gap between strategy and projects!
Missed the live webinar? Register to watch a recording.
You’re invited to our Strategy Aligned Project Management Webinar!
In this free webinar, Jami Yazdani and IYCON CEO Jude Chagas Pereira will offer practical techniques for aligning projects and organizational strategy.
When & Where: Wednesday, January 26, 2022, at 1 PM ET via Zoom
Registration: Reserve your seat
From project planning and assessment to project tracking and management, you’ll be introduced to strategies and tools for closing the gap between projects and organizational strategy and for supporting more agile and impactful planning.
Now on LinkedIn Live: Our Impactful Project & Planning Microtraining Series
Our free monthly microtraining series will now premiere on LinkedIn Live.
Our Impactful Project & Planning Microtraining Series will now premiere monthly on LinkedIn Live.
This series covers project management and planning topics, from leading teams and projects to strategic and program planning, via free monthly trainings that last less than 15 minutes each.
During each LinkedIn Live premiere, Jami will be responding to your questions and comments in real-time. If you miss the premiere, the session content will continue to be available on-demand on LinkedIn and via our YouTube channel.
Our next microtraining premieres on Wednesday, November 17th at 2pm ET and will focus on going From Strategic Plan to Action Plan. We’ll talk about realistic strategies for successfully implementing your strategic goals.
Our new Impactful Project & Planning Microtraining Series!
Our new (free!) microtraining series will cover project management and planning topics in less than 15 minutes.
Our new Impactful Project & Planning Microtraining Series will cover project management and planning topics, from leading teams and projects to strategic and program planning, via free monthly trainings that last less than 15 minutes each.
These short trainings will premiere monthly on our YouTube channel. During the premiere, Jami Yazdani will be responding to your questions and comments via chat in real-time. If you miss the premiere or want to watch the content again, the session will continue to be available on demand.
Our first Impactful Project & Planning Microtraining Series premieres on Wednesday, August 18th at 2pm ET and will focus on Stakeholder Engagement. We’ll talk about simple strategies for engaging with our community of stakeholders during strategic planning and when managing projects.
Virtual Fundraising Discussion
Discussing staying connected to donors and virtually fundraising on the Sipping Tea with Sabrina series.
Jami Yazdani joined Sabrina Walker Hernandez of Supporting World Hope for her Sipping Tea with Sabrina series on July 22, 2020. In their Facebook Live discussion, Sabrina and Jami talked about the key strategies for staying connected to donors and virtually fundraising during the COVID-19 crisis.
The recording is available at https://www.facebook.com/supportingworldhope/videos/350830649243881/
Sipping Tea With Sabrina - How to Stay Virtually Connected with Donors
Need support moving an event online? Want to discuss options for virtual events that will work for your organization’s budget, staffing and unique environment?
Stepping Back before Moving Forward
How can we take the personal interactions our users and clients enjoyed, such as networking and brainstorming sessions, hands-on support, and product demonstrations, and move these experiences online?
At our recent Supporting Successful Collaborations Session, one of the topics of discussion was effectively replicating face-to-face interactions in a virtual environment. How can we take the personal interactions our users and clients enjoyed, such as networking and brainstorming sessions, hands-on support, and product demonstrations, and move these experiences online?
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A session participant talked about how effective and fun her face-to-face interactions with her users had always been. She typically worked with multiple users at one time in the same setting, hopping from user to user as they needed support, with easy access to whiteboards and other tools. Moving her services online has meant a significant increase in interactions, with individual Zoom conferences and email and text exchanges added to group meetings. Trying to replicate her face-to-face interactions has been draining her time and her energy. And would this approach of increased interaction work as well with new users, who hadn’t already had the experience of working together face-to-face?
Over many conversations and in presentations, I’ve encouraged leaders to step back and consider their goals before moving forward with a transition to online services and tools. While virtual environments are rapidly improving and increasingly seeking to mimic in-person interactions (Remo, LunchPool, and Zoom’s Breakout Room feature come to mind), adopting these technologies may have unintended impacts on staff time and might be out of reach for some organization’s budgets. Rather than merely selecting tools to imitate in-person experiences, go back to the purpose and desired outcomes of the service or interaction and consider how those goals can be best served in a virtual environment. You may find that a different type of interaction or access to content using tools you already have (and with which your users are already comfortable) will also support your goals.
How has your organization managed the transition to virtual? Are you trying to replicate face-to-face interactions, or have you moved in a different direction? I’d love to chat with you and hear about your successes and challenges!
Supporting Successful Collaborations Discussion Session
Join us for a small group discussion on ways we can ensure successful collaborations during and after COVID-19.
How do we ensure successful collaborations during and after COVID-19?
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Join us for a small group discussion of challenges to and strategies for pivoting and maintaining our collaborative projects and initiatives during and after the pandemic.
When: Thursday, May 14, 2020 from 2pm – 3pm (EDT) via WebEx
Registration will be limited to 8 attendees to allow for a productive and open discussion, so register today!
Beyond Spending: A Free Webinar
Register for our free webinar on Strategic Budgeting.
Join Jami Yazdani on Wednesday April 8, 2020 at 2pm (EDT) for a free webinar and learn how to strategically manage your budget!
Register today for Beyond Spending: An Introduction to Strategic Budgeting
COVID-19 Continuity Support
Continuity consulting offer for small businesses and nonprofits navigating COVID-19.
To help sustain and support our community during COVID-19, it’s my pleasure to donate time to provide continuity consulting to small businesses and nonprofits. I’d be happy to talk with small businesses, nonprofits, and their employees about ways they can successfully navigate the transition to remote work and practically implement technology to offer (at least some) services online. If you are overwhelmed with options and unsure of which technologies and approaches might work best for your environment, I can talk through those options with you and offer some advice.
Small businesses, nonprofits and their employees can schedule a time to talk with me over the next 3 weeks at https://calendly.com/yazdaniconsulting/covidtech (Update: We’ve extended this offer through May 1st)
I’m also opening a Slack channel to help folks share strategies. Please email me to be invited to the channel.
What to expect: Once you schedule a call, you will be asked to complete a short Information Form that will help me prepare for our discussion. Each call is scheduled for 45 minutes and you will receive a call from me at the scheduled time. In 45 minutes, I can hope to learn about the challenges you are facing in responding to COVID-19 and offer some suggestions for technology and approaches you can use. I won’t be able to walk you through the steps of a technology implementation, but I hope to be able to point you in a direction to help you move forward on your own or to find support. I’m not able to provide legal, tax or financial advice, but I can suggest how and when to implement technology tools.
Also, this isn’t a sales pitch for my services. I won’t use our 45 minutes to talk about Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation and I won’t suggest you hire me to help you fully implement a technology we discuss. If folks are interested in learning about my services, they should schedule a different time to talk. I’m donating my time because I think I have some experience and expertise to offer and this seemed like one way I can help. And (selfishly), as small businesses and nonprofits are among my targeted clients, I’d like to ensure their sustainability during COVID-19 so that they are still around to do business with once things return to (a new?) normal.
Stay safe,
Jami Yazdani
Founder and Chief Strategist, Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation