MACC Conversations

Fresh Thinking About Shared Leadership

Tune in to hear from Mandy Ellerton who spent nine years leading critical work at the Bush Foundation. Now she is a founder and principal consultant at dawn:dusk, who will present a Shared Leadership virtual session with the MACC network on October 23rd, 2024! She joins Laurel Hansen, MACC's Program Manager, to discuss the state of employee burnout, resource scarcity, and historical wrongs, all to show the need for stronger leadership and reimagining what that looks like for our organizations. They discuss making efforts to increase the durability of our nonprofit organizations. Dive into this conversation to get into building trust between colleagues and leaders and truly believe in the people that you work with.

Adopting a Mental Health Mindset in the Workplace

Tune in to hear from Molly Peterson, Director of Adult Mental Health Programs at NAMI Minnesota, joining MACC Program Manager, Laurel Hansen to talk about the importance of overall mental health and how it relates to the workplace. Peterson explores what it means to set boundaries for your well-being and that it's okay to uphold them in the workplace. It's okay to say "no" if it means the overall health of your well-being Being conscious of your own mental health and what capacity you have to keep it healthy is what matters most and that shouldn't stop at work. Learn more about practicing mental health and what that looks like in the workplace.

Developing an Effective Workplace Culture

Tune in to hear MACC Program Manager, Laurel Hansen in conversation with Carl Schlueter, Executive Director of Banyan Community as he talks about the power of intentionally cultivating workplace relationships. Learn how he builds relationships to strengthen his organization for the long run.  

Making Compensation Competitive and Equitable

Tune in to hear from Claudia Waring of AWUM and Diane Seep, MACC's Senior Human Resources Consultant, as they discuss with MACC's Program Manager Laurel Hansen all about highlighting the employees doing the work and making sure to accurately compensate them and center pay equity. Wages have a large part in whether employees choose to stay with an organization or not and making those wages competitive and equitable is a strong benefit to appealing to employees.

Disrupting Workplace Norms

Tune in to hear from Ashley Oolman, founder of AlliedFolk, and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager as they talk about why it's important to be aware of social norms and how to challenge, disrupt, and confront them. Workplace norms can be difficult to shift because of their familiarity, but unaddressed they can establish unrealistic expectations and lead to exclusion. Tune in to hear about how people-centered change can bring forth transformation.Visit the full Ask MACC: Workforce Hub website here: https://macc-mn.org/WhatsNew/AskMACCWorkforceSolutions.aspx

Remaining Competitive Amidst Shifts in Post-Pandemic Workforce Expectations

Tune in to hear Katie Berg, Human Resources Consultant and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager. In this session the difficulty to keep workforce positions filled is highlighted. Nonprofits have to remain competitive with for profit organizations and emphasize the importance of the work that nonprofits do hold on to the workforce. Some tactics presented are making benefits more of a status quo, discussing higher wages, and making it so workers can have a healthy work life balance.Visit the full Ask MACC: Workforce Hub website here: https://macc-mn.org/WhatsNew/AskMACCWorkforceSolutions.aspx

Market Trends and Expectations of the Post-Pandemic Workforce

Tune in to hear Amanda Golly, Vice President of Human Resource Services and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager for this session on Culture. Employers need to be looking at everything in order to retain high performers and identify and emphasize why your organization is so important. This session further Discusses how manager's role in maintaining a healthy organizational culture.

Strengthening Workplace Culture: Staff Engagement

Tune in to hear Theresa Bernard, Human Resource Generalist and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager discuss how to help organizations invest in a strong value proposition. They go on to finding ways to listen better to staff so they feel that their organization is making changes on their behalf and showing them how they care.

Centering IDEA

Tune in to hear Theresa Bernard, Human Resource Generalist and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager speak on the importance of implementing IDEA in an organization. This session takes a dive into what can be done for organizations that want to implement IDEA so it works with their mission as an organization; highlighting the value proposition of IDEA and how it has positive impacts on an organization.Visit the full Ask MACC: Workforce Hub website here: https://macc-mn.org/WhatsNew/AskMACCWorkforceSolutions.aspx