MACC Conversations

Investing in Skills for Promotion and Retention

Tune in to hear Diane Seep, Senior Human Resources Consultant and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager. This discussion goes into how to find the right tools to remain sustainable and competitive. The benefit of investing in skill building to provide opportunity to learn and grow with the end goal to retain employees. The Importance of employee to employer communication and evaluating the roll to make the best candidate match up.

Moving to a Skills-Based Workplace

Tune in to hear from Ingrid Sabah, the Managing Director of Impact, Evaluation, and Learning for the African American Leadership Forum and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager where they'll discuss building a skills-based workplace. Sabah shares why learning and skill building goes hand-in-hand are foundational to organizational professional development. Dig into how self-taught experts can sometimes be a better fit for a position instead of gauging qualifications with a college degree, and how this opens up the opportunity to more potential candidates. Organizations can learn to rethink about what is really needed to reduce barriers in the hiring process in this episode.

Training Managers to Adjust to New Workplace Expectations

Tune in to hear Diane Seep, Senior Human Resources Consultant and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager talk through why managers having the tools to build skills in a leadership role can fulfill that responsibility of being a manager. In order to lead a team, managers need those resources to manage a team first. The go on to discuss that investing time and space to develop managers creates room for people to grow.

Compensation and Pay Equity

Tune in to hear Theresa Bernard, Human Resources Generalist and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager discussing how to increase value proposition as an employer to increase recruitment and retention. This session answers the question of: Are compensation amounts reflecting the skill level and position and duties? And, what are the benefits of doing a compensation analysis? 

Building Equity in Compensation, Benefits, and Organizational Policy: 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.

Trends and Benefits in Engaging Employees in Benefits Design

Tune in to hear from Quinn Daley, Human Resources Specialist and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager in the episode of Ask MACC. This session dives into compensation looking past just the rates and salary. Benefits packages are becoming something that people are looking at ad using as consideration when looking at a position. They further discuss applying real-life experience to a benefits design.

Helping Non-Profit Leaders Thrive

Tune in to hear Julie Bluhm, Interim CEO of Bluhm Forward and Laurel Hansen, MACC Program Manager. They'll discuss what methods can help nonprofit leaders succeed and working to make leadership transitions as smooth as they can be. They go over the steps that new leaders can take to have strong start and make the onboarding process less stressful.

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.