Randall Smith

How to Ensure your Trainings Lead to the Results You Want

Want your training to translate into action? Explore six proven elements that boost engagement and follow-through—using election canvassing as an example.

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How to Make Better Decisions Together

The PowerLabs article highlights the significance of collaborative decision-making for improving outcomes and introduces the DECIDE model to guide this process

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Thriving Together: The Science of Motivation

Watch this PowerLabs webinar for an introduction to the science of motivation and discover practical methods applicable in most organizing contexts.

How to Design Volunteer Jobs to be More Motivating

Do you need help designing volunteer jobs to be more motivating? Here is an easy-to-apply framework that organizers can use to improve any role. This article is written by Randall Smith from Powerlabs.

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Learn a Goal Setting Technique: Objectives and Key Results OKRs

Objectives and Key Results are a simple goal-setting technique that can help increase organizational learning and improve performance.

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Efficacy is Essential for Taking Action

It’s essential for people to feel they can do something about a problem. Here is what we can do to increase people’s efficacy to take action.

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A Framework for Thinking about Training and Behaviour Change

Randall Smith from PowerLabs shares a framework for thinking about training and behaviour change called KSW or KSAW.

Before Action Reviews (BARs) and After Action Reviews (AARs)

Useful tools to help with planning and reflections in your campaigns – Before Action Reviews (BARs) and After Action Reviews (AARs).

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Designing Powerful Teams with Ruth Wageman

Watch this recording of Ruth Wageman to learn how you can put in place the 6 conditions that make it more likely to create a great team.

Build More Powerful Campaigns with Social Science

Watch this webinar to learn some of the essential takeaways to improve your organizing with insights from social science.

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