Discover 6 elements to include in a training to make it more likely for participants to engage in what we’re asking them to do during and after the training. The example shared is of training people to canvass for an election.
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PowerLabs
PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. PowerLabs provides training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks. This collection includes videos of training sessions with many guest presenters along with articles.
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
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.
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.
Why a Coaching Approach is Better than Command and Control
Sophia Zaia, a consultant for Powerlabs, shares her key takeaways about using a coaching approach when working with volunteers for the Sunrise Movement’s distributed voter contact program.
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.
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).
Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity
Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.
How to Ensure your Trainings Lead to the Results You Want
Discover 6 elements to include in a training to make it more likely for participants to engage in what we’re asking them to do during and after the training. The example shared is of training people to canvass for an election.
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
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.
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.
Why a Coaching Approach is Better than Command and Control
Sophia Zaia, a consultant for Powerlabs, shares her key takeaways about using a coaching approach when working with volunteers for the Sunrise Movement’s distributed voter contact program.
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.
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).
Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity
Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.