Hiring the right people—and helping them thrive—can make or break your nonprofit’s success. This interactive workshop series walks you through effective interviewing techniques, collaborative problem-solving around common hiring challenges, and proven onboarding strategies to set new staff up for long-term success. You’ll leave with practical tools to attract, select, and retain talent that strengthens your mission and culture. Join your peers in this hands-on learning experience to sharpen your hiring and onboarding practices from start to finish.

Workshop Design

Morning Session – Effective Interviewing

Who you hire is a direct reflection of you and your organization. During this portion of the workshop, we will explore and role-play helpful tips and tools to improve your interviewing skills and ensure you hire the right candidate that your budget can afford every time. Focus areas will include defining your ideal candidate, proper interview preparation, and proper interview execution.

Brainstorming Lunch – Recruitment Challenges

Leveraging the peer knowledge in the room, we will surface the key challenges we all face in recruiting and retaining talent in the nonprofit sector. We will then seek to brainstorm as a group around solutions and best practices for addressing these difficulties.

Afternoon Session – Effective Onboarding

Phasing new employees into their roles with structured onboarding to set them up for success has always proven to be more effective than the very common “throw them into the frying pan,” or “figure your own job out” schools of learning. During this section of the workshop, we will examine and discuss tips and best practices to help new employees assimilate quickly and accelerate their speed to proficiency resulting in more productive, satisfied, engaged, and tenured employees.

Who Should Attend:

Nonprofit leaders and managers charged with hiring and building high performing staff teams. Organizations are encouraged to attend as a leadership group.