29 March – 3 April 2021

FREE Live Workshop Week

Welcoming new team members warmly with less effort!

Join us to set up your own toolbox with a standardized process and documents for onboarding new team members – in 6 days only!

  • Develop your own toolbox for onboarding new team members, including handouts, instructions and a checklist, you do not need to reinvent the wheel every time a new paid staff member, volunteer or external contractor joins your team.
  • Prepare a simple and structured organization fact sheet (that you can use anytime)
  • Present ten to-dos in your office that any newcomer needs to be aware of (practical for current team members, too!)
  • Make a simple, structured handout with instructions to help your new team member get started.
  • Learn how to set up your onboarding process with clear guidelines that anyone can follow (so that you can delegate this to someone else!)
  • Add a secret ingredient to your checklist that helps you to always be in time with your onboarding preparations!
  • And … learn from other nonprofits in the closed Facebook group for members of the Live Workshop Week only!

 

  • EThis is for you if you work in a (small) nonprofit with new people coming in as paid staff, volunteers or external contractors and if you do not have a welcome package ready for them.
  • EThis is especially for you if you are always thinking “I should write that down for next time” when you are onboarding a new team member (and if you never find the time to do that).
  • EThis is really for you if you would like to spend more time making new persons feel welcome instead of panicking about the instructions and information you need to give them.

Click the button to join the Live Workshop Week and receive the daily instructions in your inbox from
29 March to 3 April! (We will throw in a reminder message, too)

All messaging will be on topic. No spamming, that’s a promise!

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About Suzanne Bakker

 

Hi, I am Suzanne Bakker and I created Changing Tides because I want to support small nonprofits to professionalize and become resilient. I know that this is a big challenge if you are a small organization. I know this from my own experience working in small (and some bigger) nonprofits these past 25+ years.

I have been where you are now. Nervous about HR and contracting and afraid to make a potentially costly mistake by not following the law. Uncertain where to find solid advice that suited my small organization, including limited budget and people. In the end, I invested a lot of time and money in learning, through books, courses and peers. And most of all, from practice. From making mistakes, picking myself up and trying a new approach. I think my key attribute in this journey was that I do not give up. Whenever I get stuck, also feel there must be another way and I do not rest until I find it.

Through the years, with my law degree and my experience, I have helped several nonprofits set up their contracting and HR properly. I am a very structured, practical and practice-oriented person. I like to jump into things and get going. And I like to help people get going and move forward.

To balance focus on getting things done, and to make sure you don’t miss out on the reasons and whys, I asked prof. Barentsen to join this course as teacher. He is able to explain all legal concepts as well as details to you with all the right legal nuance and funny stories to boot!

“I help small nonprofits professionalize their organizational and financial management and administration set-up so that they can be reliable and credible partners and achieve the impact they desire – and make our world better for us all.”

 

About prof. Barentsen

 

I am Barend Barentsen and I am a professor of Labour Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands. It is my mission to make my students as passionate about labour law as I am.

I know that for many nonprofits labour law is not a favourite topic. And that it causes some (or even a lot of) stress for them. Especially here in the Netherlands, parts of the law around being a good employer are very complicated. And it can get very costly if you make a mistake.

I want to help you avoid these mistakes so that you can focus on your mission and your core activities and stop worrying about labour law, inspections, audits and whatnot.

So, Suzanne and I made this course for you to help you comply with the law in a practical way that suits your context and size. Of course, I will also update you on the latest developments in the Netherlands, where some changes are going to happen this year, 2021.

“Always very down to earth and pragmatic for small organizations.”

Tom Kok, AviAssist

“I like your focus on very concrete results. Keeping your eyes on the prize. Many nonprofit people are not like that and that makes it all a bit fuzzy sometimes.”

(a current client)