The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.
Digital training for RS Macdonald supported organisations
Organisations right across the voluntary sector rapidly turned to digital during the pandemic because there was no other option to keep in touch with people, keep working, and provide services. Everyone learned a huge amount during this forced experiment. Now it’s time to reflect and work out what to keep doing over the longer term. SCVO’s digital team are offering a free training programme, funded by the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust, this spring to support RS Macdonald grantholders to move forward on their digital journey.
About the programme
Course aims
Our Make Digital Work for You series is designed to help support you to find and use digital tools, methods and ways of working to:
- Increase capacity,
- Ease workload,
- Manage time more effectively,
- Solve problems faster,
- Create time for creativity.
When will the programme take place?
The programme is running during May and June, sessions will run on Zoom. All of the sessions will last for two hours. Each session builds on the previous one, so we recommend that you join them all if you can. But you can sign up for individual sessions, too.
Who is this training for?
This dedicated programme is available free of charge to organisations holding active grants with the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust. The content is relevant for staff working in any role in the organisation, but may be particularly useful for people managers, HR teams and teams that have a range of remote and flexible work patterns. We welcome bookings from several people in one organisation.
How to book
You can book your place on the SCVO website.
Programme details
Make Digital Work for You series
| Session title | Topic summary |
|---|---|
| 1. Working iteratively: what it is and how you do it Book 9 May | This session is an introduction to the key principles of working iteratively. It show you how digital can help you make the most of all your resources, ultimately providing the best service you can for the people your organisation serves. This session will support you to: - free up time - enable teams to work faster - create a ‘data first’ culture, eliminating assumptions - quickly identify what is working and what is not. |
| 2. How to work collaboratively in the hybrid office Book 16 May | This session will focus on tips and tools to collaborate effectively in a hybrid office, providing an overview of how you can improve collaboration across your team. The course will help you empower your employees to do their best work, creating freedom, autonomy, creativity and innovation. This session will support you to: - understand what collaboration means - create a collaborative culture - identify tools for effective collaboration. |
| 3. Creating great teamwork in the hybrid office Book 30 May | This session gives and overview of how to set and create a team agreement with your team, significantly improving your teams communication. Topics include clarifying what you expect of each other, allowing you to work harmoniously, no matter where your desk is. It give you strategies to help you and your team agree on common approaches to processes and tools, along with culture, values and accountability. This session will support you to: - understand principles of good team communication - create your own team communications guide. |
| 4. Asynchronous working: what is it and how to do it Book 6 June | This session will support you to embrace the benefits of freedom that come with remote work, while helping your work to be the best it can be. This session will address some of the misconceptions around asynchronous working, and explain how you can use it to have a better work experience: - increasing staff capacity - reducing time wasted in meetings - allowing you to get more done uninterrupted. |
SCVO’s expertise
SCVO have been delivering support to help Scottish Voluntary organisations develop digital skills and design led approaches for 6+ years. Over the past year (Jan 2022-Jan 2023) we have worked directly with 600 participants in our targeted training which helps organisations to rethink and reimagine their services.
Our training lead Maddie Stark has over 20 years’ experience of managing and delivering services in the third sector and over 15 years of developing and delivering training in the third sector.
She has 7 years’ experience at SCVO of developing and delivering training and support to support the sector to reimagine and redesign services.
If there is anything further you would like to clarify before the course starts, please contact Maddie maddie.stark@scvo.scot.
Testimonials from recent participants on SCVO Digital training
Thanks for the session. I found it really interesting and it gave me a few new ways of thinking about problems we face and addressing things. Always like training where you get practical tips to apply in the work place.
Excellent session! As we had hybrid and remote working sprung on us with the pandemic it was great to stop and consider what is and isn't working and think about hitting the reset button to look at co-design and how to do things better.
I attended all 4 sessions. Great delivery, good information, new learning/knowledge already being put into practice. Looking at additional materials I can gather (book recommendations/websites) to help me going forward. Maddie is a great presenter – friendly, knowledgeable and helpful suggestions.
This programme has been funded by The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
Our work to help organisations grow their digital capacity is supported by:
