Friday, December 18, 2020

Start Time: 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/12pm PT/11am AK/9am HI

0:00 – 0:10

Introduction of Staff

• Carrie Kiley, MBA – Senior Manager, Affiliate Leader Relations
• Rachel Whitlock – Affiliate Manager
• Bill Stanton – Affiliate Manager
• Maya Arcilla – Affiliate Coordinator
• Amy Biedenharn, CAE – Director, DPG/MIG/Affiliate Relations
• Diane Enos, MPH, RDN, FAND – Chief Learning Officer

0:10 – 0:20

Overview of Training Structure

0:20 – 0:30

Tutorial of the Platform

• Chats
• Raising your hand
• Polls
• Breakout sessions

0:30 – 1:30

President Elect Introductions

• Name
• Affiliate
• Employment
• Your favorite beverage and snack
• What are you most nervous about becoming president?

1:30 – 2:00

Breakout Room Networking

• Holiday Plans
• I Have Virtual Meeting Burnout
• Why did I agree to be President Elect?
• Good News Only Group
• Questions and Conversations with Academy Affiliate Team

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Start Time: 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/12pm PT/11am AK/9am HI

0:00 – 0:15

Welcome and Overview

Carrie Kiley, MBA

0:15 – 0:35

Academy President Elect Interview

Kevin Sauer, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND

0:35 – 1:20

Academy Operations

Carrie Kiley, MBA and Rachel Whitlock

Gain an understanding of the operational side of leading an affiliate to use with your board to ensure proper governance. After this session, you will be able to apply business practices and understand the legal responsibilities of serving as a board member.

1:20 – 1:40

Breakout Group Discussion

Regions of the country

1:40 – 2:10

Leveraging the Training to Set Goals

Amy Biedenharn, CAE and Bill Stanton

Learn how to use the information gained during the training to determine your affiliate’s priorities and draft potential short, mid, and long term goals. After the training take the resources from the Academy and work with your board to set your priorities

2:10 – 2:30

Affiliate Best Practice

TBD

2:30 – 2:45

Wrap Up

Friday, January 15, 2021

Start Time: 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/12pm PT/11am AK/9am HI

0:00 – 0:20

Affiliate Best Practice

TBD

0:20 – 1:00

Managing Difficult Conversations

Amy Biedenharn, CAE and Bill Stanton

Volunteer led organizations face a unique challenge when it comes to handling differing viewpoints in respect to decision making. This session will focus on techniques you can bring back to help facilitate difficult conversations within your affiliate.

1:00 – 1:20

Breakout Group Discussion

Affiliates of similar sizes

1:20 – 1:50

Volunteer Structure and Support

Amy Biedenharn, CAE and Rachel Whitlock

Finding and keeping volunteers can be the biggest challenge for affiliates. This session will focus on the skills necessary for training, motivating, and retaining your volunteers.

1:50 – 2:20

Board and Volunteer Communications

Carrie Kiley, MBA and Bill Stanton

As the president of your affiliate, you are responsible for how the operations are executed. Takeaways from this session will be focused on the day to day tasks of running board meetings, setting expectations, and ensuring you are focusing on accomplishing your strategic plan as a board.

2:20 – 2:45

Breakout Group Discussion

2:45 – 3:00

Wrap Up

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Start Time: 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/12pm PT/11am AK/9am HI

0:00 – 0:20

Affiliate Best Practice

TBD

0:20 – 0:50

Volunteer and Staff Succession Planning

Carrie Kiley, MBA and Rachel Whitlock

This session will focus on how to ensure smooth transitions and setting your affiliate up for future success no matter who is in your various roles. From this session you will have a framework to bring back to your board to begin creating your own succession plans.

0:50 – 1:10

Breakout Group Discussion

Random Assignment

1:10 – 1:55

Academy CEU and FNCE Overview

Diane Enos, MPH, RDN, FAND

Hear from the Academy’s Chief Learning Officer Diane Enos, MPH, RDN, FAND on how the Academy leverages CEU data from CDR to plan what educational items to develop for Academy members. Gain insights into how the Academy plans FNCE^© and considerations your affiliate can also take into account when planning your annual conference.

1:55 – 2:25

Data Driven Decision Making

Amy Biedenharn, CAE and Carrie Kiley, MBA

Gain an understanding on how to collect and leverage data within your organization. After this session you will be able to empower your board to make decisions and changes based on current trends and member feedback.

2:25 – 2:50

Breakout Group Discussion

2:50 – 3:00

Wrap Up

Friday, January 22, 2021

Start Time: 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/12pm PT/11am AK/9am HI

0:00 – 0:30

Program of Work (POW), Budgeting, and Fiscal Controls

Carrie Kiley, MBA and Rachel Whitlock

Learn how to use your past actual costs coupled with planning future programs based on your strategic plan to ensure your affiliate keeps moving forward. Use this session along with our session on goal setting to create a realistic and future forward budget to expand benefits to your members in a responsible manner.

0:20 – 0:50

Breakout Group Discussion

0:50 – 1:35

Understanding Copyright and Contracts

Amy Biedenharn, CAE and Bill Stanton

Learn the basics of requests for proposals (RFPs), reviewing contracts, and creating agreements. Also learn about copyright (writing, photographs, charts, and graphs) and how to ensure your affiliate is protected from copyright infringement claims.

1:35 – 2:05

Breakout Group Discussion

2:05 – 2:25

Pulling it All Together

Carrie Kiley, MBA

We’ll take a few moments to review prioritization and goal setting as you work through the ideas you generated throughout the training.

2:25 – 2:45

Town Hall – Open Q&A with Staff