Workshops & Training
The experts at Wastyn & Associates speak to a variety of groups, events and conferences. You can find them in the Quad Cities speaking to the local Association of Fundraising Professionals chapter or a national conference like the Grant Professionals Association Conference.
Advanced and basic available in 1 hour, 2 hour, half day and full-day workshops for all topics.
Have a specific topic in mind? Wastyn & Associates can speak on almost any topic in grant writing, fundraising, board development, or leadership development.
“Linda conducted the ½ day grant training for our staff that was extremely beneficial. Our staff left the training more equipped and everyone was excited and prepared to write more compelling grants.”
Joy Bush, Executive Director, Gilda's Club Quad Cities
“Linda seeks to understand your services and needs first and then works with you to develop a plan. She is organized, efficient and an excellent partner in delivering on your mission.”
Child Abuse Council, Quad Cities
“Our agency has partnered with Wastyn and Associates to provide 4 trainings to our service area. Linda has a wonderfully unusual way of explaining grant writing. She makes it fun, unintimidating and (honestly) a little sexy! Her knowledge is tremendous. I have received emails from attendees celebrating grant victories because of these trainings.”
-Jesse Mumm, Administrative Assistant, Scott County Kids
“Linda is a true partner working to help our institution realize its vision. Linda’s experience working with large federal funding agencies and private foundations has made it possible for me to entrust her with BVU’s large grant projects while I am able to focus on corporate relations and private donor fundraising."
-Robin Wissink, Director of Special Gifts, Buena Vista University
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In this workshop, participants will learn some specific skills and actions they can take to using coaching as a method to improve the work performance of people who are looking for guidance.
We designed this workshop for people new to management or being considered for a management position. We look at for key areas for managing: managing relationships, managing problems, managing meetings and managing time. Examining participants’ understanding and experiences in this four areas, we surface the difficulties and best practices in these four areas.
We designed this workshop to help learners develop a deeper appreciation for dialogue as the preferred approach to addressing a wide variety of organization problems. The workshop makes a strong distinction between dialogue and discussion.
The workshop explores listening as downloading, factual listening, empathetic listening and generative listening.
Diagnosing the causes of conflict can be one of the most powerful analytic skills you can develop in conflict management. Understanding that conflict arises from three sources – conflict over facts, conflicts over interests, conflicts over behavioral expectations – offers us a huge advantage in knowing what solution path will likely produce positive results.
This highly interactive workshop lays out the recurring dynamic and shows how to avoid accidentally escalating the conflict and how to de-escalate the conflict should it occur. The steps for effective intervention are easy to understand and will make a significant difference in the arc of the conflict.
In this workshop, you will learn that your job is not to have the answers for these complex situations and then try to get others to “buy in” to your solutions. Your job is to facilitate a process where the people affected by the change are integral to creating the change solutions. This method helps decrease the passive-aggressive behaviors that are the bane of many unsuccessful change attempts.
