The way your organization functions internally is just as important as the work you do out in the world.
It is critical for leaders to understand the level of intention and time it takes to cultivate strong management skills and to be an advocate for current and future staff. From equitable hiring practices to inclusive PTO (Paid Time Off) policies, a more human-centered employee experience cultivates increased belonging and a better work experience for the wonderful humans doing the work.
This learning guide includes essential management tools, HR policies and protocols, and culture-building resources to support a more inclusive and equitable work environment for staff.
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TREC’s learning guides serve as your personal tour guide to our expansive free resource library. Each guide allows you to quickly explore a curated group of resources, webinars, or topical collections on a specific subject to help you dive in.
Supervision Essentials
This collection provides a framework of five core elements of management, systems, and behaviors to develop a culture of feedback in your organization, and practical tools for delegating and decision making that help create transparency and clarity within your organization.
Addressing Compensation with Clarity and Confidence
We’ll walk through the essential steps and show how a step-by-step process results in better compensation practices and maintaining and improving morale and staff retention. This webinar is designed for those who are part of addressing compensation at an organization.
Compensation Design Workbook
This workbook outlines the essential steps to design (or re-design) your organization’s compensation. Use this to customize a right-sized process for your organization to set fair, transparent compensation that builds trust across your team and board.
Managing Staff Transitions with Care, Clarity, and Compassion
Nonprofit workplaces often carry deep relational ties and high emotional stakes. When a difficult personnel decision regarding staffing becomes necessary, leaders can feel overwhelmed, uncertain, and concerned. This webinar provides…
Staff Transitions Handbook
When a difficult personnel decision regarding staffing becomes necessary, leaders can feel overwhelmed, uncertain, and concerned. This workbook provides the clarity, tools, and confidence to navigate terminations and layoffs in a way that is ethically grounded and aligned with your organization’s values.
Supervising with Confidence: Setting You and your Staff Up for Success
In this webinar, we’ll explore a five-step process for supervision that sets you up for success. We’ll unpack how to create a foundation of clear expectations and mutual accountability, reduce assumptions and uncertainty, and share simple, pragmatic tools like work-plans and regular standardized check-ins.
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Management Tools
Managing Conflict
This collection is for managers and supervisors interested in improving how they navigate conflict among staff. An attentive, empowered, and skilled supervisor can increase staff’s conflict management skills, increase a group’s effectiveness, and strengthen a team’s feelings of respect, trust, and belonging.
Work Plans | Sample & Template
Work plans are essential for setting employees up for success- they bring clarity to expectations, enrich feedback and review processes, and help align each staff member’s work with the overall operating plan of your organization.
Building Engaged Virtual and Hybrid Teams: Communication Practices and Strategies
This webinar will explore communication practices and strategies that set leaders and organizations up for success in managing hybrid or virtual teams.
Delegation & Decisions
Delegating Resources & Tools
Use this as a guide to help you determine where and how you can delegate some of your tasks and projects to keep your time focused, build staff capacity, and otherwise strengthen the management of your organization.
DARCI Decision Making Model
The DARCI Model clarifies your organization’s decision making process by explicitly naming who is involved in decision making.
Empowering Excellence: Using Delegated Decision-Making to Deepen the Creativity & Engagement of Your Team
Delegated decision-making is a powerful way to support staff agency and to delegate power and authority in meaningful ways throughout the organization. This webinar will cover the basics of effective delegation, and also the core tenants of the advice process; a step-by-step process for delegating decision making to those most impacted.
Equitable Compensation
TREC Salary Survey & Reports
2025 Salary & Benefits Reports Thank you to all of our participating organizations in the TREC 2025 Salary & Benefits Survey! Each survey participant’s organization will receive the 2025 Salary…
Salary Survey Report Findings
This session will provide an overview on the salary and benefits data compiled in the 2022 TREC Survey, as well as information on how to use total rewards survey data effectively.
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