Webinars

When the Numbers Don’t Add Up: Retaining Talent with Purpose, Not Just Pay

School systems nationwide are navigating a perfect storm of financial and staffing challenges. While some districts are managing to offer double-digit pay increases, others are grappling with declining enrollment, slowing per-pupil funding, and rising costs—especially in salary, benefits, and operations. Charter schools are feeling the impact even more acutely, as budget constraints tighten and the competition for talent intensifies. In today’s climate, attracting and retaining top talent requires more than just salary increases—it demands a strategic, equity-centered approach.

In this recording you will learn:

• How to lean into different areas of your total value proposition to increase staff satisfaction and retention
• The importance of understanding your talent strategy and designing a total rewards programs that help you keep the talent you need
• Strategies to support staff and build trust and loyalty through engaging, assessing and growing staff

From Risk to Resilience: a Nonprofit's Guide to Sustainable Restructuring

Learn how to approach restructuring with clarity, strategy, and resilience. Leaving this webinar, you will be able to…

• Assess and Strengthen Your Funding Resilience – Learn how to evaluate your organization’s funding risks, diversify revenue streams, and reduce dependency on a few major donors to ensure long-term financial stability.
• Prepare for Uncertainty with Strategic Planning – Discover how to create financial scenario models, right-size expenses, and align staff skills with organizational needs to navigate funding challenges effectively.
• Turn Insights into Actionable Strategies – Walk away with practical tools and frameworks to assess funding risk, optimize resources, and build a proactive financial strategy that supports your mission, even in uncertain times.

The Culture-Performance Connection: Shaping Teams for Strategic Impact

Join experts from Edgility Consulting and Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies for an insightful discussion on how organizational culture, grounded in shared values, directly impacts team performance and drives strategic outcomes. Learn how aligning culture with performance management systems can foster healthy, engaged teams, especially through the lens of belonging and inclusion. This webinar will explore actionable strategies for nonprofits, public sector organizations, and philanthropy to prioritize culture and create more inclusive environments.

Start the year with a fresh approach to organizational culture and employee management that nurtures people and performance.

Retain Top Talent: Flexible Benefits that Work

The webinar covers the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders, legal requirements, and best practices for ensuring internal equity, market competitiveness, and fiscal responsibility. You’ll gain valuable insights to develop fair and flexible benefit packages—because compensation and benefits designed for mothers benefit us all.

From this webinar, you will be able to:

• Design a Comprehensive Benefits Plan
• Adopt an Equity-Driven Benefits Strategy
• Implement Flexible Benefits to Boost Retention

Total Rewards: Effective Compensation Packages for Nonprofit Leadership

Edgility partnered with Marsh Mclennan Agency to explore key components of executive compensation, including base salary, additional cash compensation, and benefits. We’ll cover the roles and responsibilities of the key stakeholders (board, CEO, and HR), alongside legal requirements, and best practices for internal equity, market competitiveness, and fiscal responsibility. You will gain valuable insights to develop fair, competitive, and compliant compensation packages for your nonprofit’s executives.

In this webinar, you will explore:

• Comprehensive Compensation Packages
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Best Practices for Compensation

Solutions for Scale: Pioneering Compensation Structures in Small Organizations

Edgility Consulting partnered with LTD Global to delve into the distinct hurdles small organizations encounter in crafting equitable compensation programs. Watch to explore how limited infrastructure, fluctuating budgets, and hybrid roles pose unique challenges. Discover strategies to build a salary framework that fosters fairness, supports growth, promotes retention, and propels your organization forward.

In this webinar, you will learn: 

• The challenges that small businesses face when determining and setting salaries
• The core pillars of equitable compensation program design
• The benefits of designing a salary structure early in the organizational trajectory

Rethinking Compensation: Ensuring Equitable Salaries After One-Time Funds Run Out

The Great Resignation exacerbated a growing teacher shortage driven by low salaries and burnout. One-time funds have helped to address some staffing challenges, but their limited nature has created unsustainable expectations for continual comp increases. Join us for insights into developing a competitive and equitable salary structure to drive hiring and retention and stay competitive in this topsy-turvy economic landscape.

Takeaways:

• Understand why teachers stay or go (SPOILER ALERT: It’s not just salaries!)
• Learn how thoughtful compensation strategies can make your school a destination for top talent
• Gain insight into financial challenges and labor trends that will impact your 2023-24 school budget decisions

Disrupting Wage Gaps: Aligning the Market & Your Values

Do you want to align your organization’s social justice values with your compensation programs, but are unsure of where to start?

Learn how to:

• Develop a compensation program that mitigates wage gaps
• Provide clarity and transparency employees and candidates
• Set up hiring managers and HR teams to consider equity implication

Walking the Talk with Promotions: Can I retain high performers without promising promotions?

Every leader knows the value of retaining high performers, but it often feels impossible because there aren’t lots of opportunities for staff to move into new roles. How can you lean into your values of learning, growth and continuous improvement if you can’t offer people new title shifts? And what’s the risk of finding new jobs for people when they’re ready to move onto something new?

Tune in to chat about

• The definition of “promotion readiness”
• The manager’s role in setting staff up for promotions
• The organization’s role in clarifying promotion pathways

Walking the Talk with Bonus Culture: Is my recognition strategy broken?

Many organizations budget for bonuses, but aren’t getting the ROI they had hoped for. If you’re curious about whether a bonus culture is a good fit for your organization, this session is for you.

Participants will unpack

• Your current philosophy on rewards & recognition 
• Missed opportunities to recognize staff without straining your budget  
• Strategies to pull managers into your recognition program

Walking the Talk with Merit Pay: What are my options for equity-driven performance based pay?

Many of our clients are getting clearer about the way they value performance. Fundamentally they believe that staff who contribute more should make more money…but how do we articulate that? And more importantly, does it match our values?

Join us to learn

• Key indicators that your evaluation system that can be linked to pay
• How to connect the dots to behaviors you want to incentivize
• The benefits and tradeoffs of various performance pay scenarios

Navigating Employee Impact of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation

Join Edgility for a discussion led by our LGBTQIA+ ERG that will focus on best practices for gender equity and how to navigate LQBTQIA+ employee rights in a tumultuous landscape.

We will explore the following

• Internal Practices for Employees
• External Practices for communities they serve
• Navigating the changing landscape of state legislation

Succession Planning: How to Prepare for Your Next Leader

With a large amount of organizations seeing changes at the leadership level post-Covid, being prepared to weather a leadership change is vital to maintain operations and support staff. During this webinar Allison Wyatt and Jonathan Howard and will discuss the key pieces to begin your preparation.

They’ll share frameworks and steps for:

• Assessing and preparing internal talent
• Identify talent gaps in your organization
• Making your board attractive for prospective talent

Building an Inclusive Benefits Package

Join Edgility benefits expert, Jennifer Svendsen, Ph.D., to learn about which benefits will help your organization stay competitive when hiring, keep your staff engaged and serve employees from ALL identity backgrounds.

In this webinar we will discuss:

• Equitable benefits for LGBTQIA2S+ staff members
• Benefits best practices
• Overall benefits trends in the non-profit sector

Reimagining Performance Reviews: How to Center Equity in Performance Management

Bias can play a significant role in performance management and can impact the employee experience.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Build a performance management program that centers equity and growth
• Ensure staff trust and leverage the process to help them meet performance expectations
• Enable your people managers to become better coaches for their direct reports