Upcoming Webinars

Join Niche Academy CEO, Jeromy Wilson, for a clear look at what makes online training actually work—especially when you’re training staff, volunteers, or trustees with limited time and competing priorities. Jeromy will break down seven vital components that help learners stay engaged, understand what’s expected, and follow through—so more people complete the training and put it to use.

Are you struggling to find clarity, collaboration, and strategic alignment with your boss? Managing up is a vital skill, especially when you and your supervisor are both juggling long to-do lists. Join Emma Kieran to learn practical tools to help strengthen your relationship with your manager that will lead to effective communication, influencing upward, and anticipating leadership needs.

Mary Riddick shares how meaningful donor conversations create lasting partnerships. Using Waypoint's relationship-centered approach, you will develop the confidence and skills to engage donors as collaborative partners. Learn practical tools to build comfort and competence in navigating donor conversations, a framework to donor passions to your mission through authentic storytelling, and how to maintain momentum regardless of initial response.

With the potential loss of federal funding streams, grants, and stagnant or declining local budget funds, rural public librarians are constantly re-evaluating the services they provide to their communities. How do we prepare and prioritize critical programming, collections, and technology services to continue to provide access to information in rural areas? Jennifer Thiele will discuss some of the issues at hand, and how librarians have worked through them with budgetary shifts, partnering with support agencies, and advocacy campaigns.

Join Lu Bangura to transform your programming approach. Based on the groundbreaking strategies outlined in Unlocking Possibilities in the Library: Programming for the Future, this session provides practical, actionable techniques that you can implement immediately to create more impactful and sustainable programs. Whether you're looking to refresh existing programs or launch new initiatives, you'll leave with concrete strategies and a clear action plan for creating programming that truly serves your community's future.

Training often happens once—then consistency fades. If you’re onboarding staff or volunteers, rolling out policy updates, or trying to keep service standards steady, blended learning can help, but only if you design it with purpose.  In this democast, Niche Academy's Director of Customer Success, Ken Bonney, will walk through how to blend in-person and online training so each one does what it does best. Ken will share easy ways to provide training content before or after a live session—and simple ways to check understanding and track completion. You’ll leave with a clear guide you can use for your next training.

Accomplishing a specific outcome within a specific time frame has always been an objective for organizations. The use of project management tools and techniques to effectively manage resources is key in the ever changing landscape of resource limitations, technological enhancements, and shifting policies. In this webinar, Kirsten Clark provides opportunities to explore how right-sizing the effort to the project and organizational needs provides a more sustainable approach to project success. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to work through project planning and implementation that also fits the individual organizational project needs.

Every training has a purpose. If it didn't, there wouldn't be a need for training! So how can you communicate that purpose to your learners? With learning objectives! It takes more than a few words to help your learners succeed, though. Join Niche Academy’s Director of Learning Design, Jeremy “JT” Tuttle, to learn how to create effective learning objectives. JT will also demonstrate how you can match objectives to different features in the Niche Academy platform to measure learner progress and success.

Join Rebecca Hass and Steve Mangum in this webinar introducing the growing field of neuroarts—where neuroscience meets creativity and recognizes how creative artistic experiences shape the brain, reduce stress, strengthen social connection, and support lifelong learning. In a time when many library workers face high workloads, emotional labor, and rising community needs, neuroarts offers evidence‑based approaches to support staff well‑being and prevent burnout. You’ll learn how creative practices can regulate the nervous system, replenish emotional reserves, and create space for joy and resilience in the workplace.

Mission-driven organizations like libraries and nonprofits serve many groups, but do leaders and administrators take time to think about the different groups within their workplaces? Employee work perspectives and personal contexts shape work lives, but can be too nuanced to be captured by workplace climate surveys. Organizations should consider listening tours to learn from employees, in their own words, what is and is not working. Join Emily Mross and Carmen Cole as they discuss how they implemented a listening tour at their library. They will also provide information for conducting listening tours at other organizations.