Master Classes
JPro Master Classes are best-in-class, skill-based trainings in areas requested by our members. Advance your professional skills and connect with colleagues from across the diversity of our sector, with discounted access for JPro members.
Past Classes
Spotlight: Staying out of the Spider’s Web
Instructor: Deb Howard
When conflict arises between coworkers, they can pull in other people (often their manager) to fix the problem, fix the person, be the messenger, or be a sympathetic ear. Psychologists call this triangulation. This Spotlight Master Class will show you how to immediately and easily identify triangles in your work teams, and take positive steps to reduce the conflict, tension, and anxiety they can cause.
Spotlight: 8 Practices of Excellent Project Management
Instructor: Jessica Eastman Stewart
Learn the essential project management skills to define success, clarify roles and responsibilities, manage information, set realistic timelines, engage stakeholders, create templates, foster a great project culture, and close projects effectively.
Mindful and Effective Leadership
Instructor: Aaron Henne
Uncover your personal and professional priorities so that you can show up as your best self. You will develop the hard and soft skills you need to help you communicate clearly and articulate your vision to others in order to harness your full leadership potential.
Spotlight: Email Fundraising Magic
Instructor: Emily Goodstein, CEO + Founder, Greater Good Strategy
Learn best practices to format emails for maximum impact, ways to write emails so they produce results (read: donations), and recommendations to get your potentially anti-email colleagues on board with your new approach.
Spotlight: Canva for Beginners
Instructor: Eve Tyler
This beginner-level class will teach you how to elevate your design projects in Canva, so they consistently look polished and in line with your organization’s brand and mission.
Spotlight: LinkedIn Business for Jewish Nonprofits
Instructor: Andrew Exler
Learn the intricacies of LinkedIn’s audience, understand measures of success, and gain practical insights into leveraging LinkedIn Business for your organization.
Excel Cornerstones: Three Proven Skills to Reclaim 45 Minutes a Day
Instructor: Shir Aviv
Learn Excel shortcuts that will dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes you to complete your day-to-day tasks by mastering three cornerstone skills: navigation, formatting, and formulas.
Program Evaluation: Collecting Data and Surveying for Success with Rosov Consulting
Instructors: Dr. Frayda Gonshor Cohen, Managing Director & Allison Magagnosc, Senior Project Associate, of Rosov Consulting
How do you successfully measure the impact of your programs? In this Master Class, you will explore the purpose and benefits of successfully implementing a program evaluation, learn goals for data collection, and dive into survey design and question writing.
Spotlight: Managing Teams Through Difficult Times
Instructor: Amanda Silver
This Spotlight Master class will look at models and tools for navigating change and transition and explore how these can be used with teams as our sector continues to grapple with unprecedented challenges. Managers will gain a deeper understanding of their own reactions to stress so they can show up skillfully with their teams.
Disability Inclusion
Instructors: Meredith Polsky and Michelle Steinhart of Matan
Creating programs and experiences through a lens of inclusivity and accessibility from the outset, will not only create a more successful experience for your current constituents, but will quip your organization with the tools to expand your outreach to include people with diverse abilities. Establish a foundation of exploring disability inclusion through Jewish text, secular legislation in the United States, and the disability movement as a whole.
Spotlight: Managing With Emotional Intelligence: How to Increase Your Leadership Impact
Instructor: Amanda Silver
Managers and supervisors will learn to assess their Emotional Intelligence strengths and areas for development, learn individual practices to apply in their work, and gain practical tools to create emotionally intelligent teams
Spotlight: Crafting Your Story, Building Your Voice
Instructor: Jordan Namerow
Hone your storytelling skills with this Spotlight Master Class. Explore two storytelling frameworks to access language for what we love, what we fear, and what we have not been able to say or write about before, and leave with practical tips to hone your personal narrative, and new tools to consider using when you create your next blog, essay, speech, or op-ed.