Learning Hub
Explore a broad selection of e-learning courses and online training webinars, all of which are completely free to access.
Take a look at some of the featured courses below or browse all available courses here.
Personal Development:
- Work/Life Balance and Wellbeing: This course helps you prioritise self-care, reducing stress and improving your personal wellbeing, an often-overlooked aspect in conservation.
- Unconscious Bias: Understand and mitigate unconscious biases that affect your work, whether it’s related to gender, age, race, or other factors.
- Receiving and Seeking Feedback: Discover how to build a positive relationship with feedback, understand its significance, and overcome any apprehensions.
- Learning from Failure: Understand the importance of learning from failure and improve your team culture in recognizing and exploring failure.
- Persuading People: Gain the power of persuasion to influence donors, government officials, and other key stakeholders to support conservation initiatives.
Data Basics: Let’s explore the data world together with this comprehensive course.
- Demystifying data: Available in Bahasa Indonesia, English, Español, Français, ខ្មែរ, မြန်မာ, Português, Tiếng Việt
- Planning your data with the end use in mind: Available in Bahasa Indonesia, English, Español, Français, ខ្មែរ, မြန်မာ, Português, Tiếng Việt
- Good data: Available in Bahasa Indonesia, English, Español, Français, ខ្មែរ, မြန်မာ, Português, Tiếng Việt
- Managing data responsibly: Available in Bahasa Indonesia, English, Español, Français, ខ្មែរ, မြန်မာ, Português, Tiếng Việt
- Data basics – check your understanding: Available in English, Español, Français, ខ្មែរ, မြန်မာ, Português, Tiếng Việt
Team and Leadership:
- Team Development: Explore how teams evolve using Tuckman’s model, and learn techniques to advance your team’s growth. မြန်မာ, Español, Português)
- The Power of Support Networks: Learn the value of personal networks and how they can aid your development as a conservation leader.
- Managing Change: Explore your responses to change and develop strategies to lead your team effectively through transitions using Lewin’s change management model.(Español)
- Conflict Resolution: Develop conflict resolution strategies, understand sources of conflict, and learn principled negotiation.
- Motivating People: Discover strategies for motivating and energizing individuals in a conservation setting, even amidst its unique challenges.
- Giving Effective Feedback: Master the art of giving feedback with the CEDAR model, which provides a structured approach to constructive communication.
- Active Listening: Improve your listening skills and understand how active listening can enhance your effectiveness as a leader.
Project Management:
- Introduction to Safeguarding (Module 1). Learn how to define safeguarding, explain the relationship between power and risk of abuse and identify safeguarding risks.
- Introduction to Safeguarding (Module 2): Develop an Organisational Approach to Safeguarding, including roles and responsibilities.
- Introduction to Safeguarding (Module 3): Encouraging, reducing barriers and responding to Reports.
- Introduction to Safeguarding (Module 4): Use a self-assessment to identify where your organisation/team is on its safeguarding journey.
- Social Safeguards: Gain insights into the role of social safeguards in biodiversity conservation and how they contribute to fair and effective practices. (မြန်မာ, Español, Português, Tiếng Việt, Pусский)
- Introduction to Communications Strategies. Including how to structure a communications strategy, focus and save time, list your priority audiences and write key messages
- Gender in Conservation Projects: An introduction to gender in the context of conservation, including some suggestions on how you can promote gender equity within your projects. (NEW! Español)
- Outputs, Outcomes, Impacts, Oh My: Clarify project terminology and understand the differences between inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts for effective proposal writing.
- Good Fund Management: A comprehensive course covering contract and grant agreements, procurement, fund monitoring, and audit preparation.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Learn why engaging with community stakeholders is crucial for equitable conservation, and how to do it effectively. (NEW! Español, français)
- Grievance Mechanisms: Explore how grievance mechanisms can ensure fair and effective conservation activities. (NEW! Español)