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Recruit presenters.
SERIES Development PART ONE
Select webinar topics. Recruit Extension mentors. Request continuing education,
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professional development unit approval. Develop marketing and communications material. Promote the series.
sign-up spread- sheet. Presenters are also asked to sign up to serve as peer reviewers for their fellow presenters. Once presenters have committed to a presentation date, the CSS leadership team sends them Zoom invitations for the relevant meetings involved
Recruit Presenters This step begins at least two to three months before a series starts, to allow adequate time for presenter onboarding, topic selection, mentor matching, and series marketing. Presenters are recruited through a variety of methods, including the following: • targeted emails to faculty, requesting that they share the opportunity with their research trainees (graduate students and postdocs) • targeted emails to graduate student organi- zations (e.g. Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student Association) • virtual newsletters distributed campus-wide to graduate students (Grad Links) and faculty and staff (e-week) Members of the CSS leadership team meet indi- vidually with interested prospective presenters or, where possible, with groups of prospective presenters to share program goals and expecta- tions in more detail (see slide deck) and to answer prospective presenters’ questions. Once a research trainee commits to presenting, they are added to the CSS team on Microsoft Teams (the platform currently used to coordinate the program). This allows presenters to sign up for a presentation date and add the required information about their presentation (title, description, etc.) to the series
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Gather participant feedback.
in the webinar development process (their webi- nar session, slide review session, and slide review sessions for which they’ve agreed to serve as a peer reviewer). Select Webinar Topics The CSS leadership team works with presenters to select a theme and related topics for each webinar series, making sure there is sufficient variety in the topics. The topics are selected primarily from requests by previous series attendees and from suggestions made by student presenters. After each webinar series is complete, program leadership creates a wrap-up document that summarizes the list of presenters, topics, dates, attendance, feed-
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