Increase Your Research Funding
Color team reviews improve your proposal and increase your chances of getting funded.
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Are you tired of writing proposals that are rejected without review?
You waste your valuable time when you write proposal after proposal without seeming to make progress toward an award.
Writing proposals that are not awarded can lead to:
- Exhaustion. It is challenging to continue to pour your heart into something that fails to get recognized.
- Stalled progress. Research careers can't advance without funding.
- Lack of motivation. There is only so much time in the day - why waste it on writing proposals that aren't hitting the mark?
Most proposal writers learn through practice and modeling others - but never spend the time to approach their work as a reviewer. Understanding this perspective can strengthen your response.
You can keep writing. The hunt for funding is a real hunt. Color teams can help you get more done and do it better.
Color Team Reviews Can Get You There
Color team reviews allow proposal writers to quickly identify the right program, messaging, and persuasive text that grabs the reviewer's (and funder's) attention.
Spend less time flailing and more time getting the award.
Introducing
Color Team Reviews
At the end of this course, you will gain a repeatable internal proposal review plan that can be implemented immediately for any proposal to any funder.
This means that every proposal will count.
Using a guided workbook and step-by-step instruction, you will learn how to use color team reviews to evaluate funding opportunities, draft compelling proposal text, and ensure institutional buy-in — transforming your proposal into awards.
The course provides video instruction followed by a workbook.
Our goal is to provide you with the foundational knowledge and accessible tools so that you can use them again and again to design and run effective color team reviews.
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Praise for Color Team Reviews
"A great fundamental Research Development skills class that has tremendous value for faculty and those on the Research Administration (RA) side."
– Jill Jividen, PhD, Associate Vice President of Research Development, University of Michigan
"I really liked the psychological aspect to the questions asked in the workbook for the Color Team lessons. They asked me to deeply consider the content and apply it to my own institution."
– Deputy Director of Research at a Texas Research 1 University
What is Your Research Leadership?
Faye Farmer founded Your Research Leadership specifically to empower research support staff and research active faculty to achieve their full professional potential. Leadership in research is both strategic and tactical. These on-demand, skill-building courses blend the “how” with the “why” of research development. She teaches you processes honed from over 15 years of supporting hundreds of teams with millions of dollars of proposals. All to help you see immediate results. If you’re ready to move from doing all the things to driving meaningful change, this is your next step.
Who teaches this course?
Faye Farmer is a certified proposal manager who established the color team review process at her university. The course reviews several colors that have been adapted to an academic environment - translating industry speak. Over the course of a decade, she was the first to introduce and run all five of the color teams presented in this course (blue, pink, green, red, and gold). This course is the only online course that provides detailed steps and expectations for each color so that faculty or research staff can immediately implement what they learn.
What’s Inside Color Team Reviews?
This course goes over all the steps of designing, holding, and prioritizing input from five different color team reviews.
Through engaging short videos and a step-by-step worksheet, you will learn just how powerful a color team review can be. The course includes:
Color Team Processes
We review the fundamentals that every color team possesses, taking time to understand how the process can be implemented and when.
Blue Team
We review how to evaluate a proposal opportunity before you start writing proposal text and strategically set the stage for success with others.
Pink Team
Once there is early proposal text, we consider the structure and function of that text in creating a compelling story for the reader.
Green Team
Incorporating review of budgets and ancillary documents ensures that the proposal can accomplish what it says.
Red Team
When you have an almost final draft of the proposal, you have to prioritize the changes that make the biggest difference in getting funded.
Gold Team
We learn how to use the final review to garner institutional or leadership approval and smooth the way for award.
This course provides a clear, repeatable review process, so that you gain confidence aligning your ideas with funder expectations, creating proposals with compelling impact.
At Your Research Leadership, we are passionate about delivering essential training for research staff, faculty, and leaders so that they can unlock their professional potential.
Join the waitlist to claim the introductory price of $149 (a $199 value).
Here’s what’s coming in Color Team Reviews
In-depth video lessons that will give you the knowledge, skills, and abilities to complete an effective color team review that is right sized for your proposal and institutional context, including:
- Understand the essential components of each color team review - and how to adjust them to meet your particular goals
- Create a plan for implementing one or more color team reviews
- Identify they types of individuals who should serve as supporters of the review as well as who should be considered as reviewers for each color
- Understand the ins and outs of five color teams that have been used successfully to secure millions of dollars in academic research funding