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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

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My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. It is a work in process and as a trainer you have to be open to learning and adapting. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. … Read More.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

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When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer?

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

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Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. His response: Looking: Observing human experience. Technique 2: Affinity Mapping.

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