VQ Strategies

JANUARY 13, 2023

In response to many requests, we have developed a facilitation guide for formal and informal book groups. Filled with warm-up activities, questions, and compelling quotes, the guide also prompts “concepts to action” so that participants can translate these ideas into action. That’s where book groups come in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s the list: Function.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The organization is active in government advocacy and technical standards, conducts national and regional educational networking conferences, and produces the Furnaces North America business exposition every other year. Identify Your True Value Tom’s vision isn’t crystal ball gazing. MTI initiatives are deeply informed by strategy.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. If you are facilitating the meeting you need figure out logistics like scheduling, materials, and effective use of technology for virtual meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory. Here’s my curated list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session. Basic Approaches.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

To adequately fulfill the three duties of a nonprofit board member —Care, Loyalty, and Obedience—a solid understanding of the organization’s financial activities is needed. Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. A director who can’t read your balance sheet, can’t be a great leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This was the first 90 minutes of the workshop, and while content and interaction kept in active learning mode — the next step was a synthesis. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.”

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. Sometimes an outside facilitator can move members forward more quickly. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Networked Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you think EI is a soft skill, one of those activities that requires maximum effort for minimum results, these statistics tell a different story. Actually, introducing EI is probably easier than more concrete activities, such as choosing a new software platform. However, like that puppy, EI is not a one-and-done sort of activity.

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John Kenyon

DECEMBER 4, 2023

PATHWAY + ACTIVITIES 1. Activities: Facilitating learning for the board, management and staff 2. Activities: Providing examples of how nonprofits use these tools, facilitating discussions on how your organization is already using them and might use them in the future 3.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

AI for Research and Collaboration Medical, scientific, and a myriad of other professions are being rapidly redesigned by AI’s ability to streamline all types of research activities. We’ll share real-world experiences and actionable insights. If this topic hasn’t lit your organization on fire yet, it will soon.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Analyzing website traffic, social media, product sales, and marketing campaigns together strengthens activities on both sides of the equation. Recognizing and rewarding mutually supportive activities and behavior. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Nonprofits now have a range of remote and hybrid events to choose between, and they can make the most of them thanks to platforms like PayBee that facilitate streaming and other digital tools. Now we’ve covered the underlying types of events you can choose between, let’s focus on the kinds of activities you can expect from these events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

When you have a portfolio management meeting on the calendar, it will drive ongoing attention and activity. Research time that doesn’t facilitate, spark, or lead to action in your donors and prospects isn’t time well spent, even when you have a little more time in your day. Set and commit to a next date of portfolio review.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

If your association is struggling to launch a strong diversity initiative, these activities will help you get closer to that goal. An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight. Articulate the Vision Writing the diversity statement can be a co-creative activity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Mary Joyce leads a session on digital activism using the Story of Electronics. Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

This year I will continue my commitment to creative activities including “ Journal as Altar ,” and calligraphy with fountain pens. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : I have continued to reach workshops on virtual and hybrid facilitation approaches, including asynchronous and flexible facilitation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. When a person feels self-efficacious, they are more likely to be proactive in signing up for other volunteer activities and feel more confident in their abilities to be an advocate for the nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ll also look at how popular fundraising activities can be adapted to these different galas and what online platforms you can use to help build a better fundraising strategy. However, this hinged upon adapting a fundraising events strategy that could adapt popular activities and events to online and hybrid venues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Technology facilitates much greater drilling down today, and you’re in danger of malpractice if you don’t use some of the new tools available. AI facilitates radical connection in a manner most directly aligned with individual identities, interests, and preferences. The right message to the wrong people? Both are crimes.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Pursuit of Influence sheds light on what motivates or deters organizations from taking an active role in public policy advocacy. That report found a substantial decrease in nonprofit advocacy and lobbying in the United States since 2000. Its key findings include: * Nonprofits play a vital role in representing people and communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2017

One of the biggest challenges that many nonprofits face is the finding time and resources for professional development activities. It also includes a toolkit with simple, grab and go learning activities that emerging leaders can do AS PART OF doing their work. Register now! The Emerging Leaders Playbook was curated with this in mind.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

According to a study from GWWC, a charity based in England and Wales, pledgers were better at identifying fearful faces, were more morally expansive and higher in actively open-minded thinking, need for cognition and two subscales of utilitarianism and, tentatively, lower in social dominance orientation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They explain that: " Leaders need to facilitate connections with their teams. Conduct team-building activities, both off-site and on-site. Today's great leadership advice comes from the recently released book, Thrive With A Hybrid Workplace , by Felice B. Ekelman, JD and Julie P. Kantor, PhD. Take a walk with an employee.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

This year I will continue my commitment to creative activities including “ Journal as Altar ,” and calligraphy with fountain pens. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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