Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And then theres Good Inside , which has become a go-to resource for parents seeking guidance and advice from expert coaches, along with a robust online community. The app gives busy parents on-demand access to scripts and other personalized guidance, drawing on Kennedys expertise and advice from other parenting coaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Many of the techniques are now possible and within the next decade, just-in-time learning will likely become a cultural norm in nonprofits and elsewhere. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. Put e-learning on the agenda.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

In their interactions with hierarchies, members of networks can act in the following roles." We talked to a few experts and condensed their advice into this article. However, these two alternative structures of human organization can interact in a variety of ways, both mutually beneficial and destructive.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Leaders relied on the consultant’s advice and, to her credit, the managing-up approach worked — until it didn’t. There is a tired cliché that goes, “Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach teachers.” What manager accepts the role of gatekeeper when there are roadblocks with the consultant?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

" Be A Role Model of Generosity. Parents and relatives are the best role model for their kids in sharing generosity, that is,generosity is passed on from generation to generation." Another great way to teach kids about charity is to engage them in buying or donating something that they are familiar with--toys!

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. And my role at The New York Times was building on that type of work as well. Tell me how you got here. And before we end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. Next, we did a role-play.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. STEM educators are increasingly taking on dual roles: those of instructors not only in their field of expertise but in computer fundamentals as well. His advice to fellow educators: Get ready.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Plus, you can still make your virtual opportunities hands-on by giving participants an active role in driving your mission forward. Ensure you thoroughly explain what each role involves and create fun role descriptions to get volunteers interested and prepared! Volunteers play an important role in any nonprofit organization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Before Tracy Young was co-founder and CEO of TigerEye, she held the same roles at construction productivity software startup PlanGrid. Young looks back at “five key failure points” that are common potholes on every founder’s path and shares tactical advice for addressing internal conflict, losing product-market fit and other stumbles.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. In that role, Pawelski prepares thousands of J-1 and other non-immigrant visa applications each year, but he says he has only seen waivers granted to Fulbright scholars a few times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Reilly, this is the book for brushing up on your leadership skills or learning what to do in your new leadership role. His advice? Plus, there are five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. I found the teachings about asking questions as a newcomer particularly useful.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

market: A home testing kit that enables program participants to learn how their body responds to different foods and get personalized nutrition advice. market: A home testing kit that enables program participants to learn how their body responds to different foods and get personalized nutrition advice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Best-selling author Brian Tracy's book, Full Engagement , provides practical advice for how to inspire your employees to perform at their absolute best. He explains that above nearly every measure, employees' most powerful single motivator is the "desire to be happy."

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2021

Today’s question comes from a donor relations manager who needs advice on how to best organize, prioritize, and stay on top of tasks. . Endeavor to get greater clarity on your role, responsibilities, and personal mission. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Keep those ears open.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

Let me tell you: nothing brings an excited-but-shy person out of their shell quicker than having a role to play! And, co-organizer Ivan Boothe is an excellent role model and all-around Awesome Dude. We teach this. I used to help teach social media classes at Portland’s tech reuse and education nonprofit, Free Geek.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2011

Best-selling author Brian Tracy's newest book, Full Engagement , provides practical advice for how to inspire your employees to perform at their absolute best. He explains that above nearly every measure, employees' most powerful single motivator is the "desire to be happy".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. So, what's my role in all of this? What do you think?

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DataRobot

JULY 13, 2021

One survey on the role of marketing found that 89 percent of companies expect to compete mostly on the basis of customer experience , up significantly from 36 percent just four years ago. Teach your AI to recognize when customers are emotional and train it to adapt its responses. Customer experience is the new marketing battleground.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Ryan has written on the concept of the “ glass cliff ,” a form of gender discrimination in which women are placed in leadership roles at times when institutions are at their greatest risk of failure. Cooper says although the tool is a “joke on the surface,” systems like this could have serious applications in teaching and study.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

Reilly, this is the book for brushing up on your leadership skills, or learning what to do in your new leadership role. His advice? Plus, there''s five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Edited by Edward T.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

On taking on the "tech leader" role more purposefully: At my last performance review, I requested and was granted a change of official job title from "Public Relations Coordinator" to "Public Relations and Technology Coordinator. we'd love to hear your story and your advice to others.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 7, 2013

After 22 years in the fields of volunteer program management and nonprofit administration, I’m often asked by colleagues in the sector for advice on how they can improve the volunteer program in their organization. She currently teaches NMI 104: Managing Staff and Volunteers for the ASU Lodestar Center. Like this article? Get another!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. I found the teachings about asking questions as a newcomer particularly useful.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2020

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Honesty and Integrity. Compassion. Persistence and Consistency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Finally, Temte devotes an insightful section in his book on organizational trust and returning to the office after COVID-19 , by offering advice for how to do so strategically, compassionately and by changing how we think about a new norm. Create and communicate clarity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Finally, Temte devotes an insightful section in his book on organizational trust and returning to the office after COVID-19 , by offering advice for how to do so strategically, compassionately and by changing how we think about a new norm. Create and communicate clarity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 21, 2013

Asking for their advice and input through focus groups and short on-line surveys tells them that you care about what they think. Sometimes you actually should pick up the phone instead of emailing, e-blasting or Tweeting! And there''s always the wonderful hand-written note. Nothing says that you are thinking about someone quite like that.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2021

Reilly, this is the book for brushing up on your leadership skills, or learning what to do in your new leadership role. His advice? Plus, there's five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Reilly, this is the book for brushing up on your leadership skills, or learning what to do in your new leadership role. His advice? Plus, there are five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career.

Leadership 52

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Reilly, this is the book for brushing up on your leadership skills, or learning what to do in your new leadership role. His advice? Plus, there's five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Edited by Edward T.

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Roundtree

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Marketing and communications play an increasingly important role in the growth of faith-based organizations. Mission Increase’s program teaches ministries to embrace and deploy a biblical approach to fundraising so that ministries are more fully achieving their God-given missions and engaging more of God’s people in their work.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

While conversations around digital storytelling often focus on images and video, Will Coley of Aquifer Media reminded us that sound is essential in his session What Public Radio Can Teach Nonprofits about Effective Storytelling. Danny started with why video matters (4 billion hours spent on YouTube each month!) Go for the Gut.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. I found the teachings about asking questions as a newcomer particularly useful.

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