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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. All ideas are as valid as each other.

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Understanding what vision means in a ‘visionary founder’

The Next Web

Because I know how confusing and frustrating the fundraising process can be for a founder, one of the topics I like exploring is “How to get into the mind of an investor” – particularly when an investor is evaluating you for an investment. A founder’s vision is the foundation of a company’s culture and brand.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. His areas of expertise are philanthropic effectiveness, strategic planning, organizational capacity building, evaluation, and social enterprise. ” Paul Connolly.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS

Gyrus

Strong workplace communication is necessary to develop leadership skills, improve professional growth, facilitate collaboration, reduce conflicts and misunderstandings, and boost employee engagement. Organizations must invest in good learning management systems (LMS) to facilitate effective communication training.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. While evaluation surveys are great, they are only one form of feedback. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.” How do you incorporate ways for participants to synthesize their learning?

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. Articulating measurable goals. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media.

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