The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In the words of James Kouzes and Barry Posner, authors of The Leadership Challenge : ” There’s nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can’t clearly articulate why we’re doing what we’re doing. ”. Effectively, a founder’s vision facilitates the decision-making process the team uses to create a company’s products and services.

Culture 146

Culture Articulate Mentoring Communication 146

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic.

Professional 117

Professional Build Nonprofit Facilitation 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy. Following this exercise, I facilitated an affinity map of the themes on the wall.

Foundation 104

Foundation Community Design Work 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing.

Professional 100

Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Reflection 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I look for patterns.

Professional 105

Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Journal 105

.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

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. This is not a forum for amateurs. If you don’t already have a diversity statement outlining your vision is an obvious step.

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Volunteer Professional 221

sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

We need to clearly articulate our north star, why we are going there, and what support we need to make it happen. We need to be able to articulate WHY so that our technology vendor partners can help us determine HOW. Developing Relationship-Based Practices Answering why is more challenging than you might imagine.

Impact 99

Impact Technology Grant Articulate 99

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It can reveal connections between novels you adore and foreign films youve never heard of, or help you articulate why certain stories stick with you while others dont. Claude Pro provided an excellent overview of the kinds of books Ive selected for the book group I facilitate over the past eight years.

Movie 70

Movie Music Doc Analysis 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

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. Certain people were encouraged to be involved in these groups to ensure that under-represented voices, especially from the southern hemisphere, were heard. ” Paul Connolly.

Open Source 92

Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing.

Professional 92

Professional Nonprofit Journal Facilitation 92

Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

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.

Skills 59

Skills Leadership Communication Develop 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : I have continued to reach workshops on virtual and hybrid facilitation approaches, including asynchronous and flexible facilitation.

Reflection 73

Reflection Professional Facilitation Nonprofit 73

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. No one should fall back on “that’s not my job” when it comes to passionately and proactively articulating your vision, mission, and values. It’s in your job description.

Philanthropy 136

Philanthropy Culture Fundraising Facilitation 136

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important. And I worry that we’re overemphasizing transparency about trivial matters and under-emphasizing transparency that really facilitates greater effectiveness. Required for foundations, the right thing to do.

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Effective Nonprofit Foundation 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

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.” I opted for a human centered design technique called “Concept Poster,” a presentation format that illustrate the main points of a new idea.

Activism 107

Activism Active Activities Integration 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. 2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.”

Professional 0

Professional Nonprofit Journal Reflection 0

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

A strong brand is important because it facilitates opportunities, resources and results. For this reason, it is necessary that the organization represent universal values and ethics codes, articulated to providing a high-quality service. An effective brand can be a positive influence on an organization’s assets (human and financial).

Effective 75

Effective Help Nonprofit Americorp 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I just finished the first day of a training on Network Effectiveness for Packard Grantees facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute. Guidelines should be articulated to participants in community guidelines. (Information shared behind this password protected area should not be shared with the mainstream media.).

Social Media 80

Social Media Guidelines Articulate Conversation 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It goes like this: The Crowd Leader: Combines new power leadership model with a commitment to, and articulation of, new power values.

Participatory 119

Participatory Nonprofit Leadership Skills 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

Pakistan 113

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

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.

Measure 105

Measure Learning Social Media Metrics 105

BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2014

Is your organization able to clearly and succinctly articulate its future direction and does it have a well-developed rationale for this development? As a facilitator, Molly is known for her ability to synthesize complex ideas and lead groups toward consensus. Here are some questions you might ask. Where are we going and why? –

Question 84

Question Strategy Nonprofit New Jersey 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Over the past five years, we’ve stumbled our way into social media.

Social Media 92

Social Media Community Culture Ning 92

NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

nonprofits and other service providers) can then bid on the opportunity using standard metrics that transparently articulate their cost per unit of “impact." And check out the full lineup of #14LCS speakers and facilitators ! governments, foundations) can put out an “ask” for a specific outcome (e.g.

Measure 96

Measure Impact Metrics Chicago 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. Organizational Culture. Finding the time to devote to measurement. Overwhelmed by data collection process.

Results 95

Results Data Nonprofit Social Media 95

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications.

Analytics 126

Analytics Strategy Fundraising Social Media 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake. For example, the Executive Leadership Team held knowledge that others in the organization did not have access to, so creating questions facilitating capturing their knowledge was important.

Knowledge 101

Knowledge Process Organization Share 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits.

Data 109

Data Help Nonprofit Measure 109

Qgiv

MAY 31, 2022

Whether I’m participating as a board member or facilitating a retreat for others, I’m lit up with anticipation as I get ready to attend a retreat. During the retreat, the board and other key leaders work together to articulate a shared vision for the future of the organization. Board retreats create an electric kind of energy for me.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Articulate Strategy Goal 52

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2024

To empower people to be the change they want to see, one must facilitate philanthropy. Clearly articulate our impact and results in order to attract social investing. Which is why I advocate a practice of “philanthropy, not fundraising.” Love, not money. Why are we fighting with donors? This means making giving easy, not hard.

Problem 104

Problem Nonprofit Philanthropy Charity 104

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Your organization is the facilitator of the relationship between the donor and the recipient. Janet thoroughly enjoys coaching executive directors, development staff, and board members as they analyze their reality, articulate their vision, and create a strategy to bring that vision to reality. Why do we always need to thank donors?

Attitude 68

Attitude Create Gift Donor 68

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

Too often, eager to fill a vacant seat or secure a well-known name, we fail to clearly articulate expectations of service to prospective board members, or downplay the expectations of service. “Board manuals can be a key resource in facilitating the work of a board member. Board Manual.

Fundraising 50

Fundraising Articulate Template Training 50

Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

These connections may be able to help facilitate a warm introduction with key contacts at potential companies. Be sure to articulate your goals of your fundraising event’s sponsorship. If you don’t have network connections at your list of target companies, don’t worry. In this agreement, be sure to align on the following: Goals.

Sponsor 98

Sponsor Fundraising Benefit Audience 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. I was also impressed with the report out, not only were they brief and to the point, but they were able to clearly articulate social outcomes in the social media strategy.

NGO 97

NGO Social Media India Reflection 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Iowa Teach Leadership 50

Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. Or a new donor responded with bigheartedness to an emergency appeal. . And that’s a shame.

Trend 137

Trend Strategy Fundraising Giving 137

Google Research AI blog

APRIL 6, 2023

However, when asked to elaborate, many have difficulty articulating this concept in a way that fully captures their experience. We analyzed the audio from each conversation and found that Project Starline facilitated significantly more dynamic "back and forth" conversations compared to traditional video conferencing.

Project 93

Project Communication Conversation Attention 93