Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Both by authors with first names of Brian. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

To cover up, some members have to attend training sessions during odd hours, which reduces contact, involvement, and attentiveness. It makes certain that training initiatives are in line with organizational goals, personal skill gaps, and various learning requirements. It further damages their motivation and general performance.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

To cover up, some members have to attend training sessions during odd hours, which reduces contact, involvement, and attentiveness. It makes certain that training initiatives are in line with organizational goals, personal skill gaps, and various learning requirements. It further damages their motivation and general performance.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

To cover up, some members have to attend training sessions during odd hours, which reduces contact, involvement, and attentiveness. It makes certain that training initiatives are in line with organizational goals, personal skill gaps, and various learning requirements. It further damages their motivation and general performance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. Give the speaker your full attention and keep an open, receptive mind.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are the top 10 e-learning challenges constantly faced by L&D professionals: Learner Engagement Most employees are simply too distracted, busy, or lack the necessary attention span to benefit from e-learning sessions. Innovative techniques like gamification and microlearning can help drive the learner’s engagement.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are the top 10 e-learning challenges constantly faced by L&D professionals: Learner Engagement Most employees are simply too distracted, busy, or lack the necessary attention span to benefit from e-learning sessions. Innovative techniques like gamification and microlearning can help drive the learner’s engagement.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are the top 10 e-learning challenges constantly faced by L&D professionals: Learner Engagement Most employees are simply too distracted, busy, or lack the necessary attention span to benefit from e-learning sessions. Innovative techniques like gamification and microlearning can help drive the learner’s engagement.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 9, 2024

As a fundraiser, your job is to understand the perspective of potential donors by shifting the lens of authentic attention via listening and open-ended questions — at the right place and at the right time — to become partners and allies in improving the world. Who is that person? When you fail, fail forward, and learn from others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

However, according to scientists who conducted experiments, that premise is false: a submerged frog gradually heated will jump out. In the nonprofit sector, resiliency is framed as both a leadership skill for nonprofit professionals as well as organizational capacity. Building Your Resilience Skills To Manage Workplace Stress.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Prioritize accessibility, inclusivity, and user experience (UX). completing a skills assessment during the same phase as the second round of interviews).

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Your nonprofit feels ready or has a clear need to bring in a skilled consultant, but how do you find the right one? . By partnering with a skilled practitioner who understands your needs and is familiar with the field, the proposal you ultimately create has a greater chance of success. Years of relevant experience in the field.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How can you connect with your donors despite all the other ads, social messages, texts, and emails that are vying for their attention? But value can also mean any experience or information that adds something to your donors’ day-to-day lives. You could also try teaching them a fun new skill. These techniques can help.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Business leaders know their venture lives and dies on its profit margins and they pay special attention to every factor that can influence that. Pro Tip : Try to establish where your skills, hard work, and dedication can be best applied. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I’m finding that my learning and online work is a fast forward, swimming in the stream experience. The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. If you attend, be ready to pay attention and take good notes. Here are 10 nonprofit conferences in 2023 and 2024 you shouldn’t miss!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. Just A Little Content To Get Started . Opening Exercise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. And I think that’s definitely true.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Sometimes we get one tool – one skill, one talent – and out of habit, we stick with it, never thinking about other tools we might need. It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. And you need to use the right tools.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. And I think that’s definitely true.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. High level of attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to balance/manage multiple simultaneous tasks on your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

Instagram, the mobile photography app, has been getting a lot of attention lately. It boils down the techniques to simply: Curate, Snap, Hashtag, Engage, and Repeat. Is your nonprofit experimenting with Instagram? This guide for business marketers is relevant to nonprofits. What have you discovered?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

JANUARY 14, 2019

Rapid technological developments over the past few years have left many nonprofit professionals scrambling to stay up-to-date with the newest tools and techniques without wasting time and money on passing fads. Overall, an emphasis on polished products and simple, engaging user experience has dominated 2018. Rapid Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Knowing how, when, and where to break down the system of responsibilities for your volunteers will determine the quality of their experience as well as the success of your events. Skills and experience. That being said, for being so essential, the volunteer scheduling process can be a bit of a pain. Personal interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

Supporters have a disjointed experience with an organization they care about because of organizational silos. It also takes paying attention to organizational culture or the way works gets done, in addition to deadlines and deliverables. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s more about giving participants a jump on applying it and guiding them so they can put it into practice as quickly as possible after the workshop. If you are designing and delivering training on any topic, here’s some things to think about to ensure that your participants have a transformative learning experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The structure of awareness and attention determines the pathway along which a situation unfolds. What are some practical techniques for practicing systems leadership skills? One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.” Step into someone else’s daily work experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

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? Understanding what holds people’s attention or breaks it can make the difference between delivering a session that is valuable or a waste of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). How do we assign causality (or should we?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

There are a number of benefits to embracing influencer marketing that can lead to increased donations, visibility, trust, and engagement: Your nonprofit can tap into their subject matter expertise, skills and get access to their professional network. Your nonprofit can co-create high quality content that is of value to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It is all about managing your attention. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. What you give your attention to, is what determines your experiences. In a nutshell, the advice is to spend time on the important tasks first and practice good delegation skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The first session focused on self-awareness skills. The second half used a communications style diagnostic called “ The Social Style Model ” which helps people learn how to improve their people skills by being able to understand their own communications style and those who are they are interacting with and then “flex.”

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