Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Leading With Heart. Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 14, 2014

Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. And, before you start to read the book, you can take (via a QR code in the book) a fifteen-minute online Step Up Leadership Assessment , which will give you instant feedback on your leadership readiness and point you to the most relevant chapters in the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the compelling book, Leading With Heart. Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. And, before you start to read the book, you can take (via a QR code in the book) a fifteen-minute online Step Up Leadership Assessment , which will give you instant feedback on your leadership readiness and point you to the most relevant chapters in the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling book, Leading With Heart. Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Yesterday, this tweet from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart got my attention! It is a simple, elegant way to train your attention while working online to keep mindful how you are spending your time. Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter).

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

Several of the book’s authors are associated with the Society of Academic CME (SACME) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In our interview, Dr. Hicken and I prompted Dr. Turco to discuss editorial decisions and specific chapters she felt deserved special call out for the readers of this blog. Mary G Turco, PhD .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2010

You’ll find lots of advice and tips from these experts: The authors include Jeff Brooks , Sarah Durham , Jocelyn Harmon , Kivi Leroux Miller , Mark Rovner , Nancy Schwartz , Chris Forbes , Alia McKee Scott and, of course, Katya Andresen. Allison Fine and I have contributed some tips from The Networked Nonprofit chapter on fundraising.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. And, before you start to read the book, you can take (via a QR code in the book) a fifteen-minute online Step Up Leadership Assessment , which will give you instant feedback on your leadership readiness and point you to the most relevant chapters in the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. And, before you start to read the book, you can take (via a QR code in the book) a fifteen-minute online Step Up Leadership Assessment , which will give you instant feedback on your leadership readiness and point you to the most relevant chapters in the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The author, Steve McClatchy, explains how to use the two forms of human motivation -- Gain, or Prevent Pain , to make more effective decisions. I particularly found useful the chapter on Managing Interruptions. Had it, I would have shared it with my co-worker. Decide is his first book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 17, 2014

The author, Steve McClatchy, explains how to use the two forms of human motivation -- Gain, or Prevent Pain , to make more effective decisions. I particularly found useful the chapter on Managing Interruptions. Had it, I would have shared it with my co-worker. Decide is his first book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. I dedicated one entire chapter to the dangers of embellishing a story to the point that you’ve stretched the truth too far, and how do you know how far is too far.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 8, 2011

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. Note: Thanks to the author for sending me an advance copy of the book. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 25, 2015

Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. And, before you start to read the book, you can take (via a QR code in the book) a fifteen-minute online Step Up Leadership Assessment , which will give you instant feedback on your leadership readiness and point you to the most relevant chapters in the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. And, before you start to read the book, you can take (via a QR code in the book) a fifteen-minute online Step Up Leadership Assessment , which will give you instant feedback on your leadership readiness and point you to the most relevant chapters in the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2015

Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. And, before you start to read the book, you can take (via a QR code in the book) a fifteen-minute online Step Up Leadership Assessment , which will give you instant feedback on your leadership readiness and point you to the most relevant chapters in the book.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators. Inform donors of breaking news and/or problems as soon as possible. . For example, at one organization where I worked, customer service was a full chapter in the employee handbook and people, with great pride, really took it to heart. . A helper, not a hinderer. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. I dedicated one entire chapter to the dangers of embellishing a story to the point that you’ve stretched the truth too far, and how do you know how far is too far.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. I dedicated one entire chapter to the dangers of embellishing a story to the point that you’ve stretched the truth too far, and how do you know how far is too far.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

note: This is the first in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. For more of Steve's thoughts on the book, check out his blog : he's writing about each chapter over 11 weeks. Let's say someone from our organization comes to us with a problem or need. How cool is that?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I started the keynote by reading a poem by Deanna Zandt, a friend and the author of Share This! I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. But, we have to train them!

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. We sent the first email, explaining the problem and our plan to fight it. His consulting and training practice centers on effective use of technology with a focus on the internet. www.johnkenyon.org.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And if that’s blowing your mind right now, it blew mine as well because I find texting to be something that’s a big problem for us in society, where we’re not able to emote and there are energies lost in translation, messages are lost in translation. . Those words I often use in my trainings with fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. You'll face that problem with any tool you ultimatley use. Analytics This!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. Then they end up not doing it, which I think is a big problem. It took me a few years to actually go through the training. I went through the training, I guess, six years ago. Who knew?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The post initially caught my eye because there was a quote from Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, co-authors of The Dragonfly Effect (I’m giving away a copy ). I posted a link on FB page and it prompted quite a discussion from nonprofit folks. The aforementioned Greater Greater Washington. They may be few, but it’s still early.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Now I’m in the office because nobody’s traveling and that’s not going to be a problem. These days I spend my time doing fundraising, teaching, training, and coaching with my own firm, Productive Fundraising. So love to teach and train and share the knowledge I have to take other organizations to the next level.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

For anyone who’s been my student or come to my trainings, I’m really focused on usable knowledge. And I wanted to say one more thing, which is that I am generally when I do teaching and training, I am always paying attention to the expressions on participant’s faces. It’s great to be inspiring, but I would.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls. These are in what I consider is the best chapter of the book The Essential HR Handbook , that she co-authored with Barbara Mitchell. Clustering everyone in the middle performance-rating categories 2.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

” So there should be one person who is trained and who is the person who does all of the donor data. So a lot of vendors like Bloomerang, I get a weekly e-mail, I think it’s on Fridays, with all the training that’s available for the database. So make sure that you actually train them. Do not set someone lose.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you have to leave early, no problem. But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. She’s got an awesome YouTube channel where she does a lot of free trainings as well. So look for an email from me later on with those.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so when we think of that step one, that goal setting, the goal setting is not the problem. But now, here’s the problem. But the problem was, he had never done that before. Now, we have to train the team, we have to train the board how to do this high ROI fundraising. So this is a math problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowds Can Not Be Trained Like Seals by Beth Kanter. Crowdsourcing Resources.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. In many institutions, these questions cause problems that cost both emotionally and economically. Contract design and traveling exhibitions add complexity; how are in-house staff involved when creative development and design happen somewhere else?

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

No problem. And my promise to you is that you will have three or four actionable items, tools, ways of communicating that you can implement today, right now, no problem, to start getting more response from your efforts and getting those problems. I know a lot of have you already introduced yourselves. That’s awesome.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And Derrick said, “Millennials are working to fix the problems they see in society using non-traditional methods without waiting around for anyone else’s approval or participation. They will find another way to solve the problem that they care about. They’re very solution-oriented more than organization-oriented.

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