Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 3, 2025

When Everyone Leads , by Ed OMalley and Julia Fabris McBride , presents a revolutionary approach to leadership; not based on position or authority, but an activity that anybody can undertake by learning to spot opportunities for improvement and taking the initiative to engage others. Leadership is interactive, risky and experimental.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

It gives brands authenticity, authority, and a dose of highly contagious excitement. That’s the beauty of thought leadership. Thought leadership is an old idea that has been made new again. Thought leadership is a powerful way to engage an audience that prefers to be educated versus sold to.

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Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

In this article, Kristin Hanlin, an instructional designer at Candid, explores how nonprofits can utilize Instructional Design principles to develop training that engages, empowers, and educates the learnerincluding volunteers. What would quality training for volunteers look like? How can nonprofits foster the next generation of volunteers?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

This is why open, ongoing conversations between leadership and employees are essential. Some individuals thrive on new challenges and leadership opportunities, while others value better work-life balance, financial recognition, or deeper involvement in projects they truly care about. Motivation isn’t one-size-fits-all.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While it’s difficult to imagine a stable workforce during a time of labor shortages, your organization can help to ensure uninterrupted processes and continued missional impact by developing a robust job succession planning strategy. Any type of job succession plan involves proper segregation of duties through cross-training and redundancies.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

The layoffs were authorized via an amendment to the companys restructuring plan, which aims to see the company cut costs. To maintain and extend this leadership, we are shifting resources across our GTM, Platform, Industry, and Corporate functions to accelerate investments in these strategic priorities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you are a NPO development pro, there are a few things we know about you for sure: The world needs more benevolence creators like you, and you are driven to serve others, ease suffering, and bring hope to the world. Follow these best practices used by development pros all over the world and your event will be geared for success. ?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

jobs, [the] majority of them have considered how that position or that job can help them with their student loan debt, says the reports author and MissionSquares head of research, Zhikun Liu. This research suggests the added burden inspires them to pursue more professional development and educational credentials.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Just as Amazon uses AI to suggest products you might like, associations can use AI to recommend relevant professional development courses, connect members with similar interests, or highlight industry news that matters most to each member.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Without good leadership, everything falls apart. Without leadership, a small nonprofit may never reach its full potential.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

“Too often company leaders view middle managers in a negative light as expendable employees who can slow down productivity and overall strategy,” explain the book’s authors and McKinsey partners Bill Schaninger , Bryan Hancock , and Emily Field. Build their organization’s knowledge and realign it with shifts from digital disruption.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

posted by Nico Marcolongo Fall 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. These realities require leadership capable of allying highly autonomous and dispersed workforces into a united effort. Leadership requires cultivating healthy inter-personal relationships based on mutual trust. Authentic engagement.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As Immigration status For individuals who are not citizens, or who are not authorized to work in the US, their immigration status can create additional barriers to social mobility.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Edinger , author of the new book, The Growth Leader. Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. His book explains why that is true. After all, you are leading people.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We know this from researchers like Penelope Burk (author of Donor-Centered Fundraising ), who found in study after study across the U.S. A terrific development director can move the needle. Whats remarkable for any given charity or donor will vary, but give it some thought and develop a written plan.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Secretary of Homeland Security Jacob Wood Co-Founder & Executive Board Chairman Team Rubicon Team Rubicon became one of the most impactful nonprofits under Wood’s leadership. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. She also was a senior adviser on finance and development at the U.S.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 15, 2022

You owe it to your members to develop a thought leadership-driven culture at your association. When you take the time to develop well-researched thought leadership content, you’ll boost organizational awareness and increase member retention. How to foster a culture of thought leadership. Attend association events.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Even when you love your job, without the right support, it’s easy to experience symptoms of leadership fatigue like these. Solutions Day is the perfect antidote to leadership fatigue. It is a networking and development organization that connects executives with education, research, ideas, and people. leadership.

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 6, 2025

They say leadership is about authority and tenure. I say leadership is about impact and transformation. At the Global Author Summit 2025, I

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

From the book, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , comes this useful checklist from author H. James Dallas for how to identify and develop emerging talent in your company/organization. Dallas recommends that each question should be graded on a scale of 1 to 3, with 3 being the best.

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.orgSource

MAY 9, 2023

Create a nimble development process. Approaching product development with the outcome designed before it’s been market tested is too rigid and slow. The MVP frees developers to ask the important questions. It is the brainchild of Eric Ries , author of that entrepreneur’s bible, The Lean Startup. Respect every idea.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At the same time, we’re recognizing that the authors of these articles have helped thousands of nonprofits by giving their work certified “gold” status, and giving them the chance to update or provide a new introduction to their classic articles.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Fisher , author of the new book, To The Top: How Women In Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting The Rules For Success. “We Throughout the book, current executives and aspiring leaders will gain insight and understanding into the future of great leadership.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to encourage their Development Director to take meetings with major donors. . Dear Charity Clairity, Every time I attend a conference or webinar on the subject of major donor development I learn about the importance of meeting with major donors in person.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

As a professional in the nonprofit sector, you can absolutely still work to be the best you can be, developing your personal and professional skills and advancing your career along the way. Here at the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance, we’ve dedicated ourselves to professional development in the nonprofit sector. Online courses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

If you’re curious about the cost of turnover in your own organization, the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance has a free turnover calculator you can use. Many leaders – 60% – worry their organization’s leadership lacks a plan and vision to implement AI properly.*

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Her background as a therapist and emotions researcher informs her unique approach, weaving evidence-based neuroscience and psychology with professional development. She is the author of Trust Yourself. Build trust with leadership! Whats the big idea? Anticipate their needs! Make them look good! Be proactive!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new book, The Journey of Leadership , brings the experience of one of the world’s most influential consulting firms ( McKinsey & Compan y ) right to your fingertips. “We The authors assert that if you are a traditional left-brained leader who’s great at numbers, planning and scheduling, your job might be threatened in the future.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Develop a screening procedure in “normal” times to make crisis screening easier. Identify the Leadership Potential of Your Volunteers In a natural disaster, you need skilled, capable volunteers to manage tasks and other volunteers. Interviews should be followed by safety training and onboarding for each volunteer.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. So, again, it’s board roles and fundraising and resource development. I’ve worked in direct services, operations and executive leadership. .

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

Access Control: Robust user authentication and access controls are crucial to safeguard sensitive information, course content, and user accounts to ensure that only authorized individuals can access the LMS and its resources. Develop comprehensive policies and procedures to address these areas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Each year, I select my pick for the best new leadership book released that year. Some years, among the many books about leadership that I read, there is another book that is so good, it becomes my runner up for the best new leadership book of the year. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Stanford Medicine leadership has since apologized and promised to re-evaluate the plan. “We Our intent was to develop an ethical and equitable process for distribution of the vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized two COVID-19 vaccines for use in the US.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

In truth, doing hard things and making difficult decisions is often the most compassionate thing to do,” explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way. The authors recommend you: Remember the Golden Rule Put yourself in their shoes. Listen intensively.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

She is also the author of Courageous Communication: How Codependence Is Making Your Nonprofit Brand Boring and What to Do About It. One way to grow your online presence and your nonprofit’s reputation is through thought leadership. By Maryanne Dersch , a speaker, coach, and creator of the Superstar Fundraising Academy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Within the workplace there are Contributors and Impact Players each representing a distinct way of working the first leads to a job well done while the other carves a path to true leadership and generates immense value. While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out. Partnering with Stallard on Connection Culture are authors Jason Pankau and Katharine P Stallard.

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