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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The cocktail of comfort and anxiety you get when you benchmark yourself against your peers is just one of the many ways a social learning experience like a book club can help keep you interested and focused. Either the state-of-the-art changes too quickly for a book or an MBA program to keep up with.

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How To Learn Essential Business Skills For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The cocktail of comfort and anxiety you get when you benchmark yourself against your peers is just one of the many ways a social learning experience like a book club can help keep you interested and focused. Either the state-of-the-art changes too quickly for a book or an MBA program to keep up with.

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Taking a Deeper Look at the “Social” Piece of ESG (Environmental Social Governance)

sgEngage

From formal Diversity and Inclusion Programs to product responsibility and safety, the types of initiatives are wide-ranging. As I looked a little deeper into social justice issues that companies try to address with their programs, I found that these initiatives can look vastly different around the globe. Blackbaud is a global company.

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Taking Baby Steps with Social Media Measurement: Defining a Small Pilot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Training Your Employees is a Recession-Proof Strategy

Gyrus

Let us take a look at one case study: Siemens, a global technology company, quickly adapted to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing virtual employee training and development programs. Setting Clear Goals: Define specific, measurable, attainable objectives for each training program to ensure targeted growth.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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Training Your Employees is a Recession-Proof Strategy

Gyrus

Let us take a look at one case study: Siemens, a global technology company, quickly adapted to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing virtual employee training and development programs. Setting Clear Goals: Define specific, measurable, attainable objectives for each training program to ensure targeted growth.