Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Now, without any more ado, we share the following words and phrases for our annual discussion. Today, some people who are neurodivergent or have intellectual disabilities continue to perceive the “storm” element of the word as violent or negative, while the “brain” aspect places too much emphasis on intellectual ability. Illiterate.

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Literacy Alternative Language Culture 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally. .” Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced.

Professional 116

Professional Management Journal Reflection 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

Skills 96

Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane.

Finland 99

Finland Learning Brain Classroom 99

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Here is one of the complete drafts it generated for our example… What writing models/skills does Fundwriter.ai is the growing library of writing models(skills) specific to nonprofits and fundraising. January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian.

Los Angeles 130

Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

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? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

Content 133

Content Learning Brain PPT 133

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Being an effective social media manager is both an art and a skill. They relish discussing ideas and issues online, and they do it with patience and kindness. It’s a real skill to navigate and guide the online commons and know how and when to react. Is not overly confident about her social media skills.

Social Media 267

Social Media Effective Media Management 267

sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

I often discuss the cost of success and the need to recognize human capital in this equation. By thinking freely, I had no problem considering outrageous ideas to help, but my leadership brain applied the necessary guardrails to make practical and cost-effective decisions. They need us to succeed.

Change Management 84

Change Management Change Management Denver 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Train Training Audience Activities 104

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. During the hiring process, make the skill of writing a top requirement for all positions. At many nonprofits, the skill of writing is an afterthought in the hiring process. That won’t cut it.

Tips 94

Tips Sample Nonprofit Skills 94

Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. We bring our experience and skills to increase staffing capacity within established nonprofits, help emerging nonprofits establish grant programs, and provide coaching, technical assistance, and grant training to nonprofit staff and volunteers.

Consultant 52

Consultant Campaign Fundraising Phoenix 52

NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. 12NTC wasn’t void of sessions and discussion on the topic, but they made sure fundamental things like email were covered because of a rather large group of people (Eh? 6 Takeaways from #12NTC. 1) Email is Hot.

Technology 245

Technology Game NTC San Francisco 245

Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Be the CEO of YOU No section on work habits would be complete without discussing self care. This one is wayyyy more important than it seems because your brain and body don’t function well if they aren’t rested. Staying hydrated helps combat fatigue, grumpiness, and sluggish brain syndrome. Make sure you get enough sleep.

Team 122

Team Nonprofit Calendar Volunteer 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Every day, as the Director of Leadership Development at Blackbaud, I work with leaders to develop the skills needed to lead engaged, high performing teams. SCARF stands for: S tatus – if a message impacts our status in relation to others our brain moves to threat state. I wanted to discuss your presentation.

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Effective Giving Brain Gift 30

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions. So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences. This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet!

Learning 88

Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

These barriers are precisely why I wanted to write ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World ” with KD Paine. In Chapter 3 of our book, we talk about the skills and practices of a data-informed organization. The reports shares the infographic below to illustrate the “Data Machine.”

Report 120

Report NTEN Data Measure 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

Instructional Design 113

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I also covered some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

Train 126

Train Training Design Classroom 126

Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

develop your fundraising skills. While there is a time to speak to your recurring donors about increasing their support—which we will discuss later—these conversations should be had strategically to avoid making them feel like ATMs. . As a nonprofit professional, you’re likely always looking for ways to further.

Impact 105

Impact Donor Strategy Statistics 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. I hate it when I can't instantly pull facts out of my brain. I would have my students look at web sites based on design criteria and discuss the web sites. About those memory lapses. As a non-linear thinker, I often get distracted too.

Skills 50

Skills Wiki Taxonomy Listserv 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps.

India 103

India NGO Network Exercise 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving. Healthy Mind Platter.

Brain 105

Brain Mind Offline South Africa 105

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Technical leadership generally gets a bad rap for not having quality soft skills. ladder that values technical brilliance over these desired soft skills. get your employee to bring “Did Well” accomplishments and “Next Time” improvements to discuss. Make your point and discuss it, don’t tell a story.

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Tag Management North America Austin 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. The retreat curriculum is built around the a framework called “I-WE-IT” that covers mindsets and practical skills that today’s social change leaders of all generations need as we move towards more collective approaches. Flexibility. Co-Creating.

Teach 50

Teach Change Exercise Social 50

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Plus, you can chime into the discussion board , which is a terrific way to discover folks to connect with as you plan your conference experience. Brush up on your speaking skills. Join the informal Birds of a Feather discussions to share insights with a group of fellow attendees of a similar background or interest.

Tips 69

Tips NTC DC NPO 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Before their annual staff retreat, Erika discussed the takeaways from the workshop with her executive director and some ideas of how to apply it.

Culture 50

Culture Create Chapter New York 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Here are some examples of the questions you can ask adult learners to write down and then discuss in small groups.

Evaluation 131

Evaluation Train Training Tips 131

Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

This process has been significantly augmented by social media, instead of limiting the practice to a regional endeavor where only local personnel can apply their skills, members of the organization in satellite offices can now contribute to the learning environment as a whole. The skills of individuals you have been paired with.

Learning 54

Learning Social Learning Environment Classroom 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

The process encourages stakeholders describe user profiles and what the site needs to meet their needs. Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast.

Online Learning 94

Online Learning Process Design Site 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need.

Reflection 98

Reflection Train Training Design 98

Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organization skills are key to developing the ideal training and development program. Our brains, while capable of accomplishing a lot of tasks at the same time, are not too great with knowledge retention in scenarios where multi-tasking is taking place. Assigning Priority. In school, priorities are simple.

Train 60

Train Training Education Learning 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. She also discusses it in the video above. During lunch, we discussed the field of network building for social change - what's needed to build this field? Later, I found the chart in Net Gains.

Network 95

Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations? One of the most exciting ideas that was discussed was this #KNGOW.

Global 101

Global Structure Model Network 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change. The latter includes a lack of a formal communication strategy or staffing limitations.

Pakistan 113

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

With a conference so packed with powerful learning, there is the danger of arriving at the closing session with a brain too full to take in any more content and with no time and space to reflection and capture some highlights for learning – it’s all lost. Markets for Good (@MarketsForGood) May 1, 2015.

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Conference Data Exercise Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful.

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Product Nonprofit Attention Skills 50