TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Taking time to reflect on what makes you successful as a leader can be an important exercise in helping you grow. Rather than placing the responsibility on individuals, this leader tends to place greater emphasis on group projects and tasks and lives by the adage “two brains is better than one.”. Interested in learning more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Internet of Things gives objects a brain and connects them to each other. Track a new employee’s progress through training exercises and materials. These are a few of the most obvious: The rise of e-commerce is closing shopping malls and permanently altering consumer habits. Business is no exception to this metamorphosis.

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Media Cause

MARCH 18, 2022

Although laparoscopic surgical methods have improved, and the stigma of discussing menstruation continues to be reduced, many who seek answers for life-disrupting period pain are often told to focus on diet, exercise, and stress management. . But how do you exercise when you’re doubled over in pain in bed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

Walking as exercise has documented mental and physical benefits. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . If you had an exercise routine before, during lunch, or after work, maintain it. Keep moving and practice mindfulness.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

So, this exercise is also a marketing tool. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? These ideas may be obvious to association staff, but they may not be clear to the pundits you hope to attract. First, let’s make this distinction. You are looking for experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Breathe, exercise, and treat yourself. Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. This is true whether you work at an office or at home. People watch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have been using this technique for the past couple of months to incorporate walking and exercise into my day. The benefit of moving around helps with concentration. Still, you have to get stuff done. Workstation popcorn is probably best suited for remote workers and people who work at home, but you can do it in an office setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. … Read More.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

As part of the face-to-face training, we spent a day introducing participants to the different platforms and because we had wifi at the training, integrated using it as part of the exercise report outs. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication. There is also an self-assessment exercise. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

And if you don’t really like being on the phone, you can get those pesky calls done and out of the way, freeing up brain power for the rest of the day. But there ARE huge, daunting projects and articles I need to write that I feel stumped about, and other very challenging activities that require a lot of creativity and brain power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals. hours per night, I felt a lot better and had much more discipline to start to build other healthy habits – such as daily exercise. What I discovered is that once I was able to achieve my optimal number of 8.25

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. Say the ground rules for brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. 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. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Dr. Dan Siegel , a brain researcher, gave a riveting talk about interpersonal neurobiology – and what goes on in our brains and how it impacts our offline researches when we spend too much time connecting online. (Many said they had both experiences. Healthy Mind Platter. I got a copy of the book.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Exercise and meditation aremy game changers. Who has the energy to exercise when feeling tired and worn down? in an effort to remember to drink water.). Make time for movement and mindfulness. These likely fall into the safety needs category of “health” in the second tier of Maslow’s hierarchy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

I really think that it is much more effective for learning than talking heads or expert brain dump. On the content side, I was surprised to hear the responses to the simplicity exercise - what could your organization do less of? Meetings was a big one, followed by worry!

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

Like fitness and exercise, build learning into your daily routine. And like exercise, over time growth and learning becomes habitual and natural. link] Brain Pickings: Carol Dweck on Fixed vs. Growth Mindsets and the Power of Believing That You Can Improve [link] The post Grow Or Stagnate?: McKinsey & Company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. Deployed enough times, the brain encodes this response as a habit, eventually creating an automatic, default response to stress – i.e., a Protective Pattern.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Read Brain Tracy ''s new book, Unlimited Sales Success , twice! First, to cherry-pick and quickly discover the solutions to your most pressing sales challenges and roadblocks. Then, from cover to cover to learn a host of new strategies and techniques to propel your sales success and results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. The exercise is simple - take five minutes to eat a hershey's kiss and notice everything about the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I Understand and exercise the responsibilities of citizenship in a country. Understand how to navigate on one's own through a constantly shifting landscape of work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

6. Creative Use of Energizers: Avoiding the 3:00 PM My Brain Is Full Slump: No matter how engaging your content or instructional technique is – people get tired towards the end of a whole day of training. It is a well known fact that exercise helps you think better. (And That’s why you need energizers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2005

On most mornings, I try to get my exercise done in the morning, a five mile run or spinning. Corey Pudhorodsky, the and brains behind the program, is the Terry Gross of the nonprofit podcasting world. Just so it doesn't get boring, I take my Ipod along and listen to music or podcasts. I've said this before and I'll say it again.

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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). I have used online polling mostly on Webinars to learn more about audience characteristics at the beginning of the session and as reflection exercises in between sections of content.

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