Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Executives and managers are traditionally reluctant to express any tender inner feelings from their teams and peers. Yet leaders who are willing to tap into the power of vulnerability are seeing benefits to their ability to connect, motivate, and lead teams. You should act in support of your team, rather than reactive and self-serving.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

With competition for skilled professionals rising and work environments shifting, finding and keeping great talent takes more than just passion. Crafting a Compelling Employer Brand People want to work where they know theyll make a difference. When candidates see the real-world impact of your work, theyll want to be part of it.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Start by identifying colleagues in different teams whose work interests you. After we talked about cross-departmental networking, she connected with our marketing team and discovered they needed help interpreting customer data. One of the requirements was to complete a two-month stint working in the operating room.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? We were working on a system selection and installation with a recently promoted IT manager. In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Eventually I believe that organizations will be building their own AI tools. “I But I also believe that marketing teams should embrace AI and discover new ways to use it to improve our profession. AI will be part of their early work experience. The post Build a Marketing Dream Team—Welcome AI appeared first on.orgSource.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Efficiency Gains By automating tasks like donor targeting and messaging, AI frees up your team to focus on building relationships and crafting high-level strategies, driving more value from every interaction. About the Sponsor The Glued Network team uses software and data to help organizations find more donors digitally.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

We’ve all heard the catchphrase, “ if we build it, they will come. ” While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. You need to have the right talent for a technical build.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

For those struggling to find the time or knowledge to get started, building out a lightweight framework can help combat both those obstacles. Does your team feel comfortable with the quality of the data? Once you have that settled, your team can focus on how you’ll get it done. Choose a few to start with and build from there.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

A well-defined, member-focused vision provides a foundation that aligns your team and inspires progress. How.orgSource Can Help: We work with associations to create actionable, future-focused strategies that align with industry trends and member needs, ensuring your vision is resilient and achievable.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Finance plays a crucial role in building a sustainable and scalable funding strategy. When your organization expands your revenue sources, you: Build resilience A broader funding base means your organization is less likely to face a financial crisis if one revenue stream dips. The good news?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A good finance team will make sure bills are paid on time, reports are accurate, and the Board of Directors has access to the current financial statements. A good finance team will help you stay where you are. A good finance team will help you stay where you are. You want your team members to grow as your organization grows.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2025

Sharing data in an integrated financial and CRM ecosystem aligns functional teams and reduces time-intensive manual extracting and inputting of data, allowing you to put more of your time, energy, and resources into furthering your mission. Even if theyre not conscious of how its working behind the scenes. That builds trust.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director at iMission a full-service digital-first marketing agency working exclusively with nonprofits and social sector organizations. Provide ongoing training and support: Empowering your team to effectively utilize Salesforce’s features. Then, explore how Salesforce addresses these challenges.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Thats why we specialize in helping associations build digital strategies that address inefficiencies, improve member engagement, and leverage data for growth. Outdated technology can frustrate both your team and your members, hindering engagement and growth. At.orgSource, we understand these challenges.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Solution: Streamlined operations and scalable platforms enable your team to focus on strategic priorities rather than routine tasks. Difficulty Measuring Success: Without analytics, its impossible to know if your efforts are working. Associations handle sensitive member data, making robust security essential to building trust.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

You thought your team would be excited, or at least pleased. Some employees have invented tortuous workarounds to keep using their new toys to continue working in the same old way. Support Adaptation Emotional intelligence offers a path to support teams and helps them acquire the skills to become digitally proficient.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

In 1999 alone, the team-up yielded several major, genre-spanning hits, including Sopranos -adjacent mob comedy Analyze This , schlocky shark horror Deep Blue Sea , and director David O. It didnt take long for the Village Roadshow-Warner Bros. partnership to find explosive success. Neither Village Roadshow nor Warner Bros.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you. Here are tips for building an effective partner ecosystem for your grantmaking organization, including some common integration challenges to avoid.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an organization designed, albeit unintentionally, to produce bad leaders. When leaders work at cross-purposes with other leaders, it signals to those they lead to put their own agendas first.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Do you feel stuck navigating office politics, micromanagement, or being overlooked at work? Through real-life stories and research-backed strategies, she breaks down 10 key conversations that help you build influence, set boundaries, and operate from a position of power. Its about taking control of your own work experience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more conventional teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. 78% would work longer hours for a more empathetic company.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

When they are turning smoothly, everything works, invoices get paid, and the organization hums along. For lean accounting teams, this can be especially challenging, as each member is critical to maintaining the flow of operations. Accounts Payable are like the gears inside a clock.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

20 , offers a chance to reflect on what truly defines leadership not just strategy or decision-making, but the ability to build trust. In an era of rapid change, when teams look to leaders for stability and direction, trust is the invisible currency that fuels organizational success. Here are a few insights: Empower your team.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Do you ever find yourself, your team, or your board of directors saying things like: “If we could just get this one big grant, we’d be set for the year!”. If he could just hear about our work, he’d give us the million dollars we need to build our new building! It seems like so much work! They did the work.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a lifetime, we spend approximately 90,000 hours working. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. There’s a reason they call it work. Let’s make joy a priority.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 24, 2025

Even soft robots made of flexible materials struggle to deform outside of the physical limits of their building blocks. This month, a team from Korea introduced liquid robots inspired by biological cells. It is challenging to emulate biological forms and functions with artificial machines, wrote the team.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

From staff supporting my husband in those crucial first hours to my care team treating me as a personcalling me by name and letting me choose my meals for six weeksI felt seen, heard, and valued. It begs the question: Should empathy ever be put aside at work, or should we be doubling down on it? whenever they see you waffling.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But today, many people think of a great workplace as not even one specific place at all, with many employers opting for a permanent remote work setup after a trial proved prosperous during the pandemic. Do you have a culture club that organizes team-building activities and social events? Work-life balance.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. That’s where this guide comes in—we’ll discuss the must-have members of your nonprofit’s fundraising team.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Now, the team plans to expand the initiative to Paris and Lviv, Ukraine. But in cities with historic buildings that predate modern accessibility standards by decades or even centuries, those challenges are even further amplified. Thorleifssons work is beginning to change this. And this isnt just an Icelandic issue.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

But if March 7 is the only time leaders express appreciation to their teams, theyre missing the mark. Some organizations are quietly deprioritizing diversity programs, while others, like Meta , have made highly visible cuts to their DEI teams. How employees work is just as important as what they achieve.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2025

Planning a strategic session for your nonprofit can be one of the most impactful moments of the yeara chance to reset, strategize, and inspire your team. Rushed pre-work : High-quality planning sessions start with pre-work that takes time to create and time to complete. Test technology and AV setups to avoid day-of disruptions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

[Photo: NBBJ/courtesy UCSF] Rethinking the waiting room Part of the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospitals system, the Stad Center is a five-year-old clinic that builds off Friedrichsdorf’s previous working building a similar pain center in Minneapolis. It feels very cohesive.

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Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The way we work is rapidly evolving amid societal and industry changes in a post-pandemic world. One shift I’m seeing is the rise of those I call the “Autonomists”—highly skilled professionals who are opting out of traditional employment structures in favor of independent, project-based work.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

The agent is being rolled out to all Otter users and is currently compatible with Zoom, with support for Microsoft Teams and Google Meet expected in the coming weeks. Otter, which recently announced it has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue, is also rolling out other AI agents aimed at supporting sales teams.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Signers of any skill level can contribute by signing specific words to help build an open-source video dataset for ASL. NVIDIA teams plan to use this dataset to further develop AI applications that break down communication barriers between the deaf and hearing communities.

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