Change Management, Evaluation, Help and People

4 Necessary Culture Shifts To Help You Navigate Change Management

Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management , which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. Organizations that successfully navigate change management have also made culture shifts to ensure lasting change.

Change Management

Change Management Culture Change Management

5 best practices for Salesforce change management

fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Whether a change happens goes smoothly or runs into unforeseen obstacles, it can be challenging technically and emotionally – and it’s not getting any easier in our fast-paced digital world. People can be highly resistant to change, especially when it alters their established ways of working. Clarity is key to that.

Change Management

Change Management Practice Change Management

An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation?

Participatory

Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant

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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

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. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind.

Software

Software Build Analytics Associations

How Nonprofits Can Avoid Buyer’s Remorse for Fund Accounting Software

sgEngage

JULY 5, 2024

In addition to the financial investment, there are many people, processes, and systems that you need to account for with this decision. This gives people ownership and enables them to take initiative in the process. These individuals can also help you develop project management milestones and timeline management processes.

Fund

Fund Software Phase Chart

Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Anchoring bias makes people rely too heavily on the first bit of information they receive. Cognitive bias can be helpful when you need to make decisions quickly. Predictive modeling reveals future outcomes and trends with greater accuracy than traditional methods, enabling proactive decision-making and change management.

Data

Data Studies Music Analysis

Data Governance: The Key to Strategic Planning

sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Foster a Culture of Security Your digital ecosystem is made of up three parts: People, Systems, and Processes. Your people are stewards of your mission and the heart of the organization. Your system is the place where information is kept and should help you to be efficient and effective.

Government

Government Data Adopt Change Management

13 types of employee training to improve your workplace’s performance

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Gamification This training method involves game-like elements and mechanics in non-game contexts to engage and motivate people to achieve a specific goal or complete a task. This training aims to help individuals and organizations develop the necessary competencies to implement effective quality assurance programs.

Train

Train Training Classroom Skills

13 types of employee training to improve your workplace’s performance

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Gamification This training method involves game-like elements and mechanics in non-game contexts to engage and motivate people to achieve a specific goal or complete a task. This training aims to help individuals and organizations develop the necessary competencies to implement effective quality assurance programs.

Train

Train Training Classroom Skills

13 types of employee training to improve your workplace’s performance

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Gamification This training method involves game-like elements and mechanics in non-game contexts to engage and motivate people to achieve a specific goal or complete a task. This training aims to help individuals and organizations develop the necessary competencies to implement effective quality assurance programs.

Train

Train Training Classroom Skills

Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. You could also review each job description and add essential and helpful skills. It’s boring, and it doesn’t really improve people’s skills.

Skills

Skills Technology Develop Training

4 Things Large Nonprofits Miss When Redesigning their Website

Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example, images and content displayed on the homepage will change based on past clicking and scrolling behavior. Establish new digital governance and implement change management Creating, maintaining, and evolving an effective online digital presence for your organization can’t be done by your communications department alone.

Websites

Websites Change Management Digital Government

Essential Strategies for Your Foundation’s Next Website Redesign

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For example, images and content displayed on the homepage will change based on past clicking and scrolling behavior. Establish new digital governance and implement change management. Change management is quite simply a proactive approach to managing change in an organization’s processes, goals, or technologies.

Websites

Websites Strategy Change Management Digital

Beyond the RFP: How to Choose Technology Partners for Impact

sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

We are customer service experts working in multiple languages, usually with the help of Google Translate. These migrations slow us down considerably and distract us from the high-risk compliance and risk-mitigation work primary to our grants manager job descriptions. People transform ideas into reality.

Impact

Impact Technology Articulate Grant

Seven Tips on How to Use Your Digital Ecosystem to Enhance Your Fundraising

Forum One

JULY 27, 2021

Though it has changed in shape during the pandemic, here are seven tips on how to use your digital ecosystem to enhance your fundraising. As people are spending more and more time online, digital fundraising is vital for mission-driven organizations to achieve and surpass goals. . Build stakeholder buy-in across your organization.

Digital

Digital Tips Fundraising Evaluation

Role of HR in a Successful Training and Development Process

Gyrus

MARCH 2, 2021

Providing your employees and staff with the following learnings and opportunities makes up the training and development aspect of your organization: Providing them with lessons and learning material that help them upskill and improve their performance on the job.

Roles

Roles Train Training Process

Role of HR in a Successful Training and Development Process

Gyrus

MARCH 2, 2021

Providing your employees and staff with the following learnings and opportunities makes up the training and development aspect of your organization: Providing them with lessons and learning material that help them upskill and improve their performance on the job.

Roles

Roles Train Training Process

Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page.

Data

Data Blackbaud Policy Database

Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. More people working in or with grantmaking organizations now have some term related to knowledge work in their titles or job descriptions.

Knowledge

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work

Modern Nonprofit Tools for Long-Term Success

sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

They’re supported round-the-clock by service teams ready to answer questions and ensure that your people get the information they need when they need it. With the right technology to help you run your organization effectively, you can make sure your organization is set up for long-term success. Transition.

Tools

Tools Application Nonprofit Software

Life After Luminate CRM: Moving Forward with the Nonprofit Success Pack

Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

Cloud for Good, and the entire Salesforce ecosystem, can help prepare and support you during this transition. The experience you’ve gained building business processes and developing security protocols in a Salesforce-based technology solution will greatly help you get up and running with NPSP. Now – Take Initiative.

Life

Life Test Nonprofit Data

The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

They say things like, “We will create X program, it will serve Y people, in Z months, and it will create these A, B, C forms of measurable impact,” but do they really know any of that? Please help now.” They are doing really great work and they need more help to meet demand. You might say about the second organization, “Wow!

Problem

Problem Skills Proposal Grant

Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that decline has significant implications for educational institutions worldwide. Sharing resources, pooling expertise, and creating joint programs can help institutions achieve efficiencies and increase their attractiveness to students. Re-evaluate your messaging.

Education

Education Student Award University

Role of HR in a Successful Training and Development Process

Gyrus

MARCH 2, 2021

Providing your employees and staff with the following learnings and opportunities makes up the training and development aspect of your organization: Providing them with lessons and learning material that help them upskill and improve their performance on the job.

Roles

Roles Train Training Process

How do you create a culture that is not afraid to fail (or be more receptive to social media?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation. He described the challenges of adapting evaluation methods to non-Western systems in developing countries because evaluation has traditionally been deeply rooted in the Western ways of thinking.

Social Media

Social Media Culture Create Media

Technology Leaders Are Change Agents: Discussion from the NTEN Community

NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

We would then figure out a software solution and people process to streamline the work, cut down on resources, etc. I'd really like to get into doing that kind of work again, only with nonprofits, but it seems like all the groups I meet only want people to deal with tech, not business. of people, even.

Discussion

Discussion NTEN Change Technology

Fostering User Adoption in your Learning Program

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As you transition from your outdated Learning Management System (LMS) to your new GyrusAim v16.1.0.4 application it is important to keep in mind your users’ perception of the change. In order to properly prepare your workforce for the impending change, it is pertinent that you: Obtain User Input to Specify Requirements.

Adopt

Adopt Program Learning Application

Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? Then the hands-on part started: • We broke into teams of 40 to 70 people, based on the type of work we do. People were extremely engaged. How did it go?

Social Media

Social Media Media Remix Social

Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Did you know that play can help you, too? Register now!

Research

Research San Francisco Montana Homeless

Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Did you know that play can help you, too? Register now!

Research

Research San Francisco Montana Homeless

Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

People haven't reinvented school yet. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. Young people should enjoy the educational process.

Game

Game Education Change Classroom

Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In order to be successful in this step you will need full management support and a dedicated key project lead for your team. This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation.

Measure

Measure Issue Impact Survey

Build, Buy, or Customize?

Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

I’m often asked to help nonprofits define a technology roadmap – that is, figuring out how to migrate their business from a legacy system(s) to a new solution(s) and beyond. End-users ask, “can we make changes to the ‘out of the box’ software to meet specific needs? Development approach.

Build

Build API Evaluation Exercise

Forget the Tech, Let’s Talk Mission

NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

How do you build a lasting and functional relationship with your organization even when you're rejected by the very people you struggle to support? You keep trying and you change your approach to meet each situation. You are meeting regularly with key staff and department heads to evaluate needs and implement solutions.

Tech

Tech Org Chart San Diego

2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But what we’ve seen in the market out there is that people are seeing subscription pricing models as a solution to the problem of deflation in CE pricing (see the Value-based Accreditation entry, above, for more discussion of that issue). In the early days, it had a different name (Tin Can) and people just knew it was a thing.

Hype

Hype eLearning Model Badge

Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. A lot of IT failures happen when people focus too much on one issue at the expense of another. Defining the different roles helps avoid this.

Roles

Roles Project Process Management

Salesforce for non-profit organizations

fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Can a consultant help me if my nonprofit is already using Salesforce? What business goals can Salesforce help nonprofits achieve? Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps for-profits and nonprofits to manage their customer experience. What is Salesforce?

Profit

Profit Organization Consultant Adopt

How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

Evaluation

Evaluation Kansas City Mentoring Kansas

Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Reaching people in the midst of a major disaster is challenging, said Tacker, and the Foundation depends heavily on its technology platform for outreach and processing. “In In the days following the fires in Maui, many people didn’t have access to Internet, cell service, even land phone lines. Everyone on the island suffered a loss.

Advice

Advice Tech Sharepoint Grant

Grantmakers’ Questions as a Way Toward Change

sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks. Questions are instrumental to successful grantmaking that focuses on change. What future does the question help us to create?

Question

Question Change Grant History

Technology as Partner (not Product) in Knowledge Work

sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2024

The list is long and includes roles like information technology, evaluation, grants analysis, learning and change, systems management, and more. Are you seeking to explore the language that people use and how their perspectives change over time? How do you maximize textual responses beyond counting words?

Knowledge

Knowledge Product Technology Work

An Interview with BWF on the Value of the RFP Process

Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Request for proposals, or RFPs, help define projects, set expectations, and ensure the right clients and/or vendors are selected to help businesses grow effectively and efficiently. The second phase is more focused and concentrates planning on migrating specific business processes, testing, launching, and change management.

Process

Process Interview Phase Map

Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Posted by Eric Jacobson at 8:10 PM Labels: Books For Managers , Change Management , Customer Feedback , Customer Service , General Management Skills , Strategic Planning 1 comments: Maths private tutor said. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

Kansas City

Kansas City Kansas Help Mentoring

How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010 How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work Research from universities around the country show that employees who "click" with each other at work have more career success. Consider these findings from the research: How much you reveal about yourself to a co-worker helps you click.

Work

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4 Necessary Culture Shifts To Help You Navigate Change Management

5 best practices for Salesforce change management

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

How Nonprofits Can Avoid Buyer’s Remorse for Fund Accounting Software

Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

Data Governance: The Key to Strategic Planning

13 types of employee training to improve your workplace’s performance

13 types of employee training to improve your workplace’s performance

13 types of employee training to improve your workplace’s performance

Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

4 Things Large Nonprofits Miss When Redesigning their Website

Essential Strategies for Your Foundation’s Next Website Redesign

Beyond the RFP: How to Choose Technology Partners for Impact

Seven Tips on How to Use Your Digital Ecosystem to Enhance Your Fundraising

Role of HR in a Successful Training and Development Process

Role of HR in a Successful Training and Development Process

Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

Modern Nonprofit Tools for Long-Term Success

Life After Luminate CRM: Moving Forward with the Nonprofit Success Pack

The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

Role of HR in a Successful Training and Development Process

How do you create a culture that is not afraid to fail (or be more receptive to social media?)

Technology Leaders Are Change Agents: Discussion from the NTEN Community

Fostering User Adoption in your Learning Program

Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

Build, Buy, or Customize?

Forget the Tech, Let’s Talk Mission

2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

Salesforce for non-profit organizations

How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

Grantmakers’ Questions as a Way Toward Change

Technology as Partner (not Product) in Knowledge Work

An Interview with BWF on the Value of the RFP Process

Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan

How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work

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