Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Meetings are a big part of our work week, whether it is a recurring staff, team, or board meeting or informal check-in. Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. That’s why I’ve keep a good list of meeting facilitation playbooks handy for inspiration.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Viewing technology through the lens of human qualities like empathy, collaboration, and compassion ensures that instead of replacing people, our inventions lead to discovering deeper value and creating more resilient organizations. Social media platforms and mobile apps facilitate real-time interactions, keeping members informed and involved.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session. Basic Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2020

What’s more, golf event participants are often an affluent and influential group; players recruit members of their personal and professional networks to field a team, creating substantial opportunities for organizations to grow their donor base when this data is processed and handled correctly. 3) All the Nitty Gritty Golf Details.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The most successful virtual formats invite players to participate in the golf outing over an extended period of time and/or at multiple courses, using the right technology to facilitate registration, live scoring, leaderboards, and digital sponsorships. You also may need to go virtual. 3) Send save-the-dates. 4) Plan on live scoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, nearly two decades after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? Did your last facilitator stand behind a lectern and drone on like a record playing in slow motion? Facilitate and engage with confidence. Were they unengaging? Credibility.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The.orgSource and.orgCommunity teams send our best wishes to our clients and friends for a happy and productive 2023. Jamie Notter, Co-Founder at Propel , showed us how to integrate culture, strategy, and execution to help teams deliver peak performance and improve employee retention. “If Our Year in Review. Leadership.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Remote work is challenging teams. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. The executive team is stretched too thin. Teams are engaged and proud of their work. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Departments are not communicating efficiently.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Relevant content might include profiles of an organization’s team members, partners with whom the audience can relate, and information that is especially timely (such as, in the current environment, information demonstrating an understanding of how COVID-19 is affecting the audience). Below are four examples: 1) Virtual Team Management.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? Turn the focus away from individual success and toward team building. Turn the focus away from individual success and toward team building. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work.

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 5, 2020

With physical events and social gatherings requiring attendance restrictions and physical distancing, many event organizers and planners are wondering how they can facilitate networking at their event while following the mandates and keeping attendees safe from the coronavirus. . Choose the Right Venue. Use Creative Decor.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

Ries defines the MVP like this: “The MVP is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.” Everyone on your team will not become a believer overnight. Don’t limit creativity to the management team. They are also good facilitators.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

Brian serves as the Founder of BPOZ Brand Leadership and is a Founding Partner of Curious Collaborations. Nonprofit, business, people, team, board, community, tech, emergent, servant, etc. No one has more impact on brand health than the leadership team. Everywhere you look these days, people are talking about leadership.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Break down organizational silos and encourage greater collaboration between teams. Fund the development of a website to facilitate peer-to-peer evaluations of nonprofits. Enhance focus on retention and building supporter loyalty. Develop a more integrated approach to fundraising. Develop the self-regulation of fundraising.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2021

You’ll want a provider that includes secure payment processing, plus an easy to use web-based platform where registrant information is stored to stay organized and collaborate with your planning team with up-to-the-minute data. . 3) Adapt the tournament as necessary. This process doesn’t have to be time-consuming or a hassle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. And, if you have a lot of introverts on your team, adapt the activities so they are non-verbal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

These steps are necessary to ensure that your entire team is on the same page, but if they’re not done efficiently, it can hold your board back from being truly productive. It facilitates straightforward communication between board members, helps you keep documents organized, and more, similar to a traditional board books.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

But well before this year, the topic of collaborating remotely has been near and dear to the Nimble AMS team’s heart. Because Nimble AMS , built on the Salesforce platform , has always been ready to support remote collaboration. With Nimble AMS, your staff can be prepared to collaborate, no matter where they are.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a healthy chapter program requires strong, ongoing collaboration between your association’s headquarters and chapters. The foundation of successful collaboration is a strong relationship. Work together to identify goals and discuss how you can team up to reach them. Develop relationships. Share useful information.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But, Don Draper and the team at Mad Men probably would not approve. Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. How hard is it to add a bot or two to your team? Humans still do better creative.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. The community will see that you aren’t making changes, aren’t communicating, and aren’t collaborating and will disengage. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, two decades after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. Photo by Trav Williams.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. These games are a springboard for further conversation around emotions, empathy, collaboration, and relationship building. Start slowly.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Most importantly, you are looking for a system architecture that allows some partners to work completely privately, some collaboratively, and some fully integrated--and these options need to be concurrently deployable. For example, nearly half of VisionLink’s technical team is badged by U.S. User Flexible or Provider Flexible?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

So how does your team make it okay to keep your camera off during meetings? What that means in practice is that norms are the ground rules for how a group of people communicate and collaborate with each other. Does your team have a “cameras-on” or “camera-off” norm for virtual meetings?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Identify staffers who will be ambassadors and fill these collaborative roles: Identify employees across the organization to be ambassadors. They are role models who inspire teams to see from a different perspective.

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