.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Bell’s work will play a large role in their success. She studies team composition. Bell is researching what mix of personalities is most likely to work effectively together. Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. We saw their loyalty as beyond commercial transactions.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. We saw their loyalty as beyond commercial transactions.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With disruption happening all around us, were here to upscale your team and ensure that your organization is ready to thrive, improving operational efficiencies and positioning you for success. Associations that foster a culture of adaptability, innovation, and collaboration are better positioned to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. Taking the right approach can go a long way to helping your team ease into this new style of operating. It’s a professional way of saying bust the silos. It’s a choice.”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Preparing to Work with a Nonprofit Design Agency Before you hand off your project to a design agency, it helps to put your own ducks in a row. Content Inventory : Determine whats working, whats outdated, and whats missing. They may include donors, volunteers, program beneficiaries, and those who champion your cause from afar.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. If suggestions miss the mark, use constructive criticism, not judgment, to point your team in the right direction.

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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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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 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. They collaborated with popular franchises, developed video games and apps, and created products for adults. The truth is no one seems happy.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Many of us want to get promoted at work, but dont often stop to consider what that means. Moving into the executive ranks often means leading the very people you once worked alongside. In those cases, Id wait to ensure that this high performer is making an effort to work on leadership quality, including their peer relationships.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

They established national AI committees and working groups that spanned learning and development experts, local chapter leaders, and technological advisors (often Googlers). The most important question Project Evident asks when working with nonprofits on AI adoption is 'Why AI?'"

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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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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. Make time to audit the impact working from home is having on your organization. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Don’t forget volunteers.

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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. Servers and software can be fixed fairly easily.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Over the course of its 40-year history, J.Crew has explored all kinds of design collaborations. But if you walk into a store, you might also come across slightly more unexpected collaborations. Through these collaborations, we’re getting a glimpse into Wadle’s vision for trying to make J.Crew relevant again.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Do you feel stuck navigating office politics, micromanagement, or being overlooked at work? Its about taking control of your own work experience. Were working in a world of hybrid teams, instant messaging, and four generations collaborating side by side. and its not going to work for long.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As leaders of Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, we came together with a shared goal: to explore whether our organizations, through collaboration, could better understand the deeper patterns driving charitable giving by leveraging our collective data sets. Too often, data on individual and institutional giving remains siloed.

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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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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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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 7, 2025

Theyre the first generation thatll work alongside more generations than any before them, whether thats boomers delaying retirement, or Gen X, millennials, and even the generation coming up behind them. Find common ground across generations Many credit Gen Z with bringing work-life balance back into the conversation. Heres how.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

In an era of rapid change, when teams look to leaders for stability and direction, trust is the invisible currency that fuels organizational success. Ive conducted some myself, including work on how trust is essential for leaders in cross-cultural business environments. Here are a few insights: Empower your team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the face of tremendous adversity and growing need, nonprofits are doing incredible work at a critical time. Choosing the right productivity software can help augment these efforts, enabling nonprofit teams to perform excellent work from anywhere in the world. 2) Online Document Sharing & Management. Recommendation ?

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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

If the toxic behaviour that caused the resignation remains unaddressed , remaining employees may become disengaged, leading to a decline in work quality. Employees want to work for companies that respect their individuality and value their contributions. Finally, revenge quitting can have lasting consequences on workplace culture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The digital team works hard to produce social content that balances sharing stories of the people they serve, the impact of their work, and the generosity of their supporters. While the communications team features a wide variety of content on social media, one of the messaging themes they focus on is innovative partnerships.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For fundraising teams, strategically leveraging workplace giving programs can unlock new revenue streams, strengthen donor relationships, and maximize the impact of their campaigns. Volunteer time off : Companies supply employees with paid time off from work to volunteer with nonprofit organizations.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the senior manager of digital and data at the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation , Im always looking for new ways to eliminate friction between our organizations mission to prevent osteoporosis and my teams ability to realize it. Each meeting, my team members and I expect progress from the meeting we had two weeks ago.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 8, 2025

If the team at Intermountain could understand the path, they would be in a better position to make it smoother and more rewarding. The team at Intermountain Health used their existing donor data to identify the new donors they wanted to focus on. The more cross-department collaboration you can cultivate, the better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

The marketing team of the international nonprofit, Water.org , was quick to evaluate their social content plans as the COVID-19 pandemic spread on and offline in early 2020. 1) Water.org provided followers with video content on how the work of Water.org is directly tied to preventing the spread of COVID-19. Watch Video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By Annisa Wanat , an independent consultant who works to strengthen the capacity of mission-driven organizations to achieve their goals more strategically by providing customized solutions in leadership, management, and communications. 4) Collaborate Outside of Scheduled Meetings. 1) Demonstrate Transparency. 5) Display Tech Savvy.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Board members want and need meaningful work tied to the mission. That means they have to have time to commit first, then the skills we need — not all organizations need the same skills — and then the follow-through to get the work done independently. That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2020

COVID-19 has had some unexpected consequences for our work lives. They can be organized into sets, and readily accessed by the team. The community simply works. Benefit #3: Private Spaces for each Team. The fundraising team, the Board of Directors, the volunteers, they all have different needs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2021

Your nonprofit just scored that dream partner you worked so hard to prospect and now have big plans in the works, but how do you ensure a prosperous and collaborative relationship? Are you taking the necessary steps to set your partnership up for longevity and success?

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

During his GTC keynote , NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang showcased how NVIDIAs data center engineering team developed an application on the Omniverse Blueprint to plan, optimize and simulate a 1 gigawatt AI factory. Optimize energy usage Real-time simulation updates enable teams to find the most efficient designs for AI workloads.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

2) The bots will be our BFFs freeing us from a multitude of mundane tasks to work at a higher level. 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.

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