Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The Grossman Group has launched its new Take5 ™ to Communicate Well three part e-learning course designed to teach managers at all levels how to plan and deliver effective communications to their employees. Take5 ™ to Communicate Well is available for license in an off-the-shelf and fully customizable format.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Therefore, it might be challenging to provide meaningful and consistent training to both groups. Manual jobs are getting automated, and employees need to be armed with both communication and technical skills moving forward. Focus more on communication skills. 5 Steps to Successfully Managing Hybrid Work Training 1.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Therefore, it might be challenging to provide meaningful and consistent training to both groups. Manual jobs are getting automated, and employees need to be armed with both communication and technical skills moving forward. Focus more on communication skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Therefore, it might be challenging to provide meaningful and consistent training to both groups. Manual jobs are getting automated, and employees need to be armed with both communication and technical skills moving forward. Focus more on communication skills.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

To be a skilled fundraiser, you need many skills. Avoiding fundraising mistakes requires a delicate balance of strategy, communication, and relationship-building. Manual data entry is prone to errors, and spreadsheets lack the advanced features needed for effective donor segmentation, communication tracking, and reporting.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. Training employees on AI best practices will keep their tech skills current and improve their ability to use the technology effectively. Now is the time to get started with AI fundraising!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. Passing the design ball” on projects similarly builds skills amongst team members. This fosters a culture of open communication and empathy within the team.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Those in positions of power can invite traditionally excluded people to the table, but to sustain meaningful dialogue, everyone must have some skills to hold these important and often difficult conversations.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 9, 2024

Here are just a few guidelines to help you communicate in a manner that leaves all parties feeling understood, inspired and empowered. Humans have a natural tendency to sort people into groups based on characteristics such as disability, gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and religion. Who is that person?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. The skills are: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. Found it via Curata’s collection ). Look for the Patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2023

Today, we will explore how to train the sales team and the revenue-boosting techniques for the same. It must provide them with valuable insights, knowledge, and skills to excel in their roles. The method should be engaging, encourage active participation, and must promote skill application.

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2023

Today, we will explore how to train the sales team and the revenue-boosting techniques for the same. It must provide them with valuable insights, knowledge, and skills to excel in their roles. The method should be engaging, encourage active participation, and must promote skill application.

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2023

Today, we will explore how to train the sales team and the revenue-boosting techniques for the same. It must provide them with valuable insights, knowledge, and skills to excel in their roles. The method should be engaging, encourage active participation, and must promote skill application.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2012

I recommend David Grossman's, You Can't Not Communicate, 2." And, even more important, David gives you lots of practical, real-world, wise, straight-forward advice on how to communicate more effectively as a leader -- all tips and techniques you can start to implement the day after you finish reading it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

They regularly communicate with each other via virtual spaces. Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. However, if the systems in place are inadequate to support virtual communication, productivity can suffer.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

They regularly communicate with each other via virtual spaces. Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. However, if the systems in place are inadequate to support virtual communication, productivity can suffer.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

They regularly communicate with each other via virtual spaces. Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. However, if the systems in place are inadequate to support virtual communication, productivity can suffer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! Technique 2: Affinity Mapping.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Assessing Board Members’ Skills and Interests To optimize board members’ fundraising efforts, it is essential to understand their unique skills and interests.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Clearly Identify Roles and Responsibilities The Difference Between Skills, Qualifications and Experience How Should Soft Skills and Personal Characteristics Be Incorporated? A job posting is the external communication about the open vacancy for which a job description was written. What is the Purpose of the Role?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 23, 2013

I recommend David Grossman''s, You Can''t Not Communicate, 2." More important, David gives you lots of practical, real-world, wise, straight-forward advice on how to communicate more effectively as a leader -- all tips and techniques you can start to do when you return from vacation. I am a big fan of his work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But communicating with your supporters can be intimidating. Those factors can make it hard to communicate authentically and effectively. Check out this blog article on effective fundraising communications tips you can use as you talk with your supporters. That tip sounds kind of goofy, doesn’t it? And not just any people!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. Change management relies on a wide variety of tools and techniques. Easy to communicate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 22, 2011

I recommend David Grossman's, You Can't Not Communicate, 2." More important, David gives you lots of practical, real-world, wise, straight-forward advice on how to communicate more effectively as a leader -- all tips and techniques you can start to do when you return from vacation. I am a big fan of his work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Being stuck in chronic performance can have a devastating impact on your skills, confidence, job, and personal life. No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.” Confusion and conflict emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

By instilling basic business skills courses within your program employees can quickly obtain the business skills they do not know they require to succeed in their roles. With the importance of email correspondence in modern business, writing and grammar skills are more important and meaningful than ever. Problem Solving.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead Working with volunteers and including them in your nonprofit’s strategy can be meaningful, challenging, and rewarding, all at the same time. scroll down to learn more about them!)

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