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. Pursue a limited set of vital priorities less is more.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

She studies team composition. 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. A mission team—like any team, anywhere—needs competent people who work well together,” Bell advises. “In Trust me, it’s worth it.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

You thought your team would be excited, or at least pleased. And the key to managing people through change is emotional intelligence.” Support Adaptation Emotional intelligence offers a path to support teams and helps them acquire the skills to become digitally proficient. The truth is no one seems happy. What went wrong?

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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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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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.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

A well-defined, member-focused vision provides a foundation that aligns your team and inspires progress. Identify Skill Gaps: Determine where training is needed, particularly in digital literacy and data analysis, to equip your team for success. Define Your Vision and Strategic Goals Your roadmap starts with a clear vision.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Culture: Empowering Teams to Drive Innovation Culture is the heartbeat of any association. A forward-thinking, inclusive culture fosters resilience and innovation, equipping your team to meet the demands of a fast-changing world.

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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. Focus on Agility : In a rapidly changing environment, a rigid strategy can hinder growth.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Learning how to manage volunteers effectively will help bridge the gap between recruitment and retention, ensuring more supporters stick around long-term. Volunteer management is the process of working with volunteers throughout their engagement with your organization, from recruitment to ongoing engagement and retention.

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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. If so, make a conscious effort to expand recognition across teams, levels, and roles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. 2) Online Document Sharing & Management. 4) Internal Communications Tools.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you can manage it, a more relaxed expression will make others comfortable and might mean fewer missteps and faster progress in the right direction. If you make kindness official by designating it as an organizational value, you can weave the threads of consideration throughout your team. Create a Comfortable Environment.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Leaders, managers, and employees from across industries have reached out, confirming what many of us have seen firsthand. And while Gen Z is demanding more fairness, structure, and transparency from their workplaces, the truth is: building better leadership isnt just a job for managers. Gen Z is in a unique position in the workforce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

In the nonprofit sector, cultivating a fair and supportive work environment is essential to ensuring the well-being of employees and fostering the success of the organization. Read on as we explore the concept of an environment of fairness, the impact of the pandemic on workplace culture, and the need for good management and accountability.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Spencer Czapiewski October 1, 2024 - 4:42pm Anika Martynowych Director, Product Management Earlier in my career, I was an admin for a massive e-commerce leader with an equally massive Tableau deployment. I loved the flexibility and manageability of Tableau Server, but I didn’t love managing updates and troubleshooting performance issues.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

Now, thanks to the latest advances in radio observatories, scientists are uncovering an entire "low surface brightness universe" teeming with circular curiosities, according to a team of researchers from Australia including an entirely new class of cosmic object. The supernova remnant will be deformed by its environment over time.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

High-performing teams thrive when there is clear accountability, fair conflict resolution and a culture of feedback and learning. Social comfort comes from clear expectations, defined workflows and recognizing individual talents within a team. Employees feel safe when they work in an environment where feedback is taught and encouraged.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

On Monday, the team published a letter on the Google Walkout Medium account firmly stating that Gebru was fired and did not resign as Google’s head of artificial intelligence, Jeff Dean, said. Ultimately, the leaders of the ethical AI team said they could not meet these conditions and preemptively accepted her resignation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

In any area of competence, measuring the collective output of a team or group of individuals will identify a Pareto-like distribution whereby 20% or so of individuals account for 80% or so of results, output, or productivity. If youre a leader, is your influence on the team growing? Have you increased your actual productivity?

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Spencer Czapiewski September 11, 2024 - 7:45pm Madeline Lee Product Manager, Technology Partners Empowering teams to make data-driven decisions quickly and collaboratively is no longer optional—it's necessary for business success. While many of our customers use Tableau alongside Microsoft Teams, these workflows have been disconnected.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More than a few of those executives were managing virtual teams. One bit of wisdom is that like most skills, managing a remote team is both easier and more complicated than we could have imagined. We were forced into situations that few were prepared to manage. What are the lessons learned? Give yourself a break.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Katina Sawyer, coauthor of Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives. And the individual leader is more important than the collective team in terms of what they bring to the table. Building stronger teams happens when leaders and teammates share their struggles.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I’ve been having conversations with my team, friends in the industry and fellow CEOs about what to expect in 2022 and we all agree that next year will be another wild ride. I was still careful but I had lunches with team members and clients, I attended a bunch of client social events, and I went to the mall a few times. Not gonna lie.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Plus, as a manager in a nonprofit, retention is a key component of your job. But while not every contributing factor to retention will be within your control as a manager, many thankfully are. Fine-tune new management and engagement tactics as they roll out. Understand the broader concept of talent strategy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

And as Generation Z professionalsthose born between 1997 and 2012 increasingly seek personalized career paths , managers are tasked with helping employees find meaning in their roles while also meeting organizational goals. Some managers may view Gen Zs desire for meaningful work as a form of entitlement, but dismissing it can be costly.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As we move deeply into a business environment dominated by artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence becomes increasingly important. Over the next few posts, I’m going to explore how AI grounded in EI can be your association’s superpower helping you accomplish those New Year’s goals and bring out the best in every team.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. Over the past three years,orgSource has been working with the PCI team on several significant projects,” Kevin said. The leadership team began by discussing the issues.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

And, in the current volatile environment, you need the best governance you can get. Cover topics like budgeting, investing, and managing debt. Invite your investment team to explain your organization’s allocation and risk strategies and investment reports. A director who can’t read your balance sheet, can’t be a great leader.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Their responsibilities have transformed as quickly as the systems they manage. If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. Technology took center stage.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

She has a robust background working with fund development programs and implementing new practices with her team. When I stepped on campus, a calmness washed over me like I was being placed in an environment in which I needed to be on and vital to my journey. This is the team that pays attention to the details.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And your Association Management System (AMS) is one of the most powerful tools you have! Your AMS is the lifeblood of your operations, streamlining processes, managing member data, and facilitating communication. Looking to increase membership, increase revenue, become more high-performing, and stay relevant? Schedule a demo today.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Set the Control Environment The first and most important internal control for the very small nonprofit is to set the control environment , that is, to let everyone know, from the top down, that there are policies in place and everyone has to follow the policies.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

CFO job duties generally include overseeing the finance team, analyzing and presenting financial statements, and budgeting and forecasting. One way to foster innovation to enhance efficiency is to have your team map out their collective “dream future process flow,” and then brainstorm ways to get there.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2025

Take time to engage all stakeholders board, management, staff, volunteers, donors and beneficiaries to conduct rich dialogues to address these deep questions. Briefly document how you persuade donor prospects to provide support in a very competitive environment. Craft a compelling case for support: How d o you articulate your cause?

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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).

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sgEngage

MARCH 29, 2023

Nonprofits rely on their finance teams to educate management and the board on all financial aspects related to the organization. These employees must provide the leadership team with the necessary financial information for planning, budgeting, and growth of the organization. It involves management and the board, as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

You’ll get faster speeds, stronger security, and extra managed services that are built-in to save you time. If needed, backups are easy to manage and restore from the dashboard. Managed Core Updates – WordPress publishes weekly maintenance releases and plugin creators tend to be bi-weekly to monthly. Daily backups as well.

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