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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the key qualities and skills you look for in potential board members?” Silvia Cooper from Prostate Cancer Research Institute The Combination of Passion, Skill, and Follow-Through We look at the intersection of passion and skill.

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The future of work is skill-based

Fast Company Tech

The benefits of skills as a new currency of work Focusing on skills-based hiring benefits individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and society as a whole. Ive worked closely with many workforce development nonprofits, and its clear that when we have a narrow focus on college degrees, many skilled workers get left behind.

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

.orgSource

What can we do to ensure they have the skills to understand a challenging landscape and make the wise decisions needed for success? Lately, I’ve been speaking and writing about the importance of emotional intelligence and how the softer skills add a critical dimension to digital initiatives. How do we bring novice players up to speed?

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When Culture is a Skill Set Leaders Reap Rewards—PCI Lives Their Values

.orgSource

Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. Associations that treat culture as a skill set are reaping rewards from their investment. We believe these are the qualities that support a healthy office environment.

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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

However, those lacking the necessary skills or funding might struggle to keep up, leading to a widening gap between tech-enabled nonprofits and those left behind. Rather, it will affect smaller organizations and those in resource constrained environments more. These are all hard problems without an obvious solution.

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Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS

Gyrus

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others.

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Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI

Futurism

In short: if today's AI is any indication, tomorrow's AI is going to flatten just as many high-skilled jobs as it will low-skilled. It's compelling evidence that big tech's endless push toward an AI-powered future will continue to be a one-way street in our current labor environment.

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