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Design Series: Understanding Audience Needs

Forum One

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. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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17 Tips To Create An Outstanding Board Development Retreat

Bloomerang

If the venue has outdoor access for team-building exercises, group work, and breaks, that’s even better. Depending on the nature of the retreat, board members may be required to take a survey, review material, complete worksheets, read books, and participate in interview calls. There are hundreds on the web.

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Interview with Greg McKeown about #EssentialLive

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I was able to interview Greg to learn more about his massive social experiment called EssentialLive to get many people to try Essentialism for a year. It isn’t just about setting New Year’s resolutions or adding a new productivity technique to try. ” says Greg.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.