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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. Here they are: My Three Rituals.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. Photo by SMEXbeirut. The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups.

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MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. Applying these techniques to social platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn for thought leadership, influence, and professional learning.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Photo by George Galanais. I’ll be doing a session with colleagues Danette Peters and Roberto Cremonini on Outcomes, Impact, and Communication where will not only share some case studies and techniques for outcome-based evaluation, but model some small group facilitation techniques for the process.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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JUNE 10, 2014

I gave a keynote about the Human Side of Data for Good and facilitated a mini-innovation lab to brainstorm creative ideas around the challenge of communicating about the value of shared data and becoming the community knowledge center for shared data for donors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders. Photo by Rachel Calderon.

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JULY 6, 2010

I first met Joitske back in 2005 through Nancy White’s online facilitation workshop. techniques all over the world. .&# Joitske is an expert in change management and technology adoption and is a trainer who was taught web 2.0 techniques all over the world. technologies.

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JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Photo by Amanda/Flicker. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. This technique is simple. Here’s some step-by-step or eye-by-eye instructions.

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MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Or the last photo in their phone.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization. It is so easy to just do the same old thing all the time, but there is some discomfort in creating something new. I want to explore the methods and techniques for optimizing creativity and applying it your work.

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MAY 15, 2012

Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. by Jane Bozarth, Editor. by Jane Bozarth. by Sharon Bowman.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. This is similar to the pomodoro technique.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. The term Peeragogy came fluttering through my network, like a butterfly, and it caught my interest. It resonated.

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MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Photo by Devon Smith. Rob Cottingham.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Photo by Beth Kanter. Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much). I was invited to facilitate an opening plenary with three people who have lived inside successful networks for a couple of years to think big about the power of networks.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. The above is an example of how to do this with pen and paper, another way is to use apps called Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. What is your favorite journaling technique? Do you keep a journal?

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. Use images in every communication #21CapitalCamp.

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JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Staff were asked to use a technique called “ Rose, Bud, Thorn ” to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities for change.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Photo By h.koppdelaney. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. This book will help. Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development. I do this all the time.

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MAY 20, 2013

One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. Connecting Up Master Class.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Other times, I simply made them stretch like the photo above.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. It keeps you from being creative, stops us, but here is a technique to get past it: The failure bow. Flickr Photo from Employment Now. (2) Now you are ready to learn!

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JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It I’ve trained myself with the 18 minutes technique to avoid temptation of looking at friends’ dog photos that way while I am working.).

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JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. ” The Failure Bow (Click for Photo for More Information). The “learnings” items must each have a metaphor.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. To share techniques and low costs tools for data visualization that nearly any user can begin using quickly.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do numbers only matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. The only valid data is quantitative data.

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APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We did this on Day 1. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

Photo by Goldberg. I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. What happens a lot is that someone might try it, experience discomfort and immediately stop.

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MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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