Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

The company’s product, a mobile app , focuses on teaching leadership skills to the younger generations more accustomed to learning in smaller chunks, often on the go. Given that we have all either worked for a manager who could have used some more training, or been that manager ourselves, the idea isn’t a bad one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I got many new ideas for a workshop and peer learning program I’m designing on social media ROI and measurement. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media.

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Qgiv

APRIL 13, 2022

If you need to fund your activities but need a little inspiration to come up with ways to get folks giving, try these 10 youth fundraising ideas for proven and innovative fundraisers you can host at your youth nonprofit. The first of our youth fundraising ideas is a car wash fundraiser. Car wash fundraiser. Chores for cash.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Here are 31 fun, unique fundraising ideas that will support your programs without exhausting your members. Here are a few fundraising ideas to take your fundraising beyond your offering plates. Youth Group Fundraising Ideas. Small Church Fundraising Ideas. Want to bring your fundraising to the next level?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Wendy : First, there’s this idea that Millennials want to go their own way and be outside institutions. In the for profit world, though, there’s more leadership development. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Zooop — fast-forward to 2008: Charity Navigator gets new executive leadership in Ken Berger. We can believe it when we see it, but Charity Navigator has ideas about bringing outcomes reporting into its CN3.0. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week I was honored to teach a Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshop at the 1440 Multiversity Nonprofit Service Week. This beautiful retreat center is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains and offers professional development on a wide range of leadership, wellness, and other topics. These are just a few ideas. … Read More

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

We must teach them the bigger picture of global issues and prepare them to use their future thought leadership and resources to participate in global change making. There are great organizations already doing the work of cultivating and promoting leadership among girls around the world, such as GirlUp and Shes the First.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Silicon Valley loves to celebrate the cult of the dropout — the inspired entrepreneur who decides that traditional education isn’t for her because it teaches her nothing of relevance, slows her down, and, in a world of readily available information, no longer gates learning resources like it once did.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2017

households with at least one dog according to ASPCA, many of us don't have to go far to learn about leadership. That's because, according to co-authors Krissi and Dan Barr , dogs can teach humans a lot about leadership. Leadership is an art, not a science. Sounds like some fairly significant leadership traits.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Applications and nominations for the Tableau Community’s most prestigious leadership program are officially open! Though we’re replacing the name, the selection criteria and expectations remain the same: Tableau experts who raise the bar of what’s possible with Tableau through teaching, sharing, and collaboration. Bronwen Boyd.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 1, 2014

Today, many of the most successful organizations on the planet intentionally use storytelling as a key leadership tool ,” explains Smith. Several companies, such as Kimberly-Clark , actively teach storytelling skills to their leaders. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leade With A Story Leadership Paul Smith Storytelling'

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Tableau

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Applications and nominations for the Tableau Community’s most prestigious leadership program are officially open! Though we’re replacing the name, the selection criteria and expectations remain the same: Tableau experts who raise the bar of what’s possible with Tableau through teaching, sharing, and collaboration. Bronwen Boyd.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Introduce them to your leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. I also continued my position as Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s what the NTEN team said about voting: We received more than 400 ideas this year — a 75% increase over last year — and we need your help to narrow those down to the 100 or so that will make the 2011 NTC the best one yet. Leadership. Vote today! I’m not gonna lie: this is not a quick & easy task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Leadership training on communications styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2014

If you register for NTEN’s first-ever Leading Change Summit this September (#14LCS), you’ll be asked to choose one of three tracks— Digital Strategy , The Future of Technology , or Impact Leadership —and you’ll spend quite a bit of time with your track-mates at the Summit. And check out the full lineup of #14LCS speakers and facilitators !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2012

I’m attending the MCON12 a virtual conference to explore ideas, strategies, and to hear directly from experts on how to organize millennial engagement programs. Millennials education teaches them to be the king of the castle, not the grunts to get the coffee. It is all being done online through video streaming and chats.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Your path starts at Stage 1, which is just having the idea and deciding to go for it. I had absolutely NO IDEA what I had said yes to. Fortunately, I had some experience in marketing that gave me ideas about how to fundraise and help the nonprofit. Other things, I had no idea about. Idea #1: Start with people you know.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

This anxiety-induced thought played like a broken record in my head as my first leadership training event approached in my new role as a training director. But its critical that you teach others how to see and use you in a new way so that you can advance to more strategic levels of leadership. This is easier said than done.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership. I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don't have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be decisive 20.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! We need to let go of the idea that we are serving our constituents, and recognize the ways we could be working together to change their lives, their neighborhoods, and beyond. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I was watching comedian and political commentator Bill Maher talk about Reverse Improvement (RI), and it struck me how profoundly relevant this idea is to the leadership challenges highlighted in this article and the themes weve explored in my upcoming book, TRANSCEND: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

In order to accomplish as much as possible, I have lived many of the idea around personal resilience in my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Resilience: This relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Leadership Development.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management New Year''s Resolutions'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. During the class, Dean Nancy Smyth related the idea to a social work technique called “ Motivational Interviewing ,” using in addiction interventions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management New Year''s Resolutions'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Last week, I was honored to do the keynote workshop at the Peel Leadership Center’s TimeOut Conference in Toronto, Canada. I was invited to teach an interactive workshop based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit on how to link self-care with well being in the workplace. I learned this from ETR’s facilitator tips.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Watching the shifts in engagement between these age groups, between demographics any any number of other subsets of your membership, is paramount and can teach so much to the staff, if they’re looking. Test long-held organizational beliefs and prove to your leadership that’s sometimes the old way of doing things is the wrong way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don''t have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you''ve been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be decisive 20.

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