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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. As one who has always considered their work in the sector a “ calling ” versus a job, I’ve been lucky to have some amazing mentors. 5 Reasons Why Should Make Mentoring A Priority by Porter Gale.

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What Do Members Want?

Association Analytics

We want to know what people want from us, what they want to do next. It seems though like a gulf is growing – or perhaps has been there for a long time – between the perception of the member need, and what people actually want. Do we even know what they care about? On top of that is the issue of the sampling bias itself.

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15 steps to launch your own startup, part 5: Mentors, preparing for change, and being nice

The Next Web

Find advisors and mentors to build your business. Throughout this series I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I’m lucky to have mentors and advisors on my side, helping me to define a strategy for building 6Wunderkinder and Wunderlist. Together, they allowed us to start this company in a big way – they were investors and mentors.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

.orgSource

Even when board members come to the job with some financial background, they may not be familiar with nonprofit accounting standards , their new leadership responsibilities, or your organization’s statements. Yes, you can get people to put down their phones and pay attention. Younger members in particular may need coaching.

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Your Nonprofit Team: Attracting, Retaining Talent

The NonProfit Times

Crafting a Compelling Employer Brand People want to work where they know theyll make a difference. Share stories of lives changed, highlight your teams dedication, and let your mission shine in everything from your website to job postings. Offer mentoring, leadership development workshops, and training tailored to nonprofit careers.

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AI is coming for the laptop class

Recode by Vox

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images My entire job takes place on my laptop. Laptop jobs have many charms: the lack of a commute or dress code, the location flexibility, the absence of real physical strain. As AIs have improved at laptop job tasks, progress on more physical work has been slower.

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Overqualified and underchallenged? Here’s how to make it work

Fast Company Tech

Cultivate cross-departmental relationships The strategy I’ve seen transform this situation for many people time and time again is to cultivate relationships across departmental lines deliberately. Her advanced skills perfectly filled their gap, and her job satisfaction soared within weeks, if not days.

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