Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Not only do we have our daily work tasks but we also have more meetings, longer commutes, and more interactions with more people in more locations than at any time in the history of work. People are social creatures and it is common for friends and colleagues to share challenges they are experiencing. Comparing: It happened to me!

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Bloomerang

MARCH 12, 2025

Determined to get ahead of them the next time, I prepped meticulously, loaded the lesson with skill-building drills, and checked all the traditional boxes. I had taught hundreds of people to swimkids, adults, and everyone in betweenand this was new. People can tell when leaders are in it for themselves. Same result.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Danika Harrod October 22, 2024 - 5:46pm Larissa Amoroso Vice President, Tableau Community, Tableau Tableau Academic Ambassador Dr. Mary Dunaway has spent years empowering students and educators with skills such as data visualization. Now, she's taking her passion for data to the global stage, having been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

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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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

Quality, dedicated nonprofit volunteers and skilled staff are the key to any successful mission. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” But how do you find them, and once you’ve got them, how do you keep them around?

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Microsoft AI

APRIL 30, 2024

Microsoft's digital and AI skilling programs in Southeast Asia are empowering people from diverse backgrounds to succeed in the digital economy.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It not only impacts people’s day-to-day financials, but also their morale at work, job acceptance, as well as their retention. A lot of people in their early to mid-30s are not homebuyers yet; a lot of people are delaying starting a family; and theres a lot of factors, but I think student loan debt is one of those factors.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

Nearly all job growth since 1980 has been in occupations that are social-skill intensive. Not surprisingly, a Stanford study shows that people working collaboratively persist on a task for 64% longer than those working individually on the same task, and they exhibit higher levels of engagement.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Many companies report low utilization of VTO, however, so nonprofits that encourage people to check their employer’s VTO policy when signing up as a volunteer can tap into this underutilized benefit. Look at tools such as Double the Donation to see if your corporate volunteers are eligible for Dollars for Doers grants or matching gifts.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Then there's the desire of Meta's Mark Zuckerberg for more "masculine energy" in corporate America, which only added to the feeling that Silicon Valley was growing ever more hostile to women and People of Color. One thing we are really focused on this year is expanding our impact to reach more people and continuing to enhance our curriculum.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

With competition for skilled professionals rising and work environments shifting, finding and keeping great talent takes more than just passion. Crafting a Compelling Employer Brand People want to work where they know theyll make a difference. It takes strategy.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Skills and People Needed to Launch a Fundraising Program If you’re new to fundraising, don’t worry—many of the skills needed to succeed are likely already present within your organization. It is always a bonus if your team has personal qualities like integrity, leadership skills, and outstanding manners.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

In his timely, must-read book, Wetzler shows you a powerful method called The Ask Approach™ , based on a simple premise: that tapping into what other people truly think, know, and feel is a game-changing superpower for leaders. Make it Safe : How you make it easier for people to tell you hard things. Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Charity Village

JULY 2, 2024

The Canadian Council for Indigenous Business, in partnership with the Diversity Institute, presents Skills for Inclusive Workplaces and the Advancement of Indigenous Peoples. Diversity in the workplace […] The post New report explores experience of Indigenous Peoples in leadership positions appeared first on CharityVillage.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Instead of becoming butterflies and exploring what it’s like to fly, your people prefer the safety of their cocoons. And what do people fear most? This time from Travis Bradberry , author and Chief People Scientist, LeadX, “Digital transformation is not just about technology; it’s about people.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some of that adaptation will require higher educational attainment, or spending more time on activities that require social and emotional skills, creativity, high-level cognitive capabilities, and other skills relatively hard to automate.” Organizations are realizing that people are the only asset that doesn’t depreciate.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sometimes people want to support a local nonprofit, but they dont know where to start. Make it easy for people to volunteer. People take pride in their work, so dont forget to share your successes with volunteers. Here are five ideas to make that happen: * Share giving recipes to spark creative volunteerism. Recognize them.

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CIO Dive

MARCH 20, 2025

People management and communications also ranked among the top 10 engineering skills in highest demand, according to a LinkedIn report.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Although leadership courses may be part of more recent IT management degrees, relationship building is a skill that requires commitment and practice. If you feel as though your job would be perfect—if you could just eliminate the people, consider taking steps to improve your interpersonal skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2021

The reality is there is no way nonprofits can hire for every need and every skill set. Hiring for everything is great when your budget and workload are high, but when they’re low, the drain of underutilized, highly-skilled and paid employees can create a serious risk to your mission. Who’s got your back?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. The strongest recommendation in this article is that you invest in building skills in using Facebook Ads inside your organisation. . 3) Understand Facebook Ad objectives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

When you’re busy working towards fulfilling your nonprofit’s mission, it can be easy to forgo the time needed to invest in “auxiliary” tasks that build your skills and fuel your mission. These were skills that would have made the transition after COVID-19 began much smoother. What new skills do you want to cultivate?

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A recent study conducted by researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon suggested that the more people used AI and as they placed increased trust in its answers the more their critical thinking skills atrophied , like a muscle that doesn't get much use. And some research may back up the sentiment.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It’s hard to deny the fact that we are drawn to people like us. How can we support women, people of color, and other minorities in achieving leadership roles? Pairing people of different backgrounds and experience, or “bridge mentoring,” requires more intentionality and effort than casual arrangements. are Asian, and 3.8%

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

This can be daunting for people who dont work in technology. Not being skilled in AI isnt a deal-breaker. Even if you are far from an AI expert, you should highlight your curiosity about the technology in your interviewing process, notes Gillian Davis, chief people officer at strategic communications firm Mission North.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Moving into the executive ranks often means leading the very people you once worked alongside. Leadership requires a new skill set and, just as importantly,the respect and trust of your peers. For example, some people are motivated by public recognition, but others arent. Start with those people.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

A mission team—like any team, anywhere—needs competent people who work well together,” Bell advises. “In In our models, we assume that astronauts are intelligent, that they’re experts in their technical areas, and that they have at least some teamwork skills. Building a great team starts with hiring the right people.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

I reflected on the people that I planned to see that day and chose one thing that Id like to thank them for. It is a skill that we can train. Most people would consider their mind more important than their teeth. There are some people who think: I’m going to meditate and get relaxed.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Promova , whose mission is to make language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent, is the first language learning app to build a dedicated setting for those with dyslexiaa specialized typeface and adjustments to font size and brightness help mitigate some of the most common reading challenges that people with dyslexia experience.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Value the Level of Experience Needed Just because a person loves talking with people doesnt make them a good fundraiser. Your best-in-class finance team requires different levels of skills and experience depending on their role. Its helpful to have people who understand general accounting and finance terms and best practices.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Like most people, I was once part of the new generation entering the workforce. I remember reading countless articles pontificating on the imperfections and presumed deficits of the entire cohort of people my age. These are all valuable skills, especially in a world where you get a fraction of a second to capture supporters attention.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

Until about 15 years ago, many professions were dominated by a single segment of people. Seek a Portfolio of Ideas A good mix of demographic and cultural backgrounds adds vitality and equity to board deliberations; however, it doesn’t necessarily guarantee a variety of thinking, problem-solving skills, or professional experience.

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Candid

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Concerns about AI’s complexity and the technical skills needed to ensure data privacy, security, and fairness are valid and warrant consideration. This helps speed up and informs how an organization can best respond to reach more people, without duplicating efforts. Sustainability and cost efficiency.

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Futurism

MARCH 13, 2025

Though typically smeared as Neanderthals scared of progress, Luddites of all stripes have historically been highly-skilled workers whose resistance to tech had more to do with wresting control of it from the grip of capitalists , rather than the equipment itself.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Over time people have come to value the advantages of working at home. One bit of wisdom is that like most skills, managing a remote team is both easier and more complicated than we could have imagined. Even those people who vow to never set foot in an office again will admit the in-person world held some attractions.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

And our virtual communication skills were not up to the task of addressing those negative emotions. As the tech problems subsided, people became better at communicating through the small screen. These five competencies are the core of the EI skill set. But people tend to hear what they want or expect you to say.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Human drivers center digital initiatives where they need to be—on people. Build the Human Skills AI and EI might seem to be an odd couple for any number of reasons. But when I think about what distinguishes an association from a for-profit organization, it’s still the idea of belonging to a group of like-minded people.

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