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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the key qualities and skills you look for in potential board members?” Silvia Cooper from Prostate Cancer Research Institute The Combination of Passion, Skill, and Follow-Through We look at the intersection of passion and skill.

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AI advances mean we need to double down on this one skill

Fast Company Tech

For this reason, the top skills of the future include thinking skills. Algorithms reinforce biases More and more, our capacity to think, create, and problem-solve is being challenged by algorithms delivered through social media. However, AI is only ever as good as the questions we ask it. Heres why: 1.

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The future of work is skill-based

Fast Company Tech

In this environment, new hiring strategies based on evaluating a candidate’s full skillsetincluding their ability to problem-solve, think creatively, and adapt rather than solely relying on their college degreeare becoming essential for companies and organizations that want to find and retain the best talent.

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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What can we do to ensure they have the skills to understand a challenging landscape and make the wise decisions needed for success? Lately, I’ve been speaking and writing about the importance of emotional intelligence and how the softer skills add a critical dimension to digital initiatives. How do we bring novice players up to speed?

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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For the time being, the bottom line seems to be, there is no substitute for intrinsically human skills. In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems.

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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

However, those lacking the necessary skills or funding might struggle to keep up, leading to a widening gap between tech-enabled nonprofits and those left behind. These are all hard problems without an obvious solution. The post The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face Whats Next appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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When Culture is a Skill Set Leaders Reap Rewards—PCI Lives Their Values

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Associations that treat culture as a skill set are reaping rewards from their investment. Helping the group become skilled culture builders is one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve been privileged to support. You need to understand how to get the right mix of thinking and ideas to solve your problems efficiently.

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