Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

"Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things, But few of us know how to question in a methodical way," explains Frank Sesno , Emmy-award-winning journalist, and author of the book, Ask More. How and when to use empathy questions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative organizations are finding ways to make augmented and virtual reality a more efficient, and even more practical, way to interact with technologies and tools, including letting people learn complex skills through virtual training. AI-powered assessments guide users through refining their skills and improving techniques.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau. Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Get the training you need to ask the right questions, make better decisions, and grow your career. Employers want data skills.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The age-old question of whether or not good entrepreneurs are born that way, or if such entrepreneurial skill sets can be learned continues to be a debated topic. Let’s try tackling the answer to this question by defining which skill sets make for a good entrepreneur, and whether or not they can be taught.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? No matter how intuitive a system may be, there are always a few questions, tips, and tricks that a training professional can help you with so you get started on a solid foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Thus, an important question is whether LLMs are capable of algorithmic reasoning, which involves solving a task by applying a set of abstract rules that define the algorithm. By providing algorithmic prompts, we can teach a model the rules of arithmetic via in-context learning. scratchpad and chain-of-thought ).

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

So, you would think that the most pressing skill to build is in revenue generation, like fundraising , government grants, or fee-for-service programs. Yes, the number one skill that nonprofit professionals need to focus on in 2021 is marketing. The first skill to develop in seeking major gifts is prospect research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Also, by asking more questions you’ll help break down barriers, resolve challenges, encourage collaboration, and imagine new ways of doing things.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

It is a skill that we can train. When you think about learning a new sport, language, or instrument, those complex skills require quite a bit of practice. Its a learnable skill. It turns out that the way that we see the world is no different than the way that the mind processes dreams; Neuroscience teaches us that.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. When you step in the door, you come prepackaged with skills you can share. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. Suzy : Collaboration is the best skill someone can have. Seeing Millennials with those skills is great.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. . Instructors can spend hours uploading documents, copy-pasting test questions and answers, and organizing modules in their LMS.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

” Instead of instinctively going into survival mode, she said founders should ask themselves existential questions like, “Why did you start this business? ” What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? What are the fundamentals? Who are your customers? What problem are you solving?”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

As of now, this technology has already shown some degree of promise for all of the following very human psychological skills: diagnosing diseases, writing code, summarizing and teaching information, predicting markets, brainstorming, product design, project management, coaching, and much more.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. Instructors can spend hours uploading documents, copy-pasting test questions and answers, and organizing modules in their LMS. Data Literacy One goes to Canvas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Sense-making is the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed – and in a world with so much information, it is a critical workplace skill. Jarche also points to James Mangan who identified several skills for acquiring knowledge in 1936 (via Maria Popova ). What does this mean?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Ask questions. Learn and remember names. Seek out and start new relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills. Facilitated Listening Skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Question : How does spending 12 weeks using the book compare to the length of time to earn an MBA degree? Model cooperative behavior.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 30, 2024

So consider individual Board member’s level of engagement, skill, and willingness. Here’s a good list of questions to ask yourself about each Board member: Are they engaged? What skills do they have to work with? What skills do they have to work with? Do they have great people skills? They won’t do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds. The founder estimates that only 8% of teachers are accepted to teach on Coderhouse’s platform, resulting in nearly 2,000 active teachers with the company today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Her new startup, CoRise, sells expert-led programming to people who want to up-skill their careers. The startup, built by Stiglitz, Sourabh Bajaj , and Jacob Samuelson , pairs students who want to learn and improve on highly technical skills, such as devops or data science, with experts. Enter CoRise , which wants to do it all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

There are also special sections of your profile where you can list certifications, languages, patents, skills, and publications. When people browse connections on LinkedIn, it’s your headline that is displayed most prominently, so craft it to make a strong first impression and summarize your most valuable skills.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Now, for every short-answer question, Lazare writes two long sentences followed by a disjointed list of keywords — anything that seems relevant to the question. The questions are things like. He usually digs the keywords out of the article or video the question is based on. And she decided to game it. Algorithm update.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Called Reactor , the program combines curriculum from classes Miura-Ko teaches at the Stanford School of Engineering and consists of two components – a pre-summer lecture series and a summer accelerator. VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough? How did the whole thing work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes. Don’t underestimate the power of high school statistics. Collecting and using data is hard work!

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Tableau

MARCH 19, 2024

Most students are relatively new to using Tableau, and this challenge allows them to flex their data skills, learn new tricks, and network with the Tableau Community, all while competing for a spot in the top three. A professor teaching data visualization was looking for a teaching assistant to help students with Tableau,” she remembers. “I

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2013

There’s no question that the future of e-commerce is in personalization. Figuring out where to start is daunting, so I asked 9 successful founders the following question: What is one piece of data that most novice e-commerce entrepreneurs wouldn’t think about collecting to create a more customized experience? Skill Level of Clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I have been delivering virtual master classes and helping to develop their capacity building programs in digital skills. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! The next question asked us to find flaws with the solution and pass the paper to someone else. In the last question, we were asked to add a final or revised solution. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Another example includes using AI to optimize volunteer engagement by aligning opportunities with individual skills and interests. Create small low risk experiments to answer the question: does this use case make sense for our organization? In other words, use all your critical thinking skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Military Academy’s cadets, he has coached world-class athletes, a Super Bowl MVP, numerous Olympic medalists, professional ballerinas, NHL All-Stars, and college All-Americans – teaching them to overcome pressure and succeed on the world’s biggest stages. Releasing or restructuring your less successful experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! We synthesized the issues by generating a list of questions that could be used as a brainstorming questions. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Beyond translation, DeepL launched a new tool called DeepL Write, designed to help professionals improve their business writing skills. The app already offered an English tutor that could teach and converse, but the conversations felt slow and unnatural. Harvey gave the Assistant some important upgrades in August 2024.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau. Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Get the training you need to ask the right questions, make better decisions, and grow your career. Employers want data skills.

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