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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. It’s a structure that preserves accountability.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

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Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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The afternoon was a space for structured interaction between participants to examine their impact leadership questions and to provide some peer advice. The small group exercises required that each person practice facilitated listening. Above is a word cloud of the transcribed burning questions. Overnight Reflection.

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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

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Ushahidi member Patrick Meier interpreted the JRC results as suggesting that "unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake."

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

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This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program.

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

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Peer Assist: There are many ways to structure a peer assist where participants listen to each other’s challenges and provide advice. One of my favorites is called Troika Consulting from Liberating Structures. 1-2-4-All: This facilitation process comes from Liberating Structures. The first rotation is a quiet reflection alone.

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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“