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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

The categories that are represented should reflect qualities that directors bring to the board as well as characteristics that will enhance the organization’s growth and development. It’s a good idea to include people from outside your organization’s playing field who can introduce a different point of view and push the group forward.”.

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

People with this way of thinking tend to see challenges as opportunities, embrace failure as steppingstones to success, and persist in the face of obstacles. But how do you translate amorphous “growth” into actionable steps? This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you.

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#npfail Reflections and Call To Action from NTC Plenary on Failure

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We discussed what the reaction to failure does to us as individuals and how it can create a risk-adverse culture in our nonprofits. We had the 1500 people in the room do the failure bow – captured by here on video. As Brian Reich said, we have to get rid of our fear. More about that later. npfail #13ntcbets.

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First Reflections on Jumo

Amy Sample Ward

As Debra Askanse posted in a facebook group discussing Jumo this morning, how do follow people, and not just organizations? The reason a site for finding and following causes you care about has social features is because it isn’t just the organizations we care about that we like to follow, but also the people we care about.

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. Some Reflections. With shorter sessions with half as many people and a decent room layout, you can run the mic yourself.