Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education. ” This core competency of organizing is vital to the success of individuals in the training field. As it is difficult to make the most of the training if the concern of the trainees lies elsewhere. Assigning Priority. Avoid Distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

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Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs.

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

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. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Teach Change Exercise Social 50

Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This book can teach you how to incorporate a storytelling framework into your communications that shows supporters how they are the true heroes in advancing your cause. Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron. Happy reading!

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Free Help Fundraising Storytelling 119

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This blog series is designed to help nonprofit professionals like you make subtle mindset shifts that can make a big difference in your work, as well as increase your job satisfaction. . When you start to doubt your story, remember that stories teach skills, generate passion, and help others feel understood.

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Community Story Life Brain 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Celebrated my 9th Year of Blogging: I continued to blog or host guest posts regularly every week as I have been doing for the past nine years. Year in Review.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” Training Design' Incorporating Movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. I involved in what I call “room hacking,” (when you have to rearrange furniture in a training room to accommodate a more interactive style of delivery). I also had them move them chairs back at the end. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Learning 91

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. For an additional recap of DevOps Dreamin’ 2022, visit Gearset’s post-event wrap-up blog.

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Chicago Knowledge Practice Attitude 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.”

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Content Brain Technique Lecture 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

Danielle Brigida, NWF – Training Staff. How can you train and coordinate all staff on social to scale your strategy? Read Danielle’s blog post ). Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Lisa Bunker (@mutabilis) March 10, 2013.

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Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I was thrilled to see this blog SSIR blog post, Five Myths that Perpetuate Burnout Across Nonprofits by Ann-Sophie Morrissette. Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. This summer I was lucky enough to do a network training with June Holley. What are some ways that you have incorporated movement or polling technology into your training or meeting?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

He further explains that improvisation takes technique, training, practice, thoughtfulness and intelligence. Kulhan, who was trained in improv by notables including Amy Poehler and Tina Fey , also teaches you in his book the powerful difference between "Yes, and." is a technique that slows the brain down. and "Yes, but."

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Business Attitude Brain Technique 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam. Program Design. Participants Own Their Learning.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For example, I asked the runners to line up from “just bought my nikes&# to “training for my third 30 mile marathon.&#. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

Congrats to Megha Bhagat , Winner of HP Laptop/Printer Bundle Contest that I ran on my blog last month. Her blog is here. To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. Megha Bhagat. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India.

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Contest Laptop India Change 76

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. and teaches yoga in San Francisco. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training. The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. I asked "how can I help?"

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Fun San Francisco Classes Teach 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Incorporate Different Delivery Options. It can be deadly on a webinar, when participants can easily be distracted and start doing other work like answering their email online.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Why does this matter to those of us in the Training, Learning, and Development field? Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them. In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers.

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Learning Social Learning Environment Classroom 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

My work consists of interactive talks, workshops, trainings, and coaching. Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. What are your favorite podcasts and blogs that you read that are on mindfulness? This year, I’ll also be offering online courses and programs. Anything else you want to share?

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Life Arts Digital Work 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

These skills are: self-management and attention training. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance.

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Product Nonprofit Attention Skills 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. I think this style is a better match for social media as well as social media training. I said yes.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Your body makes a great piece of cardiovascular and resistance training equipment. You’re combining your cardiovascular and resistance training together, so it’s a shorter workout.

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Exercise Europe Training Train 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

The more you train yourself to listen for content, emotion, and action, the less you'll have room to take in external distractions. Jeff Wetzler Today, Wetzler shares these insights with us: Question: Do you believe both introverted and extraverted people can be equally successful at learning and then using the skills you teach in your book?

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People Skills Question Teach 84

Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Whether it’s Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing Nursing Education, or training for other healthcare specialties, the education must align with specific accreditation regulations. It could even lead to dangerous situations if members are completing courses teaching outdated practices that are no longer widely accepted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. Tell us about your blog? How long have you been blogging? What do you blog about?

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Wiki Technorati RSS Nonprofit 50

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. uses artificial intelligence that has been trained on billions of real-world examples. Fundwriter further trains this AI using nonprofit-specific writing samples from websites to appeals to proposals to social posts.

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

I'm live blogging from the Games for Change Conference in NYC. " In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. Games teach this.

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Game Conference Teach Switzerland 50

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are annual reports, grant applications, website pages, blogs, appeal letters, policy docu­ments, procedure manuals, thank you notes, press releases, program reports, research papers, legal documents, advertising copy, board orientation documents, promotional material, and much more. Would volunteers benefit from a training manual?

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Tips Nonprofit Sample Skills 95