Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In addition to getting to catch up with friends, partners, and colleagues, bbcon 2023 is packed with learning opportunities specific to finance. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table. They need information that helps them make data-driven decisions.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And, because everyone loves change and learning new technology, you aren’t anticipating any challenges when communicating this decision or providing training to impacted teams across campus. The Four Stages of Learning . Disclaimer: No elephants were harmed or eaten during the creation of this blog post.) .

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Solution providers also have proven approaches to product adoption as the challenges for implementing analytics platforms and the associated change management are similar across associations. Associations across the board request similar dashboards and visualizations to help them accomplish their goals, which is why we built Acumen.

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Candid

APRIL 8, 2024

We value and celebrate the diversity of our ideas, backgrounds, and experiences as they help us better understand one another and better serve our communities and constituents. They require us to learn, adapt, and iterate. And we look to engage with and seek guidance from experts in the field to continue learning and improving.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

The drain on human capital was immense and was compounded by the need to pull others away from their core jobs to help. By thinking freely, I had no problem considering outrageous ideas to help, but my leadership brain applied the necessary guardrails to make practical and cost-effective decisions.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit firms have now, however, transitioned to long-term partners, particularly for nonprofits contemplating transformative system or operational changes. The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The intention was not to shame or punish the child for "mistakes" in behavior, but provide an opportunity for reflection and learning. Here is a quick brainstorm of questions we could ask that might help networks reflect more effectively. Questions to Help Deep Reflection Occur. What could you learn or capture from that?

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Reflection Social Media Learning Media 89

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To successfully implement changes to your grantmaking application, you need to communicate the benefits of data-driven and user-centered design to your leadership, tie the benefits to your organization’s overall goals, and involve your leadership in the decision-making process. Does your application match your values?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We talked with leaders from five organizations that manage grant funding and here are their best practices for establishing strong grant management processes. Will this help you launch a program or expand your reach? Learn the requirements. Learn the language and history. Focus on the why. Keep the momentum going.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Today, I bring back one of my most-read blog posts from 2017. It read as follows: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Notice what is true about others and help them find their potential. Be authentic and real, and listen generously.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. For whom is monitoring, evaluation, and learning being done?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Reset, or how to change, is the heart of SRT. You must execute with agility and learn along the way to a sustainable, successful, high-growth path. Growth is a learning cycle with constant loops of testing, gaining insights, implementing, sharing, and iterating for improvement. Optimize for robustness, not just efficiency.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

Just like any technology, realizing success on the Salesforce platform takes careful maintenance, dedication to change management, and intentional roadmap planning. You can use the competency model to determine gaps between your staffing and your staffing needs which will help you develop your training and enablement plan. .

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

What can we learn from Caesar? Challenge yourself to help others challenge themselves. Will you help your stakeholders challenge themselves to create personal and professional success by tapping into unknown greatness? Or will you stifle their ability to become change agents and lead them with a heavy hand?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Each instructor can emphasize different chapters and make the class their own, but everyone is learning from the same book. Understanding that will help you highlight those factors to other interested students. These tips can help jump start your graduate recruitment practice. Think of this as picking the same textbook.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But you do have good critical thinking skills, and by getting answers to a few specific questions from your current or potential fund accounting vendor, you can better understand if their system will help your organization grow—or hold you back. It’s also helpful to know how often the courses are updated.

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Fund Question System Integration 84

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

Change is inevitable. Change is good. Help your employees and team learn to embrace change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

NTEN and Jossey-Bass/Wiley is hosting the " Online NTC ," a 2-day online conference based on the book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. It is a learning event to help you better understand how to manage technology. They Just Won't Listen to Reason (Chapter on Change Management with Dahna Goldstein.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different. Learning, we do naturally. Fast forward to today….

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

What happens when a new hire with a head full of ideas wants to switch to the software they used in their last job or learned about in college? Please join me in a discussion to learn more about innovation creep, school software, and data management. The post Combatting Innovation Creep first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 5, 2021

Today, I bring back one of my most-read blog posts from 2017. It read as follows: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Notice what is true about others and help them find their potential. Be authentic and real, and listen generously.

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People Influence Leadership Blended 52

sgEngage

JULY 26, 2023

Your legal counsel can help you understand how the changing laws apply to your organization’s data collection, usage, and storage. Once you know which requirements apply to you, check out the software features that can help you meet those requirements.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

This document will help new team members absorb your unique grantmaking process and keep everyone on the same page. Tap a more experienced team member to review the new member’s work to ensure the new staff member is following your organization’s data management best practices. It is a constant process of updating and verifying.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2023

Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode. WTF?) -- Changing The Way Businesses Create Experiences. And, he explains how experience design helps your business and how you can harness its power for business growth. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Lately, we’ve been working with our Managed Services clients to consolidate Process Builders and Workflow Rules to Flows, and the most recent updates to Flow Builder will significantly enhance those initiatives. Read to learn more! . You May Also Enjoy: Blog: What Is Salesforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Today, I bring back one of my most-read blog posts from a few years ago: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Notice what is true about others and help them find their potential. Be authentic and real, and listen generously.

Leadership 52

Leadership Influence Blended Language 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 4, 2024

Yet, as the calendar moves into a new year, what better way to kick off 2024 than with learning to think in the gray, and to challenge yourself as a leader. Most often there is middle, and that middle is the gray area that will help recognize the context needed to make a reasonable decision. What is Gray Thinking?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Change is inevitable. Change is good. Help your employees and team learn to embrace change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

She writes about how to drive change, manage transitions, and help any organization turn around. Jenkins-Scott believes that the strongest leaders have these characteristics: Curiosity : A desire to continuously learn, discover, and grow intellectually. Empathy : The ability to feel and appreciate other human beings.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

Cloud for Good, and the entire Salesforce ecosystem, can help prepare and support you during this transition. The experience you’ve gained building business processes and developing security protocols in a Salesforce-based technology solution will greatly help you get up and running with NPSP. Learn from Past Salesforce Success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

She writes about how to drive change, manage transitions, and help any organization turn around. Jenkins-Scott believes that the strongest leaders have these characteristics: Curiosity : A desire to continuously learn, discover, and grow intellectually. Empathy : The ability to feel and appreciate other human beings.

Leadership 52

Leadership Language Reflection Change Management 52

sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

While studies show that workers with bachelor’s degrees have higher lifetime earnings and lower poverty rates than those without, technology has changed the workforce. Sharing resources, pooling expertise, and creating joint programs can help institutions achieve efficiencies and increase their attractiveness to students.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 15, 2020

She writes about how to drive change, manage transitions, and help any organization turn around. Jenkins-Scott believes that the strongest leaders have these characteristics: Curiosity : A desire to continuously learn, discover, and grow intellectually. Empathy : The ability to feel and appreciate other human beings.

Leadership 52

Leadership Language Reflection Change Management 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 26, 2020

At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Notice what is true about others and help them find their potential. Communicating potential helps people access their strengths. Be authentic and real, and listen generously. Be Passionate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

She writes about how to drive change, manage transitions, and help any organization turn around. Jenkins-Scott believes that the strongest leaders have these characteristics: Curiosity : A desire to continuously learn, discover, and grow intellectually. Empathy : The ability to feel and appreciate other human beings.

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Leadership Language Reflection Change Management 54