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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

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Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? Did your last facilitator stand behind a lectern and drone on like a record playing in slow motion? Facilitate and engage with confidence. Were they unengaging? Credibility.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches.

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Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workplaces: How To Kick the Sit Out It

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And, of course, my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit has a lot about this topic and bringing it into the workplace. They request a copy of the discussion guide or slides so they can create a visual lexicon of key concepts to use during the session. I learned this from ETR’s facilitator tips.

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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

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In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” ” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

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I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 NTC this year talking about the ideas in his recent book, “ Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work.” From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. I thought was done!

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Getting Started Again (After A Break)

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” I had the honor of doing a Care2 webinar in December which was one of over 40 book talks, presentations, webinars, and workshops to launch the book. The book continues to be in the top nonprofit books at Amazon. But by holiday season, I needed a break and took one.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. I was able to rearrange an area for viewing presentations slides and have enough space for participants to move around for full group exercises.

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