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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

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Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Delivering Happiness CEO Jenn Lim Shares Insights About Four-Day Workweeks

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Jenn Lim , CEO of Delivering Happiness and Wall Street Journal -bestselling author of Beyond Happiness , will tell you that four-day workweeks can provide a sense of flexibility and autonomy that is crucial to happiness and career satisfaction. And, it allows time for play/flow/creativity to surface (our brains need time to unplug)!

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Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012

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Lehrer’s piece on the Wall Street Journal is here. Grit is a long-term metric, and though difficult to measure, it is a truer indicator than IQ or SAT scores and other static quantitative measures on the potential to achieve ultimate success. Do our grantee partners demonstrate dogged determination to get results?

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The Happy Healthy Data Nerd: Using Your Personal Health Data to Support Your Wellbeing

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I logged my sleep hours, but I also kept a journal to record my mood, ability to concentrate and personal productivity. While these subjective measures, I discovered that my magic number of sleep hours about 7 hours and 45 minutes. So, remember it is only a guide.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. It defines the outcomes of training in four different areas that you can measure. Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

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The NTEN Editorial Committee is a group of committed professionals that meet monthly to discuss content and strategy for the NTEN: Change Journal , our quarterly digital publication for nonprofit leaders. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Chris Bernard, Editorial and Communications Director, Idealware.

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DoGoodData Conference: Live Long and Prosper with Data for Good!

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I filled my journal with pages of notes, to dos, and inspiration for year long professional learning for myself. I was a little intimidated going to the conference as I was afraid that all the content would be too much on the technical side of data for my tastes.