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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

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Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. What to do?

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

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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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. 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.

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

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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. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation. ” Content'

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

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When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. It is also important to target the right level of authority.