NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. You could also review each job description and add essential and helpful skills. Everyone is already so busy. How will we hold space for developing technology skills?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For nonprofits working with limited resources and staff, the prospect of adapting a new practice or technology can seem extra intimidating—even if it promises to make everyone’s job easier in the long run. That’s where change management comes in. Change management: What is it?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If If you are ready to embrace change as a central element of your growth strategy, this book is for you.” Homkes’ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

This tool is a game-changer in elevating the advancement, recruitment and admissions, student success, communication, and other critical business capabilities of your institution. Just like any technology, realizing success on the Salesforce platform takes careful maintenance, dedication to change management, and intentional roadmap planning.

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

Their business models depend on this. My response is that every business makes investments based on their return. The organizations behind the cloud-based services can afford the latest tools, technologies, and talent to ensure that the data they’re hosting is as secure as possible.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. And even change management is changing as well. In their book, the authors use eight themes to offer guidance on how to change perspective and view the enterprise as a living organization, enabled by technology. “The

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Forum One

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some common focus areas for investments in government digital transformation might include using and optimizing data and analytics collection, updating IT infrastructures, migrating data and files to a cloud storage, and facilitating change management. Organize for success.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Some well-paying jobs only require trade school or technical education programs, and those certifications take far less than four years to earn. Colleges and universities offer good-paying jobs, produce new talent for the area, and attract other businesses.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

NTEN member Sean Watson brought up his concern about the lack of staffing around, and interest in, "business processes" in most nonprofit organizations. Here's a little more background from him on this topic: " I spent my days at [a for-profit company] working with managers on process improvement.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Leaders often blame change managers or teams who do not control the source or circumstances which cause the “failure.” tools that they need to help their workers become more efficient at their jobs. What constitutes change failure / success inside and outside of your organization? Most organizations lack the enterprise 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2012

DO accept a technology donation from a(n extremely busy) board member! Definitely DON’T look at TechSoup’s sample technology budget to find out how to do this: [link] DON’T put technology in someone’s formal job description. It’s because I’ve seen far too many instances of these DOs and DON’Ts in practice at nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. Our host, Rachel “Seacrest”, and the judges did a great job of moving things along and lacing the presentations with some clever silliness.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

A commodity is a technology that is transactional in nature and may improve your efficiency but does not fundamentally change your business. In the end, changing the way your organization uses technology needs to start with setting a direction. Your nonprofit is not in the technology business.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19!

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

If you get nothing else from this post, please repeat after me: diversity is a tool for helping you achieve your business objectives. Thus, before undertaking a human resources initiative, you must do some soul-searching and define your business goals for diversity. But this is our job. This is really important. And they will.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Technology isn’t going to create a business process where one doesn’t exist. My job as both an organizational and technology leader is to make sure our technology is serving our mission. Fact is, if you lead a small organization, you are going to have to work twice as hard to do what other organizations can hire someone to do.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Whichever solution or solutions you choose, there are steps to minimize adoption challenges and ensure a more seamless transition for busy boardmembers. First , use the right tool for the job —additional features and functionality will only confuse if they’re not necessary.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Usually, this is the most inspiring part of my job. Then, last week, I spent some time chatting with a colleague about the challenges of running an organization, and the toll it can take on your personal life, and I let out the ED's familiar lament: "I wish I could make more time to just read and think, but we're so busy, I can't."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. I have some clients who are choosing to stay in their job, and then build things on the side, but because they know they are putting focus and energy on their idea, or their project, they feel better. How does it work?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Plan Monthly Job Learning Days Having your employees learn more about what their fellow employees do is invaluable. Activities like these help your team to bond.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You are super busy for a couple of reasons why that I’m going to mention here in a second, but it’s awesome to have you back. What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people? It is the best job that a young person could probably have ever. It is the best job that a young person could probably have ever.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 7, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? It all depends on what that leader does or doesnt do.Good management and leadership skills can be learned.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Is it easy for your customers to: Buy from you? Make returns? Get pricing and terms? Receive timely responses to their e-mails?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We knew we didn’t want to get into the print publications business – we’re a technology organization! With support from Google, we were able to launch this new resource and provide it for free to the nonprofit community: [link] But What’s New About This Publication? As a bonus, most of these subscribers are new to NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2006

I clicked through to her web site and discovered that she also happens to be the author a change management book called " Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas." s Ear Managers are sometimes hard to convince in a group setting, so meet privately to address any concerns. The title intrigued me.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? It all depends on what that leader does or doesnt do.Good management and leadership skills can be learned.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When you’re moving to a new association management software (AMS) system, having the right project team in place makes all the difference. You need the team’s input and support as you select and configure the new solution, streamline business processes along the way, and roll out the new AMS to the entire organization.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What business goals can Salesforce help nonprofits achieve? Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps for-profits and nonprofits to manage their customer experience. We identify gaps and help the folks in the current system expedite their tasks while minimizing resistance to change.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. I can't give you an answer in my job, but I can as a dad: I love it. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. So how do you do that?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. I believe business plans are critical to any business — new or old. The 194-page shows business leaders how to write a plan in about one hour so it fits on a single sheet of paper.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But the truth is, the Salesforce team did an amazing job of making attendees feel safe. Salesforce isn’t a business, it is an economy of trust,” shared Benioff, going so far as to rename the community of Administrators and Architects who identify as Trailblazers to Trustblazers. Customer-first. Digital HQ. Health & Safety.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

At a previous job, I suggested we move from using three Access databases and individual employees’ email programs and spreadsheets to a more robust, centralized, and informative cloud-based Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. And, in case you were wondering, the transition finally did happen. It only took 2 years.)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal. Next on the list is benefits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. One of the best ways I've found to retain employees is to engage them in the business planning process.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And some may love the tech part of their jobs, but it will remain a small, incidental (accidental?) I often refer back to a 2003 article by Barbara Kaufman published in University Business magazine called Transforming Your CIO. I always tell people that my job is 50% knowledge and skill, and 50% knowing the people I work for.

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