Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As systems and processes are being re-written, it’s an ideal time to set new goals, experiment with different processes, and emerge stronger on the other side of your transition. This is the time to question how things have always been done and consider changes that will expand your institution’s reach. You’ve got this!

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

This can cause problems when tasks fall through the cracks or emails go to inboxes that no longer exist. As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s recognizing the ways you typically take information and apply it may not be the process your organization needs to move forward. Recognize what’s not serving you so you can make time for new approaches. Instead of providing direct answers to their problems, how are you helping them solve their own conundrums? Not get stuck.

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Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. In the 2021 survey, 92.2%

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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. FAQs on government digital transformation.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. Learning can be formal or informal, designed or serendipitous, individual or collective.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

You can pull in different report metrics and filters to get the information you need to make decisions. It is tailor-made for that organization and does everything the customer needs it to do in the way that works best for that team at that point in time. When you do update, it’s time consuming and costly.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring fundraising success is more important than ever and our team at Blackbaud is monitoring the latest trends coming out of our Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management community to help our customers stay relevant and innovative. . Mastering change management to usher in digital transformation .

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In the introduction to the Change Management Strategies Series I mention three major factors effecting change. These include an organized implementation plan, communication, and management buy-in. This blog will focus on management buy-in. See Also: Change Management Strategies for LMS Implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

These things should be efficient but are not, mostly because of human problems, such as poor communication, resistance to compliance, forgetfulness and so on. committees, teams, and processes) that are flexible, informal, provisional, have provisional leadership, and are always open to new people.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The 2013 Community of Impact cohorts will focus on two real problems, opportunities, or business solutions. What are the biggest problems facing nonprofits that we could work together to address? What are the biggest problems facing nonprofits that we could work together to address?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

] By Judi Sohn, Outgoing VP of Operations, Fight Colorectal Cancer Fight Colorectal Cancer: > 6 year-old Org > 6 Full-time Staff > $1.1 As a senior staff member for my organization, I don’t have the time or expertise to learn every API call. Draw a green line where information is flowing smoothly.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

And at all times, leaders help us enjoy the journey. And that's where we're headed now, through a time in which the need for our work has never been greater. Solving the issues that we are working on requires that we work across our sector to address these complex problems in equally complex ways. Open by default.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions. As we know, these transactions are often managed in the most labor-intensive way possible.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

Staff time and budgets are limited, and improving the different ways they use technology seems out of reach. In another example, a domestic abuse organization found a creative way to modify its existing database to provide information to external parole officers who had been reliant upon staff. By Laura S.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

5 Reasons to have a technology officer at the management table : Priority Management. Management meetings provide insight into organizational long- and short-term priorities. Tech officers can use this to inform decisions about systems toward long-term impact. This can be a tremendous asset at the management level.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Do people come to you for problem solving? It means knowing what you know, knowing what you don't know -- and, at the risk of quoting Donald Rumsfeld, what you don't know you don't know -- and, equally important, knowing where to get information if you don't know the answer. This can take some time. What You Do.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

We're usually expecting to hear things like "Our staff will spend significantly less time putting together monthly reports" or "We will finally have agreement between the membership lists on the website and in the AMS." Problems with the adoption of new IT tools can rob an implementation of much of its ROI.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

No high performing teams are merely “informed” of new ideas. Unfortunately, 42% of organizations do not have someone with digital experience at the senior-most level of management, and the larger the organization, the less likely someone with digital experience is on the executive team. no leader) have mostly disappeared.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Clearly outlining these answers now will save time down the line and keep your team focused on the task at hand. Why should I hire a nonprofit consulting firm? Discuss the project with your board.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Here’s some food for thought on the topic that will hopefully make customization-related decisions easier next time it comes up, whether with vendors, internal business stakeholders, or developers: You keep using that word “customization” I do not think it means what you think it means. Development approach.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

Define the problem: Identify the specific problem or issue you want to address through data analysis. Collect data: Make sure your data is relevant to the problem. Learn how to evaluate your data health and best practices to maintaining your data so it gives you accurate information.

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Change Organization Evaluation Analysis 67

sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many in philanthropy now have titles or job descriptions that include creative words like knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis. Avoiding Excess Asking too many questions and collecting too much data without ever using it is a problem in grantmaking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Welcome Ideas At Any Time From Anyone Great ideas for your business can come at anytime from anyone on your team. Carl Magee invented the parking meter when back in 1932 the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce asked Magee to solve problems caused by all-day parkers in the downtown business district.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Monday, July 12, 2010 The next time you stay at a Marriott hotel look in the nightstand drawer for Marriotts booklet that highlights its milestones and tells the Marriott story. View every problem as an opportunity to grow. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports. Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Kudos to Marriott.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 4, 2022

Develop and maintain Marketing Cloud and/or Pardot technical expertise and utilize that expertise effectively to help clients.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

While we used to use change management strategies to help soothe the fears of those who would reject the new database, now we need something slightly more radical: entirely new organizations. I'm a long-time fan of Maddie Grant , so I was excited to see her and co-author Jamie Notter tackle this very topic in Humanize.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

But with change comes new opportunities to evaluate and improve on existing business processes and demonstrate to existing and potential supporters that your organization is dedicated to compliance and ethical accounting practices. This article and infographic provides tips for getting started with compliance change management.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. Rating someone based on a short time period instead of the entire evaluation period 8. Make conversation with your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant’s ” When Millennials Take Over ,” written with Jamie Notter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employee As a leader, the time will come when you will have to speak with an employee about his or her poor performance. Perhaps that time is now as you conduct year-end performance reviews. Give him time to make his improvement. You made your point.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2010

He recently shared his findings from his latest book, " Re-Engage: How Americas Best Places To Work Inspire Extra Effort In Extraordinary Times." Without these actions and in the absence of communication from management, Branham says employees create their own information, which is often worse than the reality.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Be A Manager Who Makes Decisions A manager who cant make a decision or who cant make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the managers team. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. Okay, thats really not too surprising during these times of high unemployment. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

Dont limit your time for only your direct reports. How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Posted by Eric Jacobson at 8:10 PM Labels: Books For Managers , Change Management , Customer Feedback , Customer Service , General Management Skills , Strategic Planning 1 comments: Maths private tutor said. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Proper mentoring takes a commitment from both parties and it takes time to develop and to reap the rewards of the relationship. Does this person have the time needed to properly mentor me? And, do I also have the time to devote to a mentoring relationship? Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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