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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. This is a proactive change.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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Change Management = Changing Mindset

sgEngage

By thinking freely, I had no problem considering outrageous ideas to help, but my leadership brain applied the necessary guardrails to make practical and cost-effective decisions. Yes, there was support for change, but the most challenging part of this entire project would be the change management component.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Learning, we do naturally.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

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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3 Major Higher Ed Takeaways from bbcon 2020 Virtual

Connection Cafe

Mastering change management to usher in digital transformation . Change management is always an important topic at bbcon as we strive to help our customers implement successful solutions on their campus. Blackbaud’s Mike Reardon shared some tips for finding success with change management at your institutions. .

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The Keys to Successful Nonprofit Digital Teams

Connection Cafe

The data now proves non-centralized teams run considerably more effective digital programs than centralized teams in which most, if not all, digital work is managed by just one team. In 2014, centralized and hybrid models were also nearly tied for first at 40% and 38% respectively. no leader) have mostly disappeared.

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