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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I most often have to hack the space.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

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Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. How about you?

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps. It also helps participants take risks in trying new techniques because they have the support of their peers.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

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The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I did it!

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

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When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. If you think back to your own classroom experiences, you’re probably familiar with final exams that you were required to pass to progress to the next course level.