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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. This collaboration improves customer service, events, and user-friendliness across platforms and has a significant impact on member satisfaction.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. Promote Collaboration Creative people understand the power of group thinking. Don’t be a team in name only.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information.

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The Power of Collaborative Fundraising

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Article In Brief: The Problem: Fundraising can sometimes be seen as a competition with nonprofits all going their own way, repeating the same playbook, duplicating effort. Our author wonders if there is a better way to tap into the inherent collaborative impulses of the sector.

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Solving Business Problems with Root Cause Analysis

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Your solution to a business problem didn’t work? You feel like you’re solving the same problem over and over again? Learn more from Sarah about root cause analysis in the sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 217: “Business Problem to Solve? Root cause analysis helps us to solve a problem by getting to the root of it!

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A New Era for Foundation Collaboration

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In the past, many foundations viewed collaboration as a speed bump. Collaborations, after all, take time. But at a time when many foundations are looking for creative ways to address the overlapping crises of COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change, they are viewing collaboration much differently. Why Collaborate?

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 217: Business Problem to Solve? Find out the Why

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Are you dealing with problems in your organizations and wondering why you can’t solve them, or why you can’t solve them in a lasting way? Topics Discussed in This Episode: Why some solutions to business problems don’t work. Topics Discussed in This Episode: Why some solutions to business problems don’t work. Identify the Whys.

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