Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Getting an MBA takes time and money, making it inaccessible to many people who want to take charge in the business world.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. Although leadership courses may be part of more recent IT management degrees, relationship building is a skill that requires commitment and practice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

Their resumes will list skills we barely register today. Ries defines the MVP like this: “The MVP is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.” Everyone on your team will not become a believer overnight.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

You can build more collaborative teams. There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Involve the marketing team in strategic decision-making. You can’t know, what you don’t know.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As the coach of a youth sports team or the leader of a school-affiliated academic bowl team, you know that there are some aspects of team fundraising that make it different—and often more challenging—than other types of fundraising. Team members can personalize their efforts. Team members can personalize their efforts.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Also, most of the foundations I talked to found it difficult to collaborate with other foundations. From this learning, I was left with the question, “How can collaborations thrive when everyone feels that they are “unique”? The key, I’ve found, is approaching collaboration with empathy and testing your assumptions.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Turn the focus away from individual success and toward team building. Turn the focus away from individual success and toward team building. Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption , she explained her commitment to skill-building like this. “My When you help your team build those skills, you are also creating new leaders.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More than a few of those executives were managing virtual teams. One bit of wisdom is that like most skills, managing a remote team is both easier and more complicated than we could have imagined. We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. What are the lessons learned?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 1, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Look to the human skills to increase your stability and value. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Innovators and strategists complement each other’s skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2021

Our teams have been tested in this last year. Teams were forced to work online , trying to brainstorm, collaborate and connect at a distance ? Here is how to build a stronger team either on Zoom or in-person. Choosing how your team rebuilds in the wake of the pandemic is a big decision, so let’s make it wisely.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Taking the right approach can go a long way to helping your team ease into this new style of operating. Remove the barriers that compartmentalize strategy and keep your talent from being a real team. To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. It’s a choice.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Each year, we celebrate Pro Bono Week: a time to recognize professionals around the world who volunteer their skills for causes they care about. Salesforce MVPs Bill Florio , Barbara Christensen , and Charise Van Liew co-lead a team of community members to create content for the NPSP How-To Series.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In order to unlock its full potential, your team needs to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills. Customize training materials: Develop user manuals, best practice guides, video tutorials, and FAQs that support each team’s CRM journey. That’s where customer relationship management (CRM) comes in.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These important team members give their time, talents, and resources, unmotivated by financial compensation or contractual obligations. Regardless of the number of volunteers, having a thriving team requires intentionality on the part of key leadership to minimize the reasons why volunteers leave. Team building. Share the love.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Therefore, for nonprofits to continue tackling such complex issues and systems, leaders must seek to create, support and sustain high-performing teams capable of enacting transformative change. High-performing nonprofit teams are resilient, motivated and cared for. A cknowledge team members’ identities (racial, gender, etc.)

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

As head of the team, I’m happy to introduce the Forum One design team and the inspiring design work we accomplish with our partners. What the design team does. Meet the design team. Members of our 16-person design team have specializations, from user experience design to interactive design.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills. Teams that harness their collective XQ achieve greater collaboration and innovation.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 4, 2021

Corporate event team builders are an essential way to build a strong team culture and can significantly improve team morale. As company culture evolves, every business needs to pay more attention to growing their team’s cohesiveness and camaraderie. Preparing For Your Corporate Event Team Builders.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Remote work is challenging teams. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. The executive team is stretched too thin. Teams are engaged and proud of their work. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. You are struggling to make old procedures fit new formats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? Or is there a set of skills fundamental to every level? Survey respondents were asked to rank skills have the greatest impact on a their professional success in the position they currently hold.

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Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

Quick ways to build fundraising skills If your schedule is packed, consider intentionally setting aside a small amount of time—say, 15-20 minutes—to learn each week. Our team of librarians has curated responses to the questions we hear most from nonprofits. Another way to learn collaboratively is to form a “book-ish club.”

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Nimble AMS

JULY 5, 2023

Why association leaders need to e mpower employees Your team is likely made up of individuals with vast abilit ies and potential. However, if your staff isn’t fully cooperating , or if certain staff abilities aren’t being leveraged , then your team won’t reach its full capacity. This is where you can utilize employee empowerment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2019

The more you empower them to share their knowledge and skills, the more successful your organization will be. Trust anchors every successful collaborative team. And it becomes even more crucial as technology-enabled virtual teams form, disband and re-form to keep up with the pace of business.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The digital team works hard to produce social content that balances sharing stories of the people they serve, the impact of their work, and the generosity of their supporters. While the communications team features a wide variety of content on social media, one of the messaging themes they focus on is innovative partnerships.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Come join our team of talented individuals who are passionate about building relationships within our team, with our partners, and with our customers that enable Kindful to make a real difference in the nonprofit market with our fully integrated online fundraising CRM. Create technical specifications and technical designs.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Projects have many components, such as team members, budget, timeframes, activities, tasks, and more. These team members provide the organization, coordination, and leadership that every organization and partnership needs to achieve their goals effectively and efficiently.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 19, 2024

Leading a nonprofit requires a unique set of skills that go beyond traditional management styles. Building a Strong Team Investing in Staff Development Effective nonprofit leaders recognize their most valuable asset: their staff. They prioritize staff development, providing opportunities for growth and skill-building.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One area with a potential high risk of over-reliance on AI tools is internal collaboration and communication. The most important skill nonprofit leaders can learn and teach their teams is to know when to use AI and when to use human skills. Investing in “soft skills.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. Collaboration – to work jointly on an activity, mainly to produce or create something.

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