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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. What is Brainstorming? .

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. Inspire Others The concept of the MVP encompasses more than product development.

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Empowering grassroots organizations: building capacity, diversity, and relationships

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I often refer to the post-World War II period, when civil and human rights movements came to the forefront, along with community-organized philanthropic organizations. Prioritizing women- and people of color-led grassroots organizations At the Ms.

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How To Facilitate Leadership Development In Your Nonprofit As Part of Doing the Work

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One of the biggest challenges that many nonprofits face is the finding time and resources for professional development activities. People are so busy doing the work that they don’t have time to go off-site to take a class or sign up for an online course. The Emerging Leaders Playbook was curated with this in mind.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Often, these relationships develop informally. Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? In fact, promoting mentoring throughout all your organizational activities is probably a more effective strategy than developing a stand-alone program. Most mentorships begin with bonding.

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Resisting a Rest: How Urgency Culture Polices our Work

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This article was previously published by Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia and is reprinted with permission. Full disclosure: this blog was supposed to be published last week.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Bell’s work will play a large role in their success. Bell is researching what mix of personalities is most likely to work effectively together. A mission team—like any team, anywhere—needs competent people who work well together,” Bell advises. “In One person can poison an entire organization. Hiring for skill is easy.

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