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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Facilitated listening is made up of a number of techniques described in more detail in the book. This includes: 1.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

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You’ll also be well-prepared to have in-depth discussions with prospective vendors and can make better decisions about which of them will be the right one to help you execute your organization’s web redesign project. A comprehensive web content inventory lists pages, images, documents, and applications on a spreadsheet.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

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Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). You can customize how many participants per room.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

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I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Dot Voting Online

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One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. Dot voting is a visual way to see where the interest is and generate a robust discussion about the options.

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

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Listen in to this excerpt from bbcon 2021 Virtual, where Sarah Beauregard, Senior Process Engineer at Blackbaud, discusses root cause analysis. Topics Discussed in This Episode: Why some solutions to business problems don’t work. Root cause analysis technique. Root Cause analysis document. Definition of root cause.

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