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Make Space—Lighten the Load for Your Heavy Lifters

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If you receive the green light to delegate responsibility, then it’s time to give your team license to help. Because they have an intimate knowledge of products and services. When you give people time for reflection, evaluation, and creativity you develop a new crop of leaders. Empower Your Team Give your team license to help.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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We are what we eat

ASU Lodestar Center

But with increased testing and heightened security, and many other demands on schools and teachers today, are gardens just a green frill, or are they a good use of a school’s time and money? An intern working on a master’s degree in public health conducted the evaluation, so costs for the study were minimal. A nice idea?

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid.

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Thank You Marissa Mayer for Yahoo’s No Work From Home Policy

Tech Soup

The debate died down in due course, and just like before the furor, the knowledge economy keeps growing with more of us every year doing our work on IT devices that don’t require is to be tethered to an office all the time. ” Best Buy also gave employees the option to work remotely with manager approval. After the Smoke Cleared.

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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

Despite the fact that many knowledge workers could efficiently and effectively do their work from home, most organizations default to a management and evaluation style designed for factory workers. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.