Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place.

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Teach Story Storytelling Chapter 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 93

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 15, 2022

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. Having a personal vision is one of the most powerful ways to engage neurologically and emotionally.

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Teach Authoring Mentoring Exercise 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. Having a personal vision is one of the most powerful ways to engage neurologically and emotionally.

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Teach Authoring Mentoring Exercise 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

An instructor travels to your place of business to teach you how to apply your new features to your existing processes, one-on-one. Gaining alignment across multiple groups is an exercise in communication. These online and webinar training sessions can be private or public. In-person training. Make sure everyone is in the know.

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Software Fundraising Training Train 317

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. You can build your resilience by listening to a lecture!

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Learning 91

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. Having a personal vision is one of the most powerful ways to engage neurologically and emotionally.

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Teach Authoring Mentoring Exercise 55

Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

Online resource EdSurge has even compiled a five-point list for educators to help understand and begin merging VR into their lectures and lab exercises as well as how to create their own custom-made videos as supplements to their normal teaching routines.

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Classroom Tech Lecture Student 100

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. Having a personal vision is one of the most powerful ways to engage neurologically and emotionally.

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Teach Authoring Mentoring Exercise 52

sgEngage

MARCH 14, 2023

What can we take away from this little exercise? For a grassroots nonprofit, this tool would save staff valuable time and serve as a teaching tool for early-career fundraisers. With a few follow-up requests, however, ChatGPT provided versions of this message that prioritized ongoing partnerships and encouraged upgrading donations.

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Tools Fundraising Donor Exercise 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise. She will be doing this exercise with young girls at the high school we are visiting later this week. The workshop was developed by several women who work at Google.

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Peru Exercise Empowerment Local 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The reflection exercise can be found here.

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Exercise Knowledge Tag Collaboration 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week I was honored to teach a Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshop at the 1440 Multiversity Nonprofit Service Week. This past week they opened up the campus to nonprofits and I was lucky enough to be part of the faculty to teach a workshop. They also teach yoga and meditation classes in this room. The photo was my classroom.

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Mind News Professional Tips 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Training Train Design Classroom 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. There is no better way to improve your own teaching than being a student! Giving 2.0:

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Giving Free Lecture Module 99

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Noah Fleming Fortunately, in Fleming's timely and intensively relevant book , he shows you through strategies, exercises and examples what to do. Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving.

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Exercise Companies Relationship Technique 66

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Packed with uplifting personal stories, action steps and writing exercises, you’ll learn how to be accountable for developing your character, integrity, and commitment to reaching your goals. Plus, you’ll learn: Why obstacles are a good thing. The value of a “Never Do Again” list.

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Game Life Teach Los Angeles 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Question: The book's servant leadership teachings are particularly interesting. Named by the Financial Times as the Best Business Book of the Month April 2024, Burnout Immunity is packed with research, exercises, self-assessments, and real-life stories from people with natural burnout immunity and those who have cultivated it.

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Build Pennsylvania Environment Skills 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. The workshop had seating in a U-shape, so people did not have a desk to write on and I had some worksheet exercises for people to do. Just added these to my trainer kit). My audience included many people who were blind.

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Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. As part of the set-up to the exercise, I share some examples from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Culture Activities Active Activism 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

You also need to challenge participants thought processes and stimulate curiosity about what you are teaching. This includes meeting and greeting people, setting up the room for interaction, getting people to move around, to be actively involved with the content, and appreciating learners. New Zealand: Tables for Small Group Exercises.

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New Zealand Arts Australia Open 96

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Coaching during a game/exercise can be helpful, but teaching during a game/exercise is distracting and counterproductive. Lemov''s previous book is Teach Like a Champion. Leadership Books Leadership Teaching Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Practice Perfect'

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Teach Jordan Exercise Summary 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. .” What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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Professional Network Learning Lebanon 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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Training Train Technology Instructional Design 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

As part of the face-to-face training, we spent a day introducing participants to the different platforms and because we had wifi at the training, integrated using it as part of the exercise report outs. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication. There is also an self-assessment exercise. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Design Course Leadership Network 105

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2020

Noah Fleming Fortunately, in Fleming's timely and intensively relevant book , he shows you through strategies, exercises and examples what to do. Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving.

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Exercise Companies Relationship Technique 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it.

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Learning Work Knowledge Management Knowledge 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). Both language and what you’re teaching. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy.

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Activities Active Activism Digital 92

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. Having a personal vision is one of the most powerful ways to engage neurologically and emotionally.

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Learning Mentoring Teach Authoring 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills. Sport, play, and physical exercise help these children overcome some of the stresses they carry with them. In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life.

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Change Sierra Leone South Africa Poland 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. These are brief, introductory exercises that help participants to get know each other, get connected to the topic, and their own learning outcomes.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Coaching during a game/exercise can be helpful, but teaching during a game/exercise is distracting and counterproductive. Lemov's previous book is Teach Like a Champion. What people do right is as important in practice as what they do wrong. Practice Perfect 's authors are Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi and Erica Woolway.

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Jordan Exercise Skills Teach 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the honor of teaching a master class at the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) on avoiding burnout for fundraisers with Corinne Aartman in Amsterdam. Richard Sved, a fundraising consultant from the UK, participated and wrote a reflection on the UK Fundraising Blog.

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Fundraising Charity Exercise Consultant 73

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Implementing these exercises is bound to bring any team closer together while encouraging organization-level growth. This mindset teaches us to embrace failure early on so that we can get a head start by learning from our mistakes in the beginning. Adopt the Failing Forward Mindset. Fight the Unfair Pressure to be Perfect.

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Results Nonprofit Adopt Environment 89