Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 82

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators. All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

Professional 96

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. Team members make a WhatsApp group, and once the group is established the members are easily reachable by a message sent directly to their mobile phones.

Storytelling 295

Storytelling Digital Channel Profile 295

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared. I have continued to teach facilitation and meeting design workshops and coaching for online and hybrid meetings. Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

Professional 89

Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw. Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 60

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This exercise was teaching us to be open to change.

Teach 50

Teach Change Exercise Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

Last week I designed and facilitated a day and half session for the Nonprofit Leadership Institute co-sponsored every year by Pepperdine University Nonprofit Management program and Ventura County Community Foundation. It kicked off with a keynote, followed by a world cafe.

Teach 101

Teach Instructional Design Learning Instruction 101

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Roles North Carolina University 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 79

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 79

The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One exec expressed interest in resources to share with our members to teach them how to have conversations about controversial topics. The post The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt appeared first on Matrix Group International. Many execs reinforced the idea that communications should be clear and transparent.

Associations 130

Associations Industry Government Education 130

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 72

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

Note from Beth: For the past two years, I’ve had the honor of facilitating a peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees who are hosting Giving Days. What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About the Giving Challenge – Guest Post by Susie Bowie. Knight Foundation, Manatee Community Foundation, and the Herald-Tribune Media Group.

Teach 50

Teach Florida Giving Celebrate 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks.

Finland 97

Finland Learning Classroom Brain 97

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. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

Learning 84

Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Roles North Carolina University 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Roles North Carolina University 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Roles 52

Roles Collaboration North Carolina University 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona.

Learning 87

Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. His response: Looking: Observing human experience.

Design 128

Design Strategy Digital Technique 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Learning 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching.

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Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. We were assigned to small groups to work a specific theme. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

Design 105

Design Course Leadership Network 105

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

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Our group of advisors includes 20 impressive women from 8 technology companies who are sharing their skills and expertise with local women entrepreneurs help them to scale their businesses. The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise.

Peru 79

Peru Exercise Empowerment Local 79

TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Much like the head coach or manager of a professional sports team, your job when assembling and managing these teams becomes less about teaching and directing, and become more centered on ensuring the group is working cohesively. Facilitate one-on-one relationships first.

Leadership 123

Leadership Team Build Work 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

Culture 125

Culture Activities Active Activism 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

Learning 102

Learning Network Organization Classroom 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. 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. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Why Successful Leaders Frame Culture As a Management System , Jason Korman, Gapingvoid Culture Design Group. It’s in your job description. And it’s not an individual sport.

Culture 125

Culture Philanthropy Facilitation Job 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Esther Press’s list of best Bible studies for women notes that these studies can facilitate collaboration and group discussions, making it a great way for you to get to know other team members’ values and perspectives. Their involvement with your nonprofit will teach them valuable lessons and help them put their faith into practice.

Work 52

Work Nonprofit Local Roles 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

Professional 101

Professional Network Learning Lebanon 101

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2019

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 40