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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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What are the lessons learned? One bit of wisdom is that like most skills, managing a remote team is both easier and more complicated than we could have imagined. Following are a few of my observations on the indelible takeaways and lessons learned about remote work. For every advantage, there is a trade-off.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. They can help the organization set and achieve goals. There are lots of tools out there that can help.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

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How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

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This invaluable third focuses not on what they as individuals want to do but instead asks: “What can I do to help?” In contrast is the middle third, who are typically helpful and service-minded—but with a caveat. However, along the way we learned several lessons that proved integral to maintaining an effective—and accountable—board.

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Beware the Ides of March: A Lesson For All Leaders

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What can we learn from Caesar? What lessons can we take from the fall of Caeser and how can we apply those to our own organizations? Challenge yourself to help others challenge themselves. Today’s organizations are full of stakeholders with an abundance of skill, talent, and passion. Leaders respect those around them.

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Leadership Lessons From A Serial Entrepreneur

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. This book is about what I’ve learned from my blunders, and how you can replicate our successes,” says Jacobs. Building an outrageously talented team. Catalyzing electric meetings.

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3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

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While many nonprofits remain on a curve of continual learning and adaptation, there have been some unanticipated lessons learned throughout this tumultuous time. An American nonprofit leader said that it was the staff that helped to drive some changes, saying, “They were more agile. In the U.K., In the U.K., In the U.S.,

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