Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

They contribute their time, skills, and passion to support the cause, all without expecting anything in return. What skill sets are required for these tasks? Include information about the time commitment, necessary skills, and any specific training required. Recruiting Volunteers Ready to find your dream team of volunteers?

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success. Sales Ops Best Practices. Optimization of Sales Tools, Knowledge Base and other Assets. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Technology. Automation.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Now that we are–unbelievably–at the two-and-a-half-year mark of the global pandemic, there has been some regression to our pre-COVID practices, and some foundations have settled back into status quo practices. Every collaboration includes embedded assumptions that we often ignore and lack the skills to test.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Thanks to years of experience, benefit auctioneers can help you structure your event program for the best flow. For more great auction game ideas, check out our Lookbook, made possible thanks to the experience and knowledge of dozens of professional benefit auctioneers. Add Auction Games and Audience Activities.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

They should put internal controls in place and help write policies to prevent loss, theft, or confusion, using current b est practices. You should also acknowledge that your Board members each have different skills and personalities, and some will be better at asking for money than others.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2022

While succession planning is not a new phenomenon, it is rarely focused on the executive level and more commonly practiced for board leadership replacements. Gain the confidence, skills and networks you need to successfully lead your organization into the future. Recommendations. Scholarships are available.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I’m here at #KMUK10 , also known as the Knowledge Management UK conference. We are currently suffering from filter failure; which means the need to help people navigate and work within this world is really huge; we need skilled sense makers! We need to free up knowledge in order to have healthier networks to work with.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Projects – Projects give you hands-on practice with different Salesforce technologies with step-by-step instructions. This offers you the ability to learn a new skill and gives you the experience of completing this skill in an actual demo environment. How do I keep track of my progress? Reach out to our team of experts!!

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Enhanced data quality : A data warehouse helps you integrate your data into one place, but it also offers the opportunity to reinforce your data hygiene practices. To succeed, you’ll need time, knowledge, and a proper technology infrastructure on your side. Data quality and governance: Data accuracy and integrity are paramount.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Turnover reduces current and future revenue and erodes institutional knowledge while diminishing a donor's connection to the mission. Recommendations help maximize skills and knowledge, incentivize high performance through financial incentives or rewards and address workload and stress issues, to create fundraiser sustainability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. She is one of the leading voices of ”social learning practice” which is about self-directed and informal learning from your online networks.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. Use this as an opportunity for knowledge transfer. This can establish a line of communication and lead to increased knowledge transfer.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Aside from communicating the goals, timeline, and vision for the change at hand, it is also extremely important to make sure your team has the skills to implement the change. Practice Adaptability. Technological change – new software and systems.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Without further ado, let’s pull the curtain back on the skill of nonprofit storytelling. To get you started, consider if you want your organization to come across as: Knowledgeable. Here’s how you can structure your nonprofit’s narrative: Beginning: Talk about the history of your nonprofit and the issue that you are trying to solve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

The Network Weaver Handbook is designed to give you skills and resources you need to build effective and innovative networks. ” And that as networks evolve and grow, you experiment with different tools and then spread the knowledge of how to use the tools to the rest of the network. Order it here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. E-learning will make it less costly and more feasible for organizations to codify, demonstrate, and share best practices among busy staff members across locations. Learning'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

It requires having both “hard skills” (technology, network mapping, analytic tools, strategic thinking, understanding of complexity and dynamic systems) and “soft skills” (group dynamics, crossing boundaries, ability to create alignment, relationship building, networking/ connecting people, conflict resolution, etc.)

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, the handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

Over the last year, we’ve done our best to extol the benefits of skills-based volunteerism to npEngage readers , offering best practices for and case studies on pro bono service. In fact, skills-based volunteerism has emerged in response to both corporate and nonprofit desires to make the most out of community service.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! In different meetings, we’ve created breakout rooms so people with stronger technology skills can support others who feel less comfortable by screensharing and/or being the ones to take notes. And guess what?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You can give your campaign its best chance at success by keeping up with advocacy best practices and figuring out how to strategically apply them to your own efforts. You can use this knowledge to structure your messaging schedule and to keep supporters informed about recent developments related to your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

While the reports are guides to funders, if you do work as a capacity builder, you will find some useful insights for your practice. Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. This post summarizes gems from both reports.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Accidental : Hobbyist mentality, obsessive tinkerer, passionate beyond practicality. The Maker has the skill and confidence to pivot, to do what we call The Shift, to find demand and zero in on the target customer.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Burning Issues: Getting the word out about my new consulting practice. Pricing structures. As partners, as a collective, without creating toxic/un-needed structure? Should I pull off onto my own practice? Finding the match between market needs and skills — try informational interviewing with other consultants.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Once you’ve gathered and interpreted these data points, use the audience profiles and market opportunities to structure early concepts for your direct mail campaign. Think of a direct mail agency as an extension of your team that will align your knowledge and passion for your cause with data analytics and effective marketing strategies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Accidental : Hobbyist mentality, obsessive tinkerer, passionate beyond practicality. The Maker has the skill and confidence to pivot, to do what we call The Shift, to find demand and zero in on the target customer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations? Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning. With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Accidental : Hobbyist mentality, obsessive tinkerer, passionate beyond practicality. The Maker has the skill and confidence to pivot, to do what we call The Shift, to find demand and zero in on the target customer.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 9, 2016

With the hectic nature of start-up organizations today, one can easily make a claim that it is never too early to evaluate the effectiveness of a structured Learning, Training, and Development program. Skill-Gaps. Though just being around successful people on the job can permeate positive skill building. Engaging Users.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

Often, they’re using this time to seek new learning opportunities to enhance their skills and become better versions of themselves. Staff management best practices courses that can help your staff members take on new leadership roles and start managing other individuals at your organization. But why is virtual training the answer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While most of the tech experts used lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice as their pedagogical approach and we did some pre-session surveys, it was still important for us to get to better understanding of the skill, knowledge, and mindsets of the participants once in the room.

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