Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future. Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring.

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Creating a Fair and Supportive Work Environment: A Conversation with Joan Garry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the nonprofit sector, cultivating a fair and supportive work environment is essential to ensuring the well-being of employees and fostering the success of the organization. We also discuss the implementation of anonymous upward feedback surveys and pulse checks to create a safe and productive work environment.

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Turning Empathy Inward at Nonprofit Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since the launch of our book, I’ve been teaching workshops for nonprofits on how to practice self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into organizations. And I keep hearing the same questions and concerns: Inevitably, a nonprofit leader will come up and confide that everyone in the organization is on the cusp of burnout.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Osborn, an advertising executive, invented the latter process of “organized ideation” in the 1930’s and popularized the technique in several books he authored called “ Your Creative Power ” and “ Applied Imagination.”

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I first discovered Dave’s work through colleague, Eugene Eric Kim, who recently shared this great story about Dave and his work. Organization.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When nonprofits invest in creating physical spaces that inspire employees to show up for work, staff is more engaged, productive, happy, and healthy. You may be wondering whether the Global Giving has the opportunity for quiet time in order to do focus solo work that does not require collaborating with others.

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The Age of Automation: How Bots and Artificial Intelligence Help Nonprofits Work Smarter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post looks at how some nonprofits are using bots and artificial intelligence for internal management and administration to work smarter. Ask anyone who works in the nonprofit industry what one of their biggest challenges is and they will most likely say something like “lack of time to implement everything that needs to be done.”

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