sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

We spend our days in back-to-back meetings and sit in front of a screen all day. You can break this pattern by identifying a start-and-stop ritual to bookend your days and carve out time to refill your cup. The start ritual is something you do for yourself before jumping full steam ahead into your day. According to Daron K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2020

One thing I shared was the importance of creating a “shutting down from work,” ritual. Also, because everything is virtual – from socializing to zoom team meetings – it is hard shift gears. Having a ritual that lets you make the pivot work to home life can help. We lack transition time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Therefore, they suggest you do the following to build your own interpersonal glue with your direct reports and the team at large : Create rituals at the beginning and the end of the day. Build in pre-meetings. Do virtual or live walk-arounds. Regularly schedule check-ins. Add additional check-ins as needed. Use ice breakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. For over twenty years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they allow me to gain focus and clarity. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. If your virtual meetings ignore the relational and human aspects, work can feel transactional, boring and lead to disengagement and fatigue. Why Remote Work Is Exhausting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2018

” It is a ritual or organizational norm that can used during meetings to avoid unnecessary discussions that don’t support the meeting objectives. It’s a fun way to avoid one of the most common meeting productivity killers: Rabbit Holes. Introduce the concept at the beginning of the meeting.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You spend your days in back-to-back meetings and sitting behind a screen all day. . You can break this pattern by identifying a start and stop ritual to bookend your workday. The start ritual is something you do for yourself (e.g., Similarly, the stop ritual (e.g., Have shorter meetings.?. But you’re not a robot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

” Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history. For over twenty years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they help me to gain focus and clarity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. My bullet journal also incorporates “looking-ahead” rituals linked to my calendar. Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2021

Stretch between meetings Set reminders on your iPhone or watch (Fitbit has this feature built into its software) or add to your calendar Add music to your movement moments Try habit stacking to make it routine (add on to an existing ritual) Do leg lifts while on a conference call (with the video off!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here are the techniques: Meeting Ritual: A Moment of Quiet: Many people who work at nonprofits are often in many meetings, often scheduled back-to-back, everyday. Sometimes we just time into the next meeting before we’ve had a chance to take a pause from the previous meeting. This technique is simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

4 New Workplace Norms for Meetings . Here’s a fun process to establish meeting norms during a pandemic that can be done online. In addition, given that we are all sitting in front of a screen for more and more hours, we need to make desk stretches and energizers norms for meetings as well. What am I grateful for today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. Establish Look Ahead Team Rituals . Sound familiar?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Have you ever heard someone make a statement in a meeting and not be heard, and then ten minutes later someone else makes a similar statement or suggestion and the response is “Great idea!”? This could be applied at networking events, speaking events, meetings, new team introductions, and more. Amplify the voices of others.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The fundraising department only meets with its staff. The marketing department only meets with its staff. The program department only meets with its staff and so on. In between meetings, experiment with having a staff person from your marketing team attend other department meetings monthly and report back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Look ahead rituals can build space into your schedule. Look ahead rituals can even be as simple as encouraging staff to take 20-30 minutes on Mondays to look at their week and different deadlines. Here’s a process that you can use at a staff meeting. How does your organization avoid crisis mode and fire drills?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Healthy food and snacks available at meetings. Birthday cards from the board, celebrate staff birthdays at monthly staff meeting, give staff member the day off for their birthday. Ritual of staff praise at meetings or monthly award, not just a raise. 80/20 rule – 20% leaders talk at meetings. Transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I look for patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

3.) Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable. The mindmap offers a lot of good suggestions for rituals – from decluttering your workspace to healthy habits like sleep and exercise. It’s why felt the need to dive into visual facilitation and thinking techniques as a way to cope with content fried.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable. The mind map offers a lot of good suggestions for rituals – from decluttering your workspace to healthy habits like sleep and exercise. It's why I felt the need to dive into visual facilitation and thinking techniques as a way to cope with getting "content fried.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I did it!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

I was struck by how ritualistic their meeting was--idiosyncratic nametags, a special song to welcome guests, a donation pool in which people offer "sad" or "happy" dollars to commemorate recent events in their lives, a raffle to choose who will create the trivia game for next week. They hand flags to little kids to wave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We are also looking for examples of rituals and cues in the nonprofit workplace that reinforce healthy and happy. Maybe it is allowing folks to have standing desks or do walking meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective? Incorporating movement into your work, like walking meetings or standing desks. Maybe your organization does a regular walking meet for staff? We want to know your secrets! Work/Life Balance.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

To make the process dynamic and truly useful for employees, managers should include the performance measures in regular meetings with their direct reports. First, it is important to ritualize the celebration of successes. Moreover, the simple act of keeping track of good work and pointing it out in staff meetings can be very powerful.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran. But I also had a more immediate problem: I had no idea how to lead a staff meeting. I didn't know how to open a meeting. I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. The museum was in huge financial trouble.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Just like a deck of playing cards, The Space Deck is divided into suits, representing different ways to make space through STILLNESS, CREATIVITY, COURAGE, ACTIVISM, RELATIONSHIPS, MOVEMENT, RITUAL, and ENVIRONMENT. as well as personal questions, like "how can I find some peace in a world of chaos?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. At its most basic, we can describe any meeting with at least one remote participant as a hybrid meeting. Center Inclusion. Inclusion is the “I” word in “DEI.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. How do you approach a hard question like, "What will you do to meet the challenge of genocide today?" You can't just jot off a witty remark or quick reply.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 27, 2007

Two weeks later, the male leaders called a special meeting and voted fifteen to two to end female circumcision in their village." The circumcision ritual was probably a part of Abay's culture for a very long time and seemed impossible to change.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

They had been passed down from the gods for use in rituals and ceremonies. They were relearning their own ceremonial rituals and the role of medicine bundles within them. A board member brokered a meeting with the premier of Alberta so that the museum could make the case for repatriation directly. But not to keep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Collaborative overload results from too many pointless meetings, a tsunami of emails, and a drumbeat of constant interruptions. Meetings As Murder: Meetings that are not well designed or pointless are also huge productivity drains. 37 billion per year is wasted in unproductive meetings. Try a Walking Meeting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Separately, I appreciate Brian Tracy''s advice on good habits and morning rituals for daily success. Co-author of the book is Michael Tracy , who is the Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Analog Analytics, a Software-as-a-Service company that was acquired by Barclays Plc in May 2012.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Beg your ED not to schedule staff meetings on Monday mornings; Tuesday mornings are more productive. So once you identify some time management rituals that work for you, give them a try for a few weeks to see if you can make it work or if it makes a difference." Are You It? by Sandy Rees of Get Fully Funded "[P]lay to your strengths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

Gina and I share a passion for walking as work which includes walking meetings, standing desks and more. She shared some great tips about how to get your nonprofit to shift from a sitting culture to one which includes walking meetings and standing desks. Gina and I hiked the Dish at Stanford, one of my favorite walks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

For more information about coworking, read the Coworking Community Blog , check out the Coworking wiki, join the Coworking Google Group , watch this short video , and see photos of coworking spaces in the BusinessWeek article, Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. Chris Messina: My name is Chris Messina.

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