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The Nonprofit’s Guide To Inclusive Walking Meetings: Strolling Meetings

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Meetings can not only be a waste of time if they are not well designed, but can also zap our energy. Even worse, the meeting can be so boring that participants tune out or cancel. One way to shake things is up to host a “StrollingMeeting. It is called “Strolling” (not walking) to be inclusive.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instructional elements are one area I modify, but my content discusses some activities such as “ Walking Meetings ,” which can be a challenge for wheelchair users or people with mobility issues. However, the term “Walking Meetings,” is ableist. If you already know the wheel chair users in the meeting group, ask them for advice.

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. Cloud connectivity, project management systems, and meetings platforms with transcription and note-taking functions are software prerequisites. Make time to audit the impact working from home is having on your organization.

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Nonprofit Remote Work: Is Staying at Home Here to Stay?

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It turned a morning commute into the morning stroll to the home office, via the shower and the coffee pot. Consider creating a day or afternoon in the week when the workforce of your nonprofit can get together somewhere else to conduct meetings and touch base. It’s possible to make the office remote as well as the staff.

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Does Your Nonprofit Suffer from a Culture of Sitting? How To Change It

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On February 12th, I’ll be presenting on a FREE Guidestar Webinar on healthy and productive meetings and talking about walking meetings (register here ). There is much research out there about why sitting at work is downright dangerous for your health. Stand during meetings, while taking phone calls, or during teleconferences.

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Happy National Walking Day! #walkatwork

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They use this day to remind people about the health and other benefits of taking a walk.Why not celebrate with a walking meeting ? Here’s how I do it: I get in a walk of about 5,000 steps first thing in the morning, a lunch time stroll, and a brisk walk at the end of the work day. My daily goal is 15,000K steps.

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Take A Walk! Work Smarter and Live Longer

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Many times I hear from people that they realize sitting for long periods is unhealthy, but they are unable to make the time to take a walk or shift their habit of sitting meetings to walking meetings. So, with the growing body of research that is telling us that sitting is shortening our lives, how to best respond? ”

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