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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. Organizations should commit to not using AI for the purpose of driving workers to higher levels of productivity at the cost of well-being.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. Perhaps we are confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ? How do you make sense?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation. Mural: This is an online visual collaboration tool, but it is embedded with innovation facilitation methods, including Luma (see #9).

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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JULY 19, 2018

This group formed a Network Design Community of Practice (CoP) charged with helping to build the network, create engagement strategies, and recommend structures to support the network’s growth. In May 2018 over 160 people responded to a widely announced call to explore the potential of a network focused on equity, health and well-being.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Their book provides recipes for nonprofit organizations to capitalize on internal innovation and predict future trends to remake and reshape their culture, structure, and staff. So, a big congrats to David and Randal! Moreover, David and Randal lay out a formula for organizational innovation–the Holy Grail of the nonprofit world.

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MARCH 27, 2017

For decades, even centuries, our view of leadership has been defined by top-down, hierarchical structures. From an emerging leader’s perspective, the kind of leadership development that supports these collaborative structures calls for a blending of both hard and soft skills. Today, this view is fundamentally changing.

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MARCH 31, 2014

One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure. In a very funny way, Alan discouraged us from doing that by telling us that when we sit with people we know, we are not open to making new connections and form cliques. There were 12 topics organized into three different themes.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The report covers how identifies the “seismic and structural shifts” in our society and work place that are demanding that organizations and reinvent themselves and re-imagine their futures. It can be summed in a tagline: ”It’s not what you know, but how you learn.” Peer learning is an important concept.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. For over twenty-five 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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JUNE 27, 2018

A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event.

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APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. What does learning the new mean for organizations?

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? The big themes that emerged included: How do we get people to value both the journey as well as the goal? How do we get a telling the story about why this all important? How do let go and allow for emergence?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. . If technical expertise is needed to scope an AI project, reach out to organizations or individuals with that expertise to pressure test whether there is a faster, simpler, cheaper alternative. .

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MARCH 30, 2012

It should be clear to all involved that the learning process will be exploratory and emergent rather than tightly structured and directive. The participants’ motivation is essential, so it works well for grantees to be given a free hand in choosing whether to join. If you are a funder, when would you invest in peer learning?

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MAY 3, 2011

Start with a framework to help structure thinking around the topic, but share your best wisdom, tips and resources. Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals features practical, easy to implement tips and takeaways from 50 leading experts – Ami Dar, Paul Hawken, and Holly Ross, among them.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. For over twenty-five 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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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. (You can review the slide deck to get the details of its growth in terms of global partners and software products). This first network was more formalized because of the risks involved in distributing software and also because of the funding investment.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. 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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APRIL 1, 2013

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Decision-making in generative social impact networks is distributed throughout members. They co-create the agenda and identify the priorities. A network is more adaptive than an organization.

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MAY 20, 2014

Want to look at structural racism, affordable housing or daycare, or gender and safety issues? She offers a few opportunities: Want information on current transporation patterns (Lyft, Uber, Car share, bikeshare)? Want information on tourism patterns (Airbnb, Homeaway)? analyze use patterns from any of the aforementioned).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Structure: How will they estimate, describe and test the operational structure? He shared some the basics of what grantmakers should look for in a nonprofit business plan: 1. Market: Is there a need for this? Are there already 20 groups doing this? Is this new and unique? Competitors? What kind of marketing, staffing, and tech?

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APRIL 8, 2011

Don’t push networks to centralize and create format structures in order to manage when the network does not need this structure. Don’t hire a person to be the “network leader.&# Ultimately, networks are shared responsibility. Don’t use conventional evaluation criteria to assessing network impact.

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JULY 6, 2012

We dropped the formal book club structure (Week 2: Question 3 ….”) Its flat structure has enabled me to steward while not quite leading the group through our discussions. and started to steward the conversation around Network Nonprofit themes. The Facebook Group functionality has been fantastic for the Book Club.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

In addition, they’ve changed the physical structure of LCW so that there are fewer desks for the staff to stand or sit behind. Open architecture: LCW creates situations where they don’t name a structure for something. Someone from the LCW sits down with them and talks about the variety of programs that are available.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

The committee includes of staff members interested in workplace wellness.The committee structure includes a chair, financial coordinator, communication coordinator and other members so the work is distributed. Christina, who previously worked for the local Y association where she led wellness initiatives, recently became the chair.

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APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first?

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JULY 23, 2012

What we’ve found has been really positive—for the most part, our work has been making a difference, and our existing program structure has served our Programs and grantees well. Through this process, we’ve considered what works well, and where we can experiment with being more effective and having more impact.

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JULY 24, 2013

Following the icebreaker, we got an overview of networks and network development and short case studies from participants were shared during the day. We had ample time for structured small group discussion on specific questions and an “open space” style small group session areas of practice.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Some nonprofits have surveyed their audiences on Facebook or Twitter in less structured ways to get feedback on content and engagement ideas. I’ve done so on my own Facebook Page. Collections Management team. Photographer. Front of House team. Museum Management. Fundraising team.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Monitor Group senior consultant Heather Grant McLeod made the fascinating point that many of these established organizations began life as networks but adopted centralized organizational structures to bend to their funders or funding model.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Venture Philanthropy Partners: Capacity building includes 7 nonprofit elements: aspirations, strategies, organizational skills, human resources, systems/infrastructure, organizational structure and culture.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The Grantmakers Gathering on Networks provided a few a-ha moments for me about network leadership: The first leader or leaders in a network are like first responders at the scene of a crash—they’re in charge of making things happen until the structures get set up to fully address the situation.

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JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants.

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