Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

“We might lie awake at night worrying, withdraw from work, or react in ways we later regret—rolling our eyes in a meeting, snapping at colleagues, or staying silent when we should speak up,” says Gallo. Or throw up our hands because one-size-fits-all solutions haven't worked. Experiment to find what works. Know your goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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NetWits

AUGUST 11, 2011

The seven event fundraising techniques or “best practices&# described here emerged from analyzing data and interviewing nonprofit event and development staff. With email that valuable, it makes sense to do some of the leg work for participants. Register Now ! Data also indicates that the average online donation amount is $60.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven. Think about your current work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I am thrilled to be presenting with my colleague, Ananda Leeke in Boston next week at the Resilience at Work Conference. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. This technique is simple. How do you incorporate mindful moments or movement into your work day?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. is successful for the simplest of reasons: it works. For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. It can also be used to create work norms or processes.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 26, 2021

A nonprofit's annual appeal is a critical campaign to sustain its good work. Here are six techniques you can consider that have led to improved results in recent campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

The problem is that everyone is drowning in unnecessary work and inefficiencies that prevent them from focusing on the work that drives results. Sonnenberg believes that by implementing the CPR Framework, you and your team will: Reduce stress and burnout by creating a more stable work environment. What’s the missing link there?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team. Peer coaching can be formal, informal or a combination of both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2021

Today brings a timely and compelling book, Choosing Courage , by Jim Detert , where he shares how to increase the chance of accomplishing something positive when acting with courage at work, while decreasing negative personal consequences. In addition, there are two broad reasons to choose courage are legacy and regret , shares Detert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using rituals as part of our professional work is one strategy that can help. I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work. My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team. Peer coaching can be formal, informal or a combination of both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s been a one-hour weekly chat on Twitter for the past 10 months organized and hosted by Marc Meyer and Jason Breed. The way it works is they invite a “host&# to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

This approach works well if you’re really strapped for time. What techniques are you using to increase engagement with follow-up emails? They added this as a brief note above their original email. The note reiterated why action was needed and included a call to action link. 4) Deadline Alert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2012

They work in collaboration with health care providers, policy, and decision makers, industry experts, advocates, and individuals in communities across Colorado. One techniques she uses for new users that join the team is to create a “Twitter Scavenger Hunt.” ” By making Twitter fun, it inspires more regular use.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? Harriet’s going to explain how APA used convincing techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 4, 2018

You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team. Peer coaching can be formal, informal or a combination of both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

It lead us to discover the works of Gretchen Rubin , Charles Duhigg , BJ Fogg , and others. This notion comes from the work of Justin Brewer, Ph.D It is a simple technique: 1) notice the habit; 2) Ask yourself what you are getting out of it in the moment. Habit change research was one of our favorite rabbit holes to explore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. There is a whole book devoted to the topic, “ Rituals at Work.”) Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout provides a practical roadmap for getting better results from mission-based, social change work by paying closer attention to individual and organizational well-being.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 2, 2022

Using the right tools and techniques makes it easy to get more out of your association’s online community. . You just need the right tools and techniques in place to take it to the next level. . Work more efficiently. So, you can provide greater member value without a lot of added work. .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

This is the message that I want everyone to hear: The highest levels of accomplishments are achieved when we work in bursts; A burst of focused effort, followed by a burst of collaborative effort, and then followed by a burst of play time to get re-energized and ready for more. Second Technique: Micro-Planning™ Each 40-Minute Session.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Your solution to a business problem didn’t work? Wouldn’t it be great if there were some tools or techniques we could use to reduce our experiences with them? It’s also a collaborative technique to engage subject matter experts in identification of the true root cause of the problem. Did you ever wonder why….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, there is a lab at Stanford that studies workplace rituals and a book, “ Rituals at Work ,” devoted to the topic). Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

That holds us back from embracing networked ways of working. Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. Think about your current work. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. An important technique is to visualize your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. 3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2023

3 techniques for effective data-driven decision-making Whether you’re looking to acquire new donors, retain the ones already on your list, or upgrade existing donors, using your data to optimize your asks can help you reach the right supporters with the right messages at the right time, every time. Putting donor data to work There are over 1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

He describes a simple technique of taking 5 minutes every morning to write down 3 important tasks to accomplish and then reminding yourself every hour as to whether you have completed those tasks using your iPhone alarm. However, if you have to do “work” on Facebook, here’s some work flow tips for avoiding distraction.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

workforce -- work from home at least one or two days a week. If you are a leader of work-from-home employees, share the book, There''s No Place Like Working From Home , with them. Share it particularly with an employee new to working from his or her home. Working From Home'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

It's not about the work, but rather, the people who do the work." He further explains that leaders can no longer afford to ignore the shift toward a people-first culture and its direct influence on a healthy, effective work environment. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Not guiding the troops.

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