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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. They also need to find the time and opportunities for these conversations to occur.

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Recap: Nonprofits & AI – A Conversation with Devi Thomas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies. These examples of micro productivity examples can applied easily to working. Use Cases We discussed different use cases beyond productivity for writing tasks and processing email.

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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. Embrace a challenge.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Our discussion about the Summit Award launched a wide-ranging conversation. When they compare the expense to their professional income, both parents working may not seem productive. That’s great advice for anyone considering scaling back. A family might be paying $25,000 a year for childcare. Networking takes practice.

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Advice for Starting A New Fundraising Job

Bloomerang

Start by having thoughtful conversations with your supervisor that help you establish stretch-but-realistic goals and objectives. After productive discussion, put the results in writing. The post Advice for Starting A New Fundraising Job appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Make Space—Lighten the Load for Your Heavy Lifters

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This has the potential to be a challenging conversation. These conversations can give your space-making perspective and help you become more adept at redistributing the load.” Because they have an intimate knowledge of products and services. Sharon and Jennifer’s conversation explores these ideas in depth.

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Experts Offer Advice For How To Lead During 2021

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Today, the following expert business and leadership book authors shared their advice for how to effectively lead during 2021. My question to them was: What is your advice for leaders as we enter what is surely to be a challenging 2021 for most businesses? The converse is also true.

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