Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can also be used for those who coach, mentor, counsel and advise early career women, with insights and exercises for those you are supporting. Christie Hunter Arscott Today, Hunter Arscott shares these additional insights with us: Question: How can women address and improve feelings of frustration and burnout in their careers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. The report offers some great tips and advice to those managing emerging leaders on how to mentor them. Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. What does it look like? Leadership'

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Qgiv: What advice would you give to a young woman interested in software engineering? Sandra: My biggest advice would be to not get intimidated by the field. Qgiv: What advice would you give to a woman aspiring to become a tech company leader? Ask questions. Bring new ideas to the table. Jess: Your voice matters.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

That’s why it’s a good idea to start your peer-to-peer recruitment efforts with them. Remember, since most of your volunteers probably haven’t participated in a P2P fundraiser before, they’ll need some advice and guidance to ensure they reach their personal fundraising goals. Reach out to long-time, engaged volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Like any other skill you want to improve, it helps to get a baseline assessment of your listening skills. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

So many of the ideas resonate that it is one of those books where I’m highlighting and making notes. You probably spend many of your waking hours helping others, connecting people who can benefit from knowing each other, and offering mentoring and advice. Interesting food for thought.

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Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

The survey included just three question fields: a name field, an email address field, and a section with checkboxes where volunteers indicated which area(s) interested them. I also included some program ideas that had been on the backburner for a while. I surveyed volunteers by sending a short survey using Google Forms.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Online forums and communities with members-only access can also provide a platform for people to exchange ideas and collaborate. This is not only beneficial to mentees; it’s also rewarding for mentors. For newer organizations (and many mid-size nonprofits, too), offering healthcare is probably out of the question.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Subject lines with questions have higher open rates. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. If the gift was toward a campaign or designated for a special purpose, it’s a good idea to include that information as well for the donor’s reference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media. Parents and other adult mentors are looking for guidance and appreciate opportunities to discuss their questions, frustrations, and hopes when it comes to their kids’ digital lives. Question: We’d love to hear from you.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If you put your question in there, it might have a little bit more visibility. But no matter where you ask that question, we’ll see it, and we will try to get to it before the 4:00 Eastern hour here. You can also tweet us those questions and comments, we’d love to hear from you there. It’s not a question.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In addition to finding cool ideas, you’ll learn a lot about what you want or don’t want at your event. Talk to other organizations and ask for their advice on executing a successful event. Ask some of your supporters this exact question! She said tequila was hot, but my reaction was to shoot down that idea cold.).

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

Hi friends, I've been inspired by this community for a long time - from being mentored by Britt Bravo when first starting a little Net2 chapter in Vancouver (which Elijah van der Giessen and team have turned into something huge and magnificently helpful), to being inspired by Amy Sample Ward to grow conversations and dig deeper.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

GROW is an acronym to help you remember when to ask certain open-ended questions or discuss certain topics in your conversation to ensure your time is productive and solution – focused. Of course, be sure to work with your staff team to get an outside perspective and seek advice from trusted colleagues, mentors, and managers.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A stellar toolkit: to help out their fundraisers, they put together a resource that answered common questions, provided basic fundraising advice, and laid out scripts for fundraisers to use. A virtual awards ceremony was a relatively new idea to us, and we loved the ways that Woven Health made it their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2008

This week I am an online mentor on the topic of " Effective Online Networking " as part of the Networking for Success project at the the Women???s My opening post shared some ideas and tips. Your Advice to African Women About Personal Online Networking Skills. Background. s Technology Empowerment Centre.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. I spent some time on the phone answering questions, referring resources, and later introduced her to colleagues. . We received a lot of great feedback and the idea took. She did a fantastic job.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Wendy : First, there’s this idea that Millennials want to go their own way and be outside institutions. What are the conversations that should be happening and what advice do you have for organizations on how to be the teacher? But finding a mentor and a champion, we were able to make things happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The idea is that participants would learn some of the best practices for these social media tactics and then design and implement an experiment and share their results with one another. As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Friday, December 24, 2010 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Having a mentor is one of the best things you can do to advance your career as a leader. Will this person take a genuine interest in me?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion. That is, wise mentors offer up plenty of suggestions to their mentees. Mentoring is all about sharing experiences. They pose alternatives.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I was offering them a clumsy gift--ideas they had inspired in me. Become their friends and invite them to be your mentors. I started to see generous mentors everywhere. I had good questions to ask them, and they had valuable advice to share. All those hallway conversations people say are so valuable? I had none.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Develop Their Court Vision In working with youth, its a good idea to have a strong, clear conception of what your organization aims to accomplish. As coaches, mentors, and teachers, we have to put our youth in situations where they learn the best ways to communicate with one another, help each other, and encourage one another.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Throughout the book, Williams provides detailed perspectives, tips, tools and practical advice to overcome the most typical challenges people encounter during the course of a career. Question : When should people start developing leadership skills? The best piece of advice I received: you can’t win if you’re not at the table.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

People kept seeking you out because, instead of acting like the stereotypical IT guy, speaking only in tech-ese, you answered their questions and helped them feel a bit less intimidated by tech tools. You found you had a knack for technology and you became your org's go-to person for computer problems. Are you a career NPtechie?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Friday, November 12, 2010 5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers I really like author Paul R. These open-ended questions will let your customers really express their ideas, opinions and needs.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. A few months ago, I pitched this panel idea to Steven and he immediately got behind it. Sarah, I’m going to start with you in the first question.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Have you ever had difficulty getting others to accept your ideas? Thanks to Sharon Armstrong, author of The Essential HR Handbook , for these helpful questions! What was your approach?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sunday, May 9, 2010 Ask These Five Questions If you are leading a business or a nonprofit organization, take the hour or two to read Peter F. Who is our Customer? What does the Customer Value?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sunday, August 22, 2010 5 Tips For Generating Ideas From Employees Your employees have lots of ideas. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips: Encourage ALL ideas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. I bet most employees have never heard most of these questions from their supervisors on a consistent basis. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Tuesday, September 21, 2010 How Do You Answer These Leadership Questions? Thanks for these great questions, Charlene! Do I make myself available to people at all levels of the organization?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 29, 2019

Throughout the book, Williams provides detailed perspectives, tips, tools and practical advice to overcome the most typical challenges people encounter during the course of a career. Question : When should people start developing leadership skills? The best piece of advice I received: you can’t win if you’re not at the table.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

They are socially responsible and environmentally responsible companies, but are in need of some additional assistance, mostly strategic advice, that helps them scale to the next level. I think where we get our competitive advantage is that the caliber of our advisors is far and above any kind of advice that you find out there.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

Upon their arrival, Nigel gives this piece of advice. This is when you’re going to have to follow Spencer’s advice: You need each other. There were two male guards standing outside of the facility and the team came up with a brilliant idea. Find someone who will mentor you and show you the ropes.

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