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Four Tips To Boost Your Personal Resilience While Doing Nonprofit Work

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We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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Teams also has video conferencing, as an alternative to Zoom , as well as file storage. But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. Check out bullet journaling.

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Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap

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Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. Adaptability.

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Gratitude: 2016’s Word of the Year

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That’s what was on my mind as I made my way through the final week of 2015, with my mind clear, rested from the break but not yet ready to gear up for a return to work. The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W. And the alternative is this.

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How Are You Taking A Summer Break from Your Tech?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. ” It is a technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact. Last March, I tucked my mobile phone into a sleeping bag (see above) and turned off the screens. I need to do a digital detox once a quarter or even once a month, not once a year.

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Hone Your Craft: The Art of Nonprofit Storytelling

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Even stories about alternate worlds and mystical creatures get us caught in the feels. And to tell a story that is interesting or compelling to someone else is to know what stories are already in their brains. Some of our favorite stories are fiction, and some of them are nonfiction. Starting your story from scratch.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Within the modules, I break it down in 15 minute blocks.