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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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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. What is Brainstorming? . Basic Approaches.

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Four Tips To Boost Your Personal Resilience While Doing Nonprofit Work

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I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. This technique is simple. Alternately, you can imagine yourself doing an activity that energizes you.

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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results

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Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives. Look at both the detail and the big picture. Make things to explore, test and learn. Make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. Has your nonprofit used design thinking for strategy, problem solving, or new idea generation?

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6 Fun Icebreakers for Nonprofit Training Sessions

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I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Show an alternative use of the napkin by tearing or folding. Icebreakers Can Be Fun! And one more.

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How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Preparing for a Hybrid Event

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While lockdowns and stay at home orders are in place, virtual events are the best alternative to postponing or canceling an event altogether. This program was put together by the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) and trains facilities in biorisk reduction, proper cleaning and sanitization techniques, and ensures access and use of PPE.

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