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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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These are additional benefits that the willingness to explore accomplishments as well as setbacks can deliver: The National Association of Corporate Directors reports that boards that conduct self-assessments are more likely to have high-performing CEOs. This exercise takes a little practice. What could we have done better?

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

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In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

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This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Organizational reporting. Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”?

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This is a terrific write up of the session I presented on “ Learning in Public “ Bridge Building or Trust Busting – a Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? Otherwise, the whole exercise can end up being frustrating. – Guest post by Stefan Lanfer.

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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

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More recent books on these methods include Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo and Visual Meetings by David Sibbet (I took David Sibbet’s workshop on visual meeting facilitation and wrote up some reflections here.). Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

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As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

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The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).