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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

Science says: We’re wired for negative Sadly, our brains are wired to respond to negative messages. Negative events impact our brains more than positive events. This is especially true for mass marketing messages and broad fundraising appeals for monumental events like hurricanes or earthquakes.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Don’t waste valuable brain power. Make room for experiments that may not produce positive results. A collegial attitude that contributes to productive relationships. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Intimidation is Roundup for creativity. Welcome every proposal. Don’t be a team in name only.

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3 Easy Ways to Make Employees Want to Come to Work

NonProfit Hub

Here are some ideas on how to make work more fun, which will result in a lower turnover rate and happier, more productive employees. Games=Brain food. Playing a game every once in a while is a great way to reset and activate parts of your brain you wouldn’t normally use at work. Food, food, food.

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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

Cloud 4 Good

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. Most everyone in attendance arrived with the same knowledge base and eager attitude to learn together as these tools mature.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. In other words, to what end?

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How To Use Improv In Business

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"It is a driving passion of mine to get people to understand that improv skills can be effectively translated into the business world with powerful results," says Bob Kulhan , veteran improv performer, university professor, and author of the fascinating new book, Getting To "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv. and "Yes, but." "Yes,

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How To Stop Your Nonprofit’s After Hours Email Habit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other online collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Time away from work and being online produces new ideas and fresh insights.

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