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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 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. ” Individual Techniques. Within seconds I went to enjoying time off with friends to being on work duty.”

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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. It facilitates conversation.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

Q: WHAT IS THE BIGGEST SHIFT YOU’VE SEEN WHEN IT COMES TO INDIVIDUAL STRESS MANAGEMENT AS A RESULT OF THE PANDEMIC? The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. Excessive absenteeism and loss of purpose.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.” Let’s start with a definition first. And, those who wanted to make money would head to Wall Street. That’s changed.

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The Ultimate Online Fundraising: Guide + 10 Top Ideas

Bloomerang

When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Remember that recurring gifts shouldn’t encourage a “set it and forget it” attitude. With a Google Ad campaign, your organization can bid on relevant keywords to earn ad spots at the top of search results pages.

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