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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. Why did you decide to include that material in the book?

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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

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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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How To Use Improv In Business

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Kulhan, who was trained in improv by notables including Amy Poehler and Tina Fey , also teaches you in his book the powerful difference between "Yes, and." is a technique that slows the brain down. Warm up to change your energy and attitude. and "Yes, but." "Yes, Yes, and." Communicate like you’re in an improv show.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help participants self-assess their skills or attitudes by seeing aggregate data on the screen together and have it be catalyst for reflection.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. 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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#NTCwinning: Reflecting on What Went Well at the 2012 NTC

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NTCwinning 2: Learning Everywhere So much teaching and learning happens at the NTC and that makes us proud. Nearly 300 of you shared your knowledge as a speakers, not to mention the teaching and sharing that happened over meals and in-between the sessions. that panel on innovation really got the brain juice flowing.

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