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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 the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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How To Stop Your Nonprofit’s After Hours Email Habit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Individual Techniques. One technique is to schedule your emails using a program like Boomerang for Gmail or if you use Outlook, use the scheduled delivery option. Within seconds I went to enjoying time off with friends to being on work duty.” It also sets up the expectation that your team should respond to them.

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How To Use Improv In Business

Eric Jacobsen Blog

He further explains that improvisation takes technique, training, practice, thoughtfulness and intelligence. is a technique that slows the brain down. This technique is one used effectively by the best improv professionals and Kulhan believes it's essential to succeeding in business. It facilitates conversation.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. What is your techniques or process visualizing data? Lay it out where you can really look at it. Establish the underlying coordinates.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

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. Sudden cynical attitude about the job, company, or working conditions . You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques.

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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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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

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By simply removing everthing except the changing data, your data will suddenly reveal the compelling story you are looking to spread - whether you are revealing conditions that are worsening, attitudes that are changes, or the improvements you organization is making.

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