Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA ’s unique premise is that business leaders in any industry, any function, and at any level need the same core knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively manage and lead. And it links you to a website where you alone or in a group can supplement your reading with some interactive exercises and resources.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

As you read the book, you’ll also benefit from the book’s specific exercises, checklists and reflection questions to challenge your thinking and encourage growth and success. Be prepared to transform your attitude, mindset and habits to break against the status quo. These are the leaders with the Phoenix Attitude.

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Method Phoenix Leadership Attitude 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As you read the book, you’ll also benefit from the book’s specific exercises, checklists and reflection questions to challenge your thinking and encourage growth and success. Be prepared to transform your attitude, mindset and habits to break against the status quo. These are the leaders with the Phoenix Attitude.

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Phoenix Method Attitude Exercise 52

Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

Your attitude predicts your outcome. The point of the exercise is to be honest about the value you are bringing to the organization!). Be humbled by the sheer volume you see there and then shift your attitude to match it. It’s to prove your worth to yourself in order to transform your attitude!

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Metrics Attitude Empowerment Environment 59

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The evidence-based exercises will give you a firsthand look at the tendency of external negativity to create internal turmoil and stress and exactly how to reduce those feelings.

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Technique Exercise Chapter Life 72

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. Burnout also means feeling unmotivated and feeling stuck and ineffective.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Embrace Adaptability It may be hard for “button-up” organizations to introduce a more casual attitude. It may be challenging for “buttoned-up” organizations, where people are in the habit of “following rules,” to introduce a more casual attitude. But digital markets revolve around reinvention.

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Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2019

Authored by Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton , it’s a high-readable book, packed with stories and takeaway exercises. Which areas require me to make an attitude adjustment so I can become more passionate? Vision, Strategy, and Alignment : The progression from plans to accomplishments marks a true leader. What do I like about my job?

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Attitude Chart Leadership Exercise 40

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner. Most everyone in attendance arrived with the same knowledge base and eager attitude to learn together as these tools mature.

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Chicago Knowledge Practice Attitude 59

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Attitude If you don't have the attitude that you can solve a problem creatively, you never will. She did an exercise Seelig teaches to her students: Pick a random object in your space and figure out how it can help you solve your problem. 6 (Space Matters), #7 (Reframe the Problem) and #9 (Attitude) were my favs.

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Attitude Student Classroom Problem 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

I always start a panel with a living assessment of the audience to discover their experience, knowledge, and attitudes about the topic to be presented. The value of doing an exercise like this is that helps the participants connect with what they already know so they can take in new ideas more easily.

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Reflection Data Slides Exercise 95

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 21, 2016

The book, The Star Factor , shows you a unique system for unlocking the wisdom of your stellar performers and transforming that knowledge into actionable steps to help other employees internalize these new attitudes and behaviors. Guided Practice - completing weekly practice exercises four to six months into the process.

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Attitude Phase Leadership Exercise 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Today''s guest post is by: Peggy Pedwano Solutions Specialist at Halogen Software As performance appraisal time draws near, managers are all too likely to be dreading the exercise. Factors such as personality compatibility can impact your attitude without your knowledge – guard against them.

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Effective Tips Attitude Evaluation 60

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 9, 2012

I love getting to know them personally while hosting them in our office, and their attitudes remind me that my job is a privilege. Peter: a former mechanic who rarely smiles but keeps coming back, week after week, and Lorraine: a well-dressed socialite who buys every employee in our department a present on her birthday.

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Job Attitude Exercise Volunteer 83

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 12, 2015

The new book, The Star Factor , shows you a unique system for unlocking the wisdom of your stellar performers and transforming that knowledge into actionable steps to help other employees internalize these new attitudes and behaviors. Guided Practice - completing weekly practice exercises four to six months into the process.

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Difference Attitude Phase Leadership 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan. Later in the day, we did a network mapping exercise. Network Mapping Exercise. Some interesting points of reciprocity: - Word people versus Visual Addicts.

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Network Build Exercise Map 99

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Today''s guest post is by: Peggy Pedwano Solutions Specialist at Halogen Software As performance appraisal time draws near, managers are all too likely to be dreading the exercise. Factors such as personality compatibility can impact your attitude without your knowledge – guard against them.

Effective 40

Effective Attitude Evaluation Software 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . We two more exercises to learn about their personal and organizational social media use - a stand up and sit down exercise.

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Social Media Training Train Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Openers can include fun icebreakers that give people a chance to know and trust other people in the group. Sometimes we include too much content, other times an exercise takes longer than we expected or the group just needs to move slower.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2014

Today''s guest post is by: Peggy Pedwano Solutions Specialist at Halogen Software As performance appraisal time draws near, managers are all too likely to be dreading the exercise. Factors such as personality compatibility can impact your attitude without your knowledge – guard against them.

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Effective Attitude Review Evaluation 40

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2011

For example, if your excuse is “I don’t have time to exercise&# then you are simply justifying your behavior to not exercise. You’ve to to adopt a new attitude and take a “No Excuses Approach&# to your work. You see, an excuse is just a way to let yourself off the hook.

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Fundraising Exercise Attitude Sound 53

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

It all depends on my attitude. The project could have been an exercise in guilt and public humiliation, but instead, it felt like a game. It may be hard sometimes, and the information I learn may be sad, maddening, or depressing, but it’s up to me to choose what attitude I bring to my work and to find the fun in it. The answer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. Repeat the exercise, this time with the goal of moving one person to the opposite side of the room.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. They could even complete a ratings-based assessment before and after learning a topic, to test how their opinions, attitudes, or mindsets surrounding the topic changed. Matching, Labeling, and Sorting.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Aliza and I are looking for examples nonprofit workplace culture that supports the self-care of individuals. Maybe it helps to have a definition of what we’re talking when say “work place culture.”

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Culture Nonprofit Articulate Attitude 50

BoardAssist

AUGUST 25, 2015

Here’s a powerful morale-boosting exercise/game you can play with your board members to help them create and rehearse their personal story. She has contagious energy and an enthusiastic attitude. They need practice with an elevator speech – but it can’t be learned or memorized. It has to be their OWN PERSONAL STORY of why they care.

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Open Teach Attitude Conversation 40

Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2017

Your fundraisers are uniquely suited to exercise emotional intelligence and key you in on physicians’ and board members’ reactions to the projects at hand. They will give you a pulse on roles, feelings and attitudes. Include them all in the plan as you strategize with the philanthropic leaders so that it is a team approach.

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Philanthropy Tips Government Foundation 38

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Such programs predominantly include addressing homelessness and food insecurity, as well as improving nutrition and exercise. Grant goals include improving navigation and care coordination, expanding capacity for services that treat uninsured and under-insured individuals, and improving individual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

So he suggests that organizations don’t have weight loss competitions, but make it easier for employees to exercise. But when this becomes the cultural norm, it is not effective. The research shows that when we overwork, we are way less productive, and it is also starts to impact our attitude and health.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It takes a few simple steps, a positive attitude, a little support, and a good dose of courage. Keep that in your mind as you go through this exercise and it will make things a bit easier. Just like conquering fear of heights or fear of most anything, your fear of fundraising can be overcome.

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Gift Attitude Exercise Fun 40

BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2016

Tip: Try this mingle exercise with your board — or simply go around the table and ask people to share their stories. You’ll see a sea change in their attitude, commitment, enthusiasm and engagement levels. I have found that the quickest way to fan the flames of board members’ passion for the cause is asking them why they care.

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Tips PowerPoint Classroom Attitude 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Packed with uplifting personal stories, action steps and writing exercises, you’ll learn how to be accountable for developing your character, integrity, and commitment to reaching your goals. I’m proof that this attitude can succeed. Plus, you’ll learn: Why obstacles are a good thing. The value of a “Never Do Again” list.

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Game Los Angeles Life Course 52

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

During the two-hour session, we did a brainstorming exercise that I learned from Carol Lloyd, author of Creating a Life Worth Living. The next part of the exercise was to figure out what was stopping them from making their ideas real. They wanted to integrate social responsibility into their work, and make a decent living.

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Generation Student Exercise Alternative 41

Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s helpful to be present at the venue and to go through a visualization exercise with key staff or volunteers. This exercise is a great way to develop your checklist. Your attitude can help influence others, especially committee volunteers. Let’s pretend you’ve got your venue selected. Ready to visualize? Here we go!

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Personal Sponsor Virtual Volunteer 52

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 27, 2006

Postive attitude! I would tell you how old she is, but we're not allowed. I can tell you that her oldest daughter, my mom, is going to be 64 this year, so you can take it from there. How does my Gram stay looking so fabu? Nothing gets this lady down. Help out/focus on other people. Don't isolate. Lotion, lotion, lotion! Learn/try new things.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Packed with uplifting personal stories, action steps and writing exercises, you’ll learn how to be accountable for developing your character, integrity, and commitment to reaching your goals. I’m proof that this attitude can succeed. Plus, you’ll learn: Why obstacles are a good thing. The value of a “Never Do Again” list.

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Game Life Los Angeles Course 52