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. Model cooperative behavior. I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?"

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Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 92

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. What attitudes toward evaluation are present?

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Evaluation Program Attitude Instruction 52

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Multiple-choice assessments are those that pose a question with three to five accompanying responses.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

Innovation and problem solving Utilize emotional drivers to achieve a deeper understanding of member needs. Identify potential challenges by anticipating problems and mitigating conflict. It is a one-dimensional attitude toward what should be a dynamic relationship. Customer experience turns the tables.

Life 221

Life Digital Data Skills 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Less ‘we know better’ attitudes. If you believe nonprofits are largely inefficient, lack key technical skills and abilities, don’t understand their business model, you create a funding system high on accountability, compliance, and funder-driven. Doing More by Doing Less – guest post by David Greco.

United States 104

United States Seattle Attitude Fund 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. As the report points out, movement organizers are grappling with big questions.

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Metrics Fund Build Social 114

.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

As our consciousness expanded, we realized that the leadership team needed to model the behavior we were seeking to promote. Behavior and attitudes evolve over time. You need to understand how to get the right mix of thinking and ideas to solve your problems efficiently. Today folks are collaborating to solve problems.

Culture 221

Culture Skills Collaboration Associations 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Non-profits know this is true, but the problem is investing in the resources needed to become a data-driven non-profits.&#. Tips for Making the Switch.

Culture 115

Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A crowd made up of diverse people with as many perspectives as there are people can, when faced with a question, problem or idea, generate a coalescing of sense and thence a consensus. A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position.

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. Training Design'

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

OK, these are hard problems to solve. We agreed that getting representation from commercial organizations like Google and Amazon at our Global Health Data meetings could well provide useful insights into the problems we wrestle with.). We'll continue to explore that key question in a couple of months when we meet again.

Global 52

Global Data Seattle Finland 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This isn't just a rhetorical question. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Some intuitively know and use the new model.

Story 79

Story Action Model Adopt 79

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Business guru Peter F.

Culture 47

Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. and licensing models. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

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Open Source Open Application Oracle 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

I haven't yet digested the report, but I was pleased to see that the report wasn't just a series of data findings, but also include some in-depth reporting on attitudes about using the tools. There is a chicken and the egg problem. Nonprofits are still struggling to answer to the "What it is and why it matters" questions.

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Adopt Web Cambodia Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. s surroundings as a form of problem-solving. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Performance ???

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

We all have problems getting in the door—they’re just different doors. It’s no surprise that positive in-person interactions that support a variety of languages, attitudes, and experience in museums can be the biggest factor in promoting inclusion. I think the religious institution model is a particularly interesting one.

People 20

People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Keep up the great work and please don’t hesitate to come to me with any questions! They found one really big problem, and found one creative and relevant way to appeal to teenagers.”. For example: “My old jersey number was 23, so this year I’m asking for $23 to my fundraiser. If even half of you gave $23, I would be at X amount!”.

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Goal Fundraising Help Africa 306

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Here are 10 questions Polaris recommends you ask employees as part of a wide-ranging employee satisfaction and engagement survey : For each of the following statements, indicate if you: • Strongly disagree • Disagree • Somewhat disagree • Agree • Strongly agree 1.

Survey 55

Survey Mentoring Kansas City Attitude 55

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

To provide a benchmark – or a snapshot of your employees and their attitudes at a certain point of time that you can then compare to future surveys to spot trends. To solve problems in one easy step — because a survey is a means to an end, not an end in itself. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Survey Mentoring Kansas City Kansas 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

Professional 45

Professional Mentoring Kansas City Kansas 45

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I think so far it's similar to the BarCamp event model where it started out as being a lot of geeks and people online, because it spread through online vehicles. We recently created a second model to meet additional demand, and also to extend the size of our coworking community here.

Green 40

Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. The problem is that my current audience is vocal and my future audience is silent. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning.

Library 20

Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. To be able to anticipate problems and opportunities, rather than just responding when it can almost feel like too late? I’m Amy Costello.

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System Tech Government Classes 73

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. Somebody else has got to save the polar bears, I've got to save myself," is sort of the basic attitude. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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Green Interview Oakland Government 41