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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude. I like to hire people with positive attitudes as we can train people for almost everything except attitude.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude. I like to hire people with positive attitudes as we can train people for almost everything except attitude.

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Leadership Attitude Chapter Culture 52

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. All of the sessions were educational, practical, and left me with a head full of new ideas to consider and apply once back in the (virtual) office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.” The New Social Economy. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work. They want to combine both.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 6, 2019

I particularly found useful Watkin's discussion on culture , where he wrote: Culture is the collective attitudes within a group, team or organization, and they manifest in : Customs : traditional practices that may be honored, not necessarily repetitive. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

And, then in Part 2, he digs into how to cultivate a workaround attitude and mindset, including how to reflect on the ways you typically see, judge, and approach obstacles. “I This book shows how the business world can learn from the innovative wit and practical ingenuity of these “ugly ducklings.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

A lot of his ideas connect to social media strategy best practices - for example the reiteration process and listen, learn, and adapt. Otherwise, attitudes don't change. Executive Creative Director of frog design , Robert Fabricant, leads multidisciplinary design teams, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We listened to lectures, participated in reflections and had the chance to hear about real life experiences in the sector. Our students attended everything from “Self-Care and Wellbeing as a Leadership Practice” to “Advocacy in the Nonprofit Sector.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2014

I particularly found useful Watkin''s discussion on culture , where he wrote: Culture is the collective attitudes within a group, team or organization, and they manifest in : Customs : traditional practices that may be honored, not necessarily repetitive. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture.

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Leadership Lecture Attitude Culture 68

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

I particularly found useful Watkin''s discussion on culture , where he wrote: Culture is the collective attitudes within a group, team or organization, and they manifest in : Customs : traditional practices that may be honored, not necessarily repetitive. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture.

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Leadership Lecture Attitude Culture 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is building time in for reflection and putting I find out into practice. Sense making is also experimenting and learning by doing. It is also a process that happens, in part, in quiet – and for me that means embracing slowness. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude. I like to hire people with positive attitudes as we can train people for almost everything except attitude.

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Leadership Attitude Chapter Culture 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

We’ve come a long way since the early days of social media in terms of measurement practice. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

I particularly found useful Watkin''s discussion on culture , where he wrote: Culture is the collective attitudes within a group, team or organization, and they manifest in : Customs : traditional practices that may be honored, not necessarily repetitive. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture.

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Leadership Lecture Attitude Culture 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude. I like to hire people with positive attitudes as we can train people for almost everything except attitude.

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Leadership Attitude Chapter Culture 67

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Sudden cynical attitude about the job, company, or working conditions . It is okay to not always have a “can-do” attitude if your plate is already overflowing. The “cannot-do” attitude can mean that you are prioritizing your work to be more effective to generate results. . Daily Practices to Prevent Employee Burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

. — Peter Drucker , Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practice. And your attitude will be contagious. focused on asking strategies and practice sessions). Culture tends to reflect who’s in charge. How to Fulfill Your Responsibility. It will simply frustrate and depress you. Not in a good way.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

What eLearning assessment best practices can strengthen your courses? Then, we’ll wrap up with a few best practices to take your assessments to the next level. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report is written for funders and those on the ground doing the work in the context of networks, although it doesn’t go deep into practice. Metrics can help, and building them into organizational culture can be facilitated by having someone with responsibilities to make it happen – and to steep others in the new practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. The Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2016

.” The study found that there was a gap between intention and actual practice. The article suggests that we reflect on this data point and ask two questions, “Do you want to work for free? People who took more than 10 of their vacation days had a 65.4% chance of receiving a raise or bonus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The challenge has to do with organizational beliefs and work styles. Whether it be a widely held belief that measurement practice is not worth investing resources. Make the case to improve your measurement practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. We then did our respective workshops on strategy and tactics and then reconvened as a whole group to do a little bit of a reflection. Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. What does this look like in practice? It isn’t enough to just read an article about good team collaboration, it is also necessary to practice it in the workplace.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Outcomes are used to identify a change in behavior, attitude, or knowledge in the people being served by the project. Outcomes usually reflect the long-term impact of a project toward solving a community problem or toward improving the lives of the people served by the project. Project Outcomes. Objectives. Evaluation Plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

and “Who are the ACLU-NJ’s stakeholders?” These questions were submitted to the brainstorming team the day beforehand so each person had time to reflect. Change in attitude about your organization. “Who is our audience and who do we want them to be?” What was easy about defining success? Social Media Presence: ACLUNJ.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2015

If attitude reflects leadership , the constant optimism and critical thinking coming from these thought leadership blogs reflects the attitude of the nonprofit industry as a whole. My number 3 resource is one that I have visited every day since I started diving into nonprofit best practices early this summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I'm sort of foggy on all the questions - due to my tired state, but the first set of opinion statements was "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for practical reasons" and "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for philosophical reasons." What are the best practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Do a Google search and you can find a great deal of research on virtually all aspects of interests, attitudes and aptitudes for Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and the Matures. The internal silos must be broken down to reflect the multiple channels and need for message consistency across those channels. " Mark Twain.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

In most sessions, I didn't learn new things to apply to my own museum practice; instead, I learned new things about what that practice looks like in different countries. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. This blog post was originally published in 2014, but has been updated to reflect the most updated charitable giving data and trends. Don’t treat your donors like gumballs. Chew ‘em up. Spit ‘em out! Don’t stick ‘em in your database to save for later.

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