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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Remote work is challenging teams. Clarify Roles.

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Visual Meeting Facilitation Workshop with David Sibbet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We used sticky notes and the mandala template. David modeled a full group discussion to gather up all the ideas – using a template that used the basic flows of facilitation – attention, energy, information, and operations. Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect – be thinking about what’s next.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

Is technology tying your audience in knots? The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format. Perhaps it’s content that’s missing the mark. Maybe stale programming is stopping the love?

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.” ” This helped shift the energy and energize.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Digital disruption : The rise of digital platforms and online advertising has disrupted traditional revenue models for local news, making it difficult for many outlets to adapt. Nonprofits are being asked to address these challenges and find sustainable models for local journalism.

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage?