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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Build Staff Expertise and Reduce Information Overload

NTEN

By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. [Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. That’s less true.

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Rapid Realignment Teaches Leaders How To Adapt And Stay Focused

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Spend some quality time with the new book, Rapid Realignment , and you'll learn how to ensure that your strategy, customers, processes and people work seamlessly together in the service of customers and that those four elements continually realign in the face of constant change. The authors, Dr. George H.

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How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. As author David Grossman says, "good internal communication gets the message out, but great internal communication helps employees connect the dots between overarching business strategy and their role.

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Build These Leadership Skills

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. Hes the author of three best-selling books, including Re-engage and The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave. Curious: wouldn't being authentic also lead to having integrity.

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How to Make Your Big Vision Real: Jennifer Lee of Artizen Coaching

Have Fun - Do Good

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. It took me a few years to actually go through the training. I went through the training, I guess, six years ago. I don't have all of the skills needed to run a business. I tend to attract that. Who knew?"

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How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobsen Blog

So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls. These are in what I consider is the best chapter of the book The Essential HR Handbook , that she co-authored with Barbara Mitchell. Clustering everyone in the middle performance-rating categories 2.