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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

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Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. It is also a pivotal year for many community foundations as they consider whether to ramp up or wind down giving day initiatives in their communities. Year in Review.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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

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Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles. The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session.

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Reflections from Arts Leaders Workshop: Resilient Leaders from the Inside/Out

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My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” This workshop was based on the ideas in my forthcoming book, “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout ” co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Thx https://t.co/5uMFbEKR3y.

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. In the book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness, and (World Peace) , author Chade-Meng Tan offers 3 simple techniques to practice mindful conversations.

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