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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. It is also important to target the right level of authority.

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What Does an eLearning Consultant Do? The Complete Guide

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An eLearning consultant can help you evaluate the types of content that will best engage your association’s members, manage subject matter experts to ensure that content is well-informed, and author those courses after doing so. Course authoring. Converting courses to new formats. Your current eLearning programming is underperforming.

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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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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

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When you work with an e-learning content development company to author a custom course, you can make it more relatable to your team’s experience. Luckily, there are ways to structure your e-learning in a way that’s accessible while still remaining effective: Consider using microlearning courses.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

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It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. 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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Experiential Leadership Development

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More recently, with support from the Packard Foundation, I’ve been working on an Emerging Leadership Development project with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies. We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project.