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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. Before the Session.

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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. If you want a sneak peek, take a look at the article we co-authored on nonprofit digital transformation published last month in the Harvard Business Review.

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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Your team may need to be educated about the urgency for and the benefits of embarking on a diversity plan. An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. Do the research.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Participants can benefit from leadership development, knowledge sharing, network building, collaborations or partnerships, and/or compensation. . Committees tend to be smaller groups of selected representatives who review and decide on grants. Ample time and support for review of materials as well as group discussion and debate.

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

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As the field of volunteer engagement has become more professionalized and as organizations grow and mature, many that historically benefited from auxiliaries now recognize some of the challenges inherent in these relationships. Having an outside facilitator helps to ensure that all voices are heard and that the process keeps moving forward.

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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. If you want a sneak peek, take a look at the article we co-authored on nonprofit digital transformation published last month in the Harvard Business Review.

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work. Since I do this every year, I also review what I wrote at the start of the last year. Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops , I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance.

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