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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. 83% of executives we surveyed said that their meetings were an unproductive use of time. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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My calendar and ‘To Do’ list were written in a notebook. Forms can be used to survey volunteers and program participants about their experiences with your organization, gather opinions from donors about an upcoming strategic plan, and about 100 other things. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. With a pen.

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How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. 83% of executives we surveyed said that their meetings were an unproductive use of time. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Engaging Recurring Donors: 4 Impactful Strategies

Achieve

Your nonprofit likely keeps a full event calendar, and sending out a personalized invitation to your recurring donors can be an extra nudge towards encouraging them to attend. However, the human brain naturally has some difficulty grasping exceptionally large numbers of exactly what percentages mean. an online peer-to-peer campaign. .

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. You could say, “That project sounds great, but my calendar is full and I don’t have the ability to commit to that right now.” Notice.Talk.Act.®

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Don’t Roast a Hen for Every Meal: Making Nonprofit Marketing Doable

Forum One

Here is Miller's specific advice for the overwhelmed nonprofit: Plan out your editorial calendar: It's like planning out your menus for the week or month. Use tools like Google Calendar to assign work and plan publishing in whatever time frame is realistic for you -- week, month, or quarter.

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The Essentials to Writing a Content Marketing Strategy | Every Nonprofit Communicator Needs to See This.

Connection Cafe

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. editorial calendars. content curation. content marketing automation.

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