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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

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When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

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Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

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Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. Personally, I need both kinds of learning and the challenge is balancing it.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Used as a facilitation technique in training can also help people generate ideas on how to apply the skills or concepts being taught. Write them on a flip chart, white board, or slide so everyone can see it. see above).

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

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Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. So, you have to design for that.