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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 nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

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As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Walking During Board Retreats: A Few Tips

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Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage.

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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

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Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

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I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” Mindfulness'

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

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I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.” From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. I thought was done!

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Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Personal Productivity Tips for Nonprofits

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Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Mindfulness'

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