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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. ” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. .” All ideas are as valid as each other. Encourage as many ideas as possible. Quantity matters.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

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Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged.

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Walking During Board Retreats: A Few Tips

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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. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving.

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

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He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 NTC this year talking about the ideas in his recent book, “ Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work.” I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. I thought was done!

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

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Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. Once in the panic zone, changes become very hard to navigate as our body goes into a maximum stress mode, our emotions get elevated, and our brains shut down and become closed off to solutions and suggestions. Implement the solution.

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Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Personal Productivity Tips for Nonprofits

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Maura Thomas , a speaker and trainer on productivity for nonprofits and author of Personal Productivity Secrets , explains personal productivity is not time management, a 20th century idea that has outlived its usefulness in a world of email and social networks. Mindfulness' It is all about managing your attention.

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A look at 15 best and (almost) free mind mapping tools for nonprofits

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Or anything else with a center (read: core idea or problem) and shoots (related points to consider for that idea realization or problem solving). The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. It's a visual representation of keynote thoughts centered around the main idea. Why use mind maps in your nonprofit practice?

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