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Walking During Board Retreats: A Few Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not only was the work on trying to figure out outcomes (and the measures) stimulating, we also incorporated movement into our day long meeting. 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. However, this was far from it.

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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

It is important to get your team on the same page, create a strategy for execution, and monitor/measure the progress, outcomes, and result of the change. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. Measure Your Progress. Phase 1: Prepare your Approach. Be patient. The Hand Off.

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance.

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

ASU Lodestar Center

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. The two key words are “meaningful impact.”

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. And again, this idea that death is as natural as birth, it’s inevitable sooner or later, we’re all hoping for later, of course, but, at times in life, it’s more top of mind. So, Claire, I will pipe down here. Here we go.

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? So we actually draw our strategic plans, our impact strategies, as mind maps. They are not documents, there is no fancy graphic design, they are mind maps. It’s hard.”

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