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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? I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. What is Brainstorming? .

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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. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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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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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

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I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Movement is better than sitting.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide.

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Time Management for Nonprofit Social Media Professionals: What’s Your Best Tip?

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In the nonprofit sector, time is our most valuable resource. Co-workers stop and chat at your desk or a colleague asks you to compile a report. Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? Brain Fitness.

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The Happy Healthy Data Nerd: Using Your Personal Health Data to Support Your Wellbeing

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I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword. Start with getting enough sleep.

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