Achieve

APRIL 30, 2014

Why do we expect volunteers to become donors or to up their gifts if their involvement has not been exciting, mind-expanding, and fun? Volunteer activities may demand creativity, brains, elbow grease, or a combination of all three. Let’s give volunteers rewarding work so they feel inspired to step up as stakeholders!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. My lesson plan includes a process documentation strategy of what and how I will document.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Like-minded folks can accomplish a lot, and expertise is not to be undervalued, but sometimes they can hit roadblocks. Like-minded folks can accomplish a lot, and expertise is not to be undervalued, but sometimes they can hit roadblocks.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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. Being adaptable in the workplace is an entire lesson and topic within itself and includes many things. Implement the solution.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. Focusing on weaknesses is fine if we want to be in the business of adequacy; to get into the excellence business we need to uncover, for each person, their moments of weird brilliance, and amplify those.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. Focusing on weaknesses is fine if we want to be in the business of adequacy; to get into the excellence business we need to uncover, for each person, their moments of weird brilliance, and amplify those.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 2020

Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. Focusing on weaknesses is fine if we want to be in the business of adequacy; to get into the excellence business we need to uncover, for each person, their moments of weird brilliance, and amplify those.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. Focusing on weaknesses is fine if we want to be in the business of adequacy; to get into the excellence business we need to uncover, for each person, their moments of weird brilliance, and amplify those.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Formally, your mind begins organizing, “Study for this long on these dates, write paper one at this time and on this date, and so on and so on.” The best training programs take this lesson into consideration in the formalization of the learning and development program. This may seem entirely second nature.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

And to tell a story that is interesting or compelling to someone else is to know what stories are already in their brains. These are the questions you should keep in the back of your mind when crafting your story from scratch—especially if it’s an original, untold story. That’s where we, as nonprofit storytellers, need to begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. It reminds of the “Mindful Conversation” exercise described in “ Search Inside Yourself ,” yet another way to practice mindfulness but not just within yourself, but with others. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding. Flexibility. Co-Creating.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. Some Internet People strike the flint every time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it. Focusing on weaknesses is fine if we want to be in the business of adequacy; to get into the excellence business we need to uncover, for each person, their moments of weird brilliance, and amplify those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." at an amazing pace, and some of their experiences can serve as valuable lessons for what we may want to develop as well. I opted for the wiki-presentation method.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Ten Years of Mistakes and Lessons Learned - The Greatest Hits Speaker: Jeff Coburn, Web Services Manager, Institute for Community Inclusion. How to Be a Mindful Techie Speaker Speaker: Meico Whitlock, Senior Manager, Communications, NASTAD. Take a deep breath and come into the present moment to learn how to become a mindful techie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind. To get it ‘right’ is another thing - but there are lessons learned from Twestival that can carry over to even the smallest of causes. . Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. One of the many lessons that 2020 taught us is that the way society at large operates can change on a dime. Complicated Accreditation Reporting.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My strategy is: make it work really well, research what works and doesn't, and share the design lessons with the world. I draw design lessons from outside models all the time, so "creative thievery" approach feels natural to me. Maybe not. Which has more impact on your actual daily practice? I was somewhat surprised by this.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

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? But our strategic planning process doesn’t have a way to make adjustments quickly as we learn lessons from implementing our plans. . It’s hard.” Long-term goals I’m seeing.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s the first lesson of Fundraising 101: fundraising is not about begging. . It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Start writing words and phrases that come to mind. That was me. But let that sink in.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? And so one of the things that has been such a big lesson, and an aha, and also a gift is when I started putting people first and then getting to the goal once I understood how to get my folks motivated, activated, interested, and owning the work that they did, like the sky opened up.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. One of the resources she shared is a book called Brain Rules , which presents studies about the power of "cognitive force environment"--the idea that we need to be able to actually change an environment to learn from it.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Beth Kanter provides simple, yet super helpful advice on how your organization can keep track of aha moments, lessons, ideas, mistakes and experiences during events. If you’re a fan of the trilogy, you’ll understand: 5 Important Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn From The Hunger Games. Tell stories. Evoke emotion.

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