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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations.

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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

I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.” ” When you use automated excel or survey monkey charts, it encourages you to skip that important step.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes several iterations of your survey to develop one that works, but you really gain a good understanding of the level of your audience. Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques. Be mindful not to put the concept of overworking on a pedestal.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . So, Steven, this is where I’d like for you to actually turn this slide into a survey. Here we go. There it is. .

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. She asked 121 students to fill out a short survey in exchange for five dollars.

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How to Improve Your Website’s Emotional Appeals: 5 Tips

Pamela Grow

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists.

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