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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. So, what did these resilient role models have in common? I wanted to understand one big question – why do some people get burned out and others do not?

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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

By using data about each loan, including daily popularity, the Kiva team worked with DataRobot to build dozens of models to identify relationships in the data. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

By Olga Moshinsky Woltman “The growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.” – Carol Dweck It is a truth universally acknowledged that employees who are motivated to continuously learn and grow will be the ones to take on new challenges, innovate, and problem-solve.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. You can also apply brain theory to designing and facilitating meetings at work.

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Higher Education Content Strategy 101: The Fundamentals

Connection Cafe

Working in marketing at a university is one of the hardest jobs in the world. That means your university is competing with many other higher education institutions across the nation that are all catering to your potential students. There are a few accepted models for content strategy. requires a solid content strategy.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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How to Wow in 4 Easy Steps: A Mash-up

Tech Soup

Identify a hero in your story and have your hero model the behavior you want your viewers to follow. Keep the length of your video at two minutes or less because science suggests our brains don't focus for much longer than that. Why Telling a Story Is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains. Have a Hero. Spoiler alert!*

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