Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Today, the following expert business and leadership book authors shared their advice for how to effectively lead during 2021. My question to them was: What is your advice for leaders as we enter what is surely to be a challenging 2021 for most businesses? We will continue to need this response from leaders in 2021.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

When our lives shifted around social distancing rules, our appreciation for the environment bloomed. Clean Energy Leadership Institute. Organization Mission: I Love A Clean San Diego County leads and inspires the community to conserve and enhance the environment. Kick Start Your Movement With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If this sounds like your organization, you’re likely struggling with employee engagement. Leadership style. Businesses and nonprofits that invest in their employees’ professional development tend to increase their effectiveness and loyalty. In fact, Highly engaged business units achieve a 43% difference in turnover.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

And yet within this environment nonprofit employee satisfaction soared. When inflation and the cost of living ramped up after 2020, paychecks did not stretch as far as they would have otherwise in a lower or moderate inflation environment, causing increased dissatisfaction. Stress soared.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

This was a teachable environment relying on flexibility, trust and the professional qualities needed during changing times. Steve Blakeslee, Nonprofit Leadership and Management Major “When discussing the Alliance Management Institute it reminded me of the people who helped provide me with this opportunity. All I can say is thank you!"

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

We often hear that nonprofits should model themselves more like businesses. Be sure your assessment addresses the external environment. How visible and positive is the perception of your nonprofit’s leadership? How is the local economy fairing? Have any major employers moved in or out of your community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

They hope to improve both the environmental impact of business (improve operations) and the business impact of the environment (improve products). The network grows out of their ground-breaking work in partnering with businesses. Leadership and culture are important. We don't want to hurt our partners.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

Rather than driving to your event after a long day of work or during a busy weekend, supporters can simply attend right from the comfort of their homes. . Since your supporters will be participating remotely, it’s easy for people to get distracted in their own environments and lose interest in your event. Add gamification tools.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

As an business executive, he found the perfect environment to apply these skills. If you only have a team that looks and sounds like you, you are only looking to validate your own perspective. As a basketball player, Michael learned teamwork, courage, adaptability, and much more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Within the arena of startup incubators, however, Benetech’s social enterprise business model and Benetech Labs’ approach are unique. The scaling up of the companies happens outside the incubator, which is busy recruiting and incubating a fresh crop of new entrepreneurs. Let me explain how this is so.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s very important that your volunteers know that you’re happy they’re taking time out of their busy schedules to help your organization achieve its mission. Feeling comfortable in a new environment is important! Introduce them to your leadership. Treat your volunteers like VIPs! Get them physically oriented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Being data-driven sounds great—in theory. Data-informed describes agile, responsive, and intelligent businesses that are better able to succeed in a rapidly changing environment. The concept of being data-informed resonates with nonprofit and public sector practitioners as well.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Today, we’re going to talk about the three major categories your association — and really any business — can optimize to make a kick-ass workplace. Is that interaction encouraged to be a free and open dialogue, or are employees' voices knowingly drawn to a hush as leadership walks past? Local businesses became national.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 14, 2017

The main purpose is to raise and address the issues and challenges facing African-Americans, including employment, health care, small business and housing. There are opportunities for networking, as well as sessions on how to create an innovative work environment and recruiting best practices. Nonprofit HRCon. Date: Aug.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

posted by Rudy Frank Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Global 2000 businesses have recognized gamification as a powerful tool to engage consumers and motivate them to purchase more products. Target Audience. Player Goals. Engagement Model. Play Space and Journey. Game Economy.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 6, 2014

And how would we run our businesses? What I am talking about is simplifying the IT environment. One of my biggest business frustrations was keeping our server running and our email live. It sounds expensive to pay someone else to run your organization’s email, but, if you are a nonprofit, this service is free.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

Meanwhile, we were concerned about the huge leadership transition coming, as baby boomers, in the top positions at so many nonprofits, were heading into retirement years. And there was much talk about nonprofits running themselves more like businesses. Nothing is more important than leadership. The stakes seem higher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Social media thought leader Charlene Li has published another book titled “ The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation ” that provides organizational and business leaders with the skills and path to habit change they need to lead in a connected world. This means sharing stories and visuals.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Today, we’re going to talk about the three major categories your association — and really any business — can optimize to make a kick-ass workplace. Is that interaction encouraged to be a free and open dialogue, or are employees' voices knowingly drawn to a hush as leadership walks past? Local businesses became national.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Relationships that had been tenuous in the office became untenable in the remote environment. Trust frayed on both the leadership and the employee sides of the equation. Of these five characteristics, empathy is arguably the most valuable business asset. However, like that puppy, EI is not a one-and-done sort of activity.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

Here's the challenge: most nonprofits are not racially and ethnically diverse, especially at the highest levels of leadership. The study, like others , found that "nonprofit sector leadership lags population diversity." Articulating your business goals will make it easier to keep your "eye on the prize" when times get rough.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2012

After 12+ years, not only does he leave an indelible mark on the Convio business, he has truly helped shaped the nonprofit tech sector in a manner few others can match. In 2003 he had brought Convio to $5M and 50 people in less than an ideal economic environment. And now I need to add Vinay Bhagat to my list. He is a true visionary.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Being busy or even spending volumes of time on something aren’t equivalent to doing something well. Q: Would you share some resources about the business costs of lack of self-care? And note that budgeting for self-care may be a financially sound decision , as stress can cause people to make poor financial choices.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

An optimal default is a small tweak to your environment that makes change automatic. Question : Traveling for business often derails a person''s healthy eating habits, exercise routine, and sleep routine. What''s the best advice to make business travel as least disruptive? Let’s say you’re trying to eat less food.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 15, 2017

When I returned to fitness, I also became passionate about the importance of leaders creating an environment for health and wellness in the workplace. Question: What are some of the best ways a leader in a business can create a culture of health and wellness within his/her workplace? I was fit early in my life. And now, back fit again.

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fusionSpan

JULY 5, 2023

It’s literally gone from “maybe we should add passwords to our website” to “a significant business risk” in what seems like the blink of an eye. I know, that sounds a bit harsh, right? I’d highly recommend ensuring they have changed every single default account password that could be in your environment.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 11, 2022

This leadership role will be to manage a team and enterprise-level clients, along with developing run-team methodology and contribute to pre-sales and sales support for potential clients. to monitor project performance, serve as an escalation point, and ensure quality delivery) and/or a Project Manager/Business Analyst (i.e.,

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

The unfortunate truth is that Americans are constantly inundated with productivity pressure —productivity in the workplace, productivity at home, productivity while maintaining a healthy work-life balance, productivity in a remote work environment, productivity when returning to an office. the list goes on. Concise wins here.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The objectives of the Cloud for Good Principal Consultant are to provide excellent service and value to clients through Salesforce implementation projects as a senior functional resource, and to create a learning pathway for consultants to gain managerial and leadership skills. Serve as an expert in CFG methodology and business process? .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So first for me in fundraising and now probably even more so actually in my business as an entrepreneur. Let me know if any of these sound familiar. We saw leadership saying, “It’s inappropriate to fundraise during a pandemic. So how familiar do these ones sound? I know a lot of you aren’t.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 24, 2022

create a learning pathway for consultants to gain solution design and project leadership skills. Assess client business requirements to design architecturally-sound solutions? Serve as an expert in Cloud for Good methodology and business process? Strong, proactive leadership skills? Self-starter?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So first for me in fundraising and now probably even more so actually in my business as an entrepreneur. Let me know if any of these sound familiar. We saw leadership saying, “It’s inappropriate to fundraise during a pandemic. So how familiar do these ones sound? I know a lot of you aren’t.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Every business, whether it be for-profit or nonprofit business, is usually created for purpose. That purpose might be to grow financial well for a for-profit business. We’re so busy doing the work that we forget to stop, track what we’re doing, and share it with others so that they can engage in the organization.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2017

Once your target audience is established make sure that leadership, staff and volunteers spread-the-word. Entertainment/Lighting/Sound. Create a Unique Atmosphere: Allow your guests to be amazed while creating a fun environment. 7:00 am Sound assembled. Bar Service. Incidentals. Day 1 (Two days prior to event) .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's a youth entrepreneurship and agriculture training for young people, trying to build their capacity as leaders in the community, with a specific focus on being entrepreneurs, using business as a solution both to their economic need, locally, but for their social needs as well. We're finding success. But we wanted to do it.

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

For instance, their Beacon of Light program allows participating businesses and schools to sell paper lighthouses for donations of $1, $5, or more, and hang the sold lighthouses to create a visual display of the money they have raised. To fund their innovative treatment programs, their website features several creative fundraising campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2008

Sounds reasonable on the surface, right? Chaos on an institutional scale is unsettling whether it derives from a lack of leadership or aggressively visionary leadership. by providing them a safe environment in which to do so. But it's troubling for two reasons. Museum management needs to do the same.

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