Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Hans-Werner Kaas Today, co-author Hans-Werner Kaas shares these insights with us: Question: Which part (Part 1 - It Starts With You) or (Part 2 - Moving Beyond Yourself) do most leaders find the most challenging to master? The added challenge for CEOs is that so-called “soft skills” are not always valued or encouraged in leaders.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve planned a day of exploration and discovery that will return you to the office with solutions to tough challenges. Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association, will share how APA used these techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. But answers aren’t enough anymore.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

The questions we hear often are about how organizations can identify and adapt designs to meet the evolving needs of their audiences and ensure that the mission resonates deeply. I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Candid

AUGUST 21, 2024

On LinkedIn , we use trivia questions and carousels to engage audiences about nonprofit sector data. Try to emulate similar techniques. Social media platforms offer a range of tools to help engage viewers, such as polls, quizzes, question boxes, or links. It’s short bursts of educational content, usually under one minute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. If you have more than 10 people in a meeting, having everyone introduce themselves verbally and answer an icebreaker question can take up a lot of time and can be tedious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

2 Strategies for Overcoming Common Fundraising Challenges All Nonprofits Face [Infographic] – Guest Post by Frank Barry. Good planning always takes into account risks or challenges that could prevent you from reaching your goals as well as strategies to overcome those risks. What challenges do nonprofits face?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

They are two of the most populous generations on earth, and they’re going to have to navigate a work world full of unprecedented challenges,” explains Mark Zides , author of the book, The #PACE Process For Early Career Success. His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

They are two of the most populous generations on earth, and they’re going to have to navigate a work world full of unprecedented challenges,” explains Mark Zides , author of the book, The #PACE Process For Early Career Success. His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Dennis Schatz from the Pacific Science Center contributed: How do we find the RIGHT questions for visitor participation? I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

However, these days so many of my meetings take place online, typically on Zoom, and interactivity can be a challenge. You have a couple of provocative questions related to the topic you will be discussing or training on and have people line up as to whether they agree or disagree. Can this technique work for an online meeting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Dennis Schatz from the Pacific Science Center contributed: How do we find the RIGHT questions for visitor participation? I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. ” questions.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

If this resonates with you, join us for this session which confirms the biggest challenges, but also explores some pretty great opportunities and success stories. We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Information is everything that is coming at us. However, to have data requires intention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. 2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2024

Speaking about the book, Hunter Arscott states that it will equip you with the tools to navigate the workplace strategically and successfully, despite challenges and setbacks. Question: How can women best support and advocate for other women? Hunter Arscott : The first thing women can stop doing is focusing on achieving “balance.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

They didn’t shy away from challenges; they offered stakeholders meaningful ways to engage with the swiftly evolving issues of the day. Ask if anyone has any questions. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. questions) that are similar and shared by many funders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! A quick focus on the solutions without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. These should include a description of the challenges faced, the approach taken, and the final solution implemented. Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

There’s nothing wrong with this kind of modeling, but the extent of its use is unclear, and the lack of clarity makes some users question the data they’re seeing. The interface already benefits from intuitive phrasing: presenting questions like “Where did my visitors come from?” GA4 helps users get quick access to a useful report.

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Forum One

APRIL 6, 2023

Here we answer some of the most common questions we are asked by our social sector partners when it comes to taking a service design approach to their work. While there’s a lot of overlap in terms of techniques, tools, and artifacts, service design has some unique ones, too, such as service blueprints.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 2, 2024

Sharing detailed reports (adding graphics is a plus), success stories, and even challenges you face make your organization relatable and real. For live streams, be personable and interact with viewers in real-time—answer their questions and acknowledge their comments to build a sense of community.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Speaking about the book, Hunter Arscott states that it will equip you with the tools to navigate the workplace strategically and successfully, despite challenges and setbacks. Question: How can women best support and advocate for other women? Hunter Arscott : The first thing women can stop doing is focusing on achieving “balance.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are two of the most populous generations on earth, and they’re going to have to navigate a work world full of unprecedented challenges,” explains Mark Zides , author of the new book, The #PACE Process For Early Career Success. His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

The chatter is everywhere, and it can be challenging for organizations, especially those that tend to have fewer technical resources on staff, to know how these new tools might help (or hinder) their work. Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Consider the following questions.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2013

In this article we are going to discuss a challenge that every researcher is confronted with when creating a survey : How to design the right question list for their questionnaire? As my fifth grade teacher used to say, “It is always hard to get the right answers when you are asking the wrong questions.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For nonprofit storytelling, conflict really refers to the challenges that need to be overcome or maybe the circumstances that perpetuate the problem. Don’t Forget to Ask This seems silly to say, but one of the largest challenges to overcome in fundraising is your mindset. Schools do not provide meals and families are very poor. .

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” and, “How can we prepare ourselves for the challenges that we will bump up against?” Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out. Your team may be thinking, “equity work is hard.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2019

This is the question all advancement and stewardship professionals should be asking. It’s unrealistic to expect front-line fundraisers to bear the brunt of this challenge alone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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