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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Unplanned change – responding to the unexpected.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority. Tech training that actually works Let’s face it, a lot of technology training is garbage.

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Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Staffing Recommendations

Cloud 4 Good

Just like any technology, realizing success on the Salesforce platform takes careful maintenance, dedication to change management, and intentional roadmap planning. You can use the competency model to determine gaps between your staffing and your staffing needs which will help you develop your training and enablement plan. .

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

Create a Policies and Procedures Manual Once a new employee joins your team, having a comprehensive document outlining standard procedures for data entry will make that transition much easier on both the individual and the staff members training them. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual.

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6 Ways to Harness Your CRM Solution as a Change Management Tool

Connection Cafe

Enabling CRM users to make changes, run queries, and find the information they need by themselves, saves time, and avoids information bottlenecks. Make sure they get proper training and support so that they’re confident entering data and making changes. With knowledge and access comes challenges to the status quo.

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Navigating Nonprofit Data Warehouses: A Comprehensive Guide

DNL OmniMedia

To succeed, you’ll need time, knowledge, and a proper technology infrastructure on your side. Change management issues: Anytime a new technology tool is introduced to your organization, you’ll face some growing pains and adoption challenges.

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Five tips for software systems training

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

My good friend Adriano Pianesi , the former trainer at Members Only Software, has taken the bull by the horns and announced the creation of his own training consultancy, Participaction. Eventually, we found that traditional classroom training was rarely the solution. So the training needs to be a collaboration.