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Change Management: 3 Steps to Make Change a Reality at Your Nonprofit

Saleforce Nonprofit

As a nonprofit leader guiding your staff through changes over the last two years, you might have investigated change management. Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change. A “Why” Statement.

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How to Write Job Descriptions for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

They also help to clarify where a role fits into the collective organization. However, it can be challenging to write an adequate job description without experience in the role for which you are creating the description (“JD”), and you might not know where to start. What is the Purpose of the Role? Why is the role necessary?

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models? Sometimes the user/manager and executive are the same person. Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example.

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Why is real teamwork so rare?

ASU Lodestar Center

Assembly line concepts are so ingrained in our society that they find their way into management theory as well. We assign roles, divide the work and get started. The problem is that with the quickly changing landscape of today’s challenges the assembly line concept is not agile enough to adapt to those changes.

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WeAreMedia Webinar on September 23rd: Choose Your Own Adventure

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and determining the plot arc by deciding which page to turn to. Explore the organizational change management issues that social media raises and how to talk about them. Final Q&A: 40 minutes. The Breakout Tracks.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. One-day or half-workshops are only one touch point.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

Many managers rely on face-to-face communications and observations of their employees to get clues about performance, productivity, etc. Management by walking around is a proven and effective technique, but it relies on employees being physically located together with the manager. This simply won't work for WFH 2.0.

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