sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

A growth and learning mindset is not about skills and competencies. Some of the tools you and your team have might be a little dull, some might be rusty, and some may not apply to this work at all, Satonya said on the webinar. Sometimes to pick up new tools, you have to put some down. It’s not about what you do.

Adopt 88

Adopt Learning Organization Help 88

sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

You cut your teeth on accounts payable and have managed more than your fair share of audits. You want to use your accounting skills for an organization that makes a difference. You can run a profit and loss statement in your sleep. But you are tired of the for-profit world. Congratulations!

Profit 98

Profit Fund Grant Track 98

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively. Change management: What is it?

Change Management 52

Change Management Change Management Nonprofit 52

Forum One

JULY 27, 2021

Your digital ecosystem comprises the tools, people, and processes within your organization. Digital tools and systems often touch different teams and departments and can require investments that need to be discussed at a higher level. Developing a change management plan ensures you’re never reliant on one person to do certain jobs. .

Digital 47

Digital Tips Fundraising Evaluation 47

Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

General Considerations in CMS Selection Given the mature CMS market, most tools are equipped to address client needs. Doing this ensures your selected CMS offers tools that align with your online objectives. However, they might come with higher costs and require specialized skills for maintenance and development.

Open Source 52

Open Source License Drupal Platform 52

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But you do have good critical thinking skills, and by getting answers to a few specific questions from your current or potential fund accounting vendor, you can better understand if their system will help your organization grow—or hold you back. And you would feel confident that you made the best choice for your nonprofit organization.

Fund 88

Fund Question System Integration 88

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s designed to consolidate and integrate data from various sources, including CRM systems, fundraising software, financial databases, program management tools, and more. Change management issues: Anytime a new technology tool is introduced to your organization, you’ll face some growing pains and adoption challenges.

Data 52

Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

Care2

JULY 7, 2011

Change management used to be a specialized skill that belonged to experts whom we would employ during those periodic bouts of transition. Today change management is nothing less than a survival skill each of us needs to possess to survive. Most organizations have historically sucked at change.

Change Management 73

Change Management Skills Global Change 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Traynor's piece is a reflection on how network leadership is different from more traditional leadership skills for leading organizations. Armed only with the perspectives and skills honed in traditional settings, one who tries to lead in a network environment can find the task unsettling and disorienting.

Social Media 95

Social Media Adopt Share Media 95

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

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. Management philosophy for today. Work requirements often changed before the team could even complete the work. We assign roles, divide the work and get started.

Structure 97

Structure Leadership Team Phase 97

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. Reflection: Reflection doesn't have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

Content 62

Content Exercise Technique Journal 62

NTEN

JULY 19, 2011

Ironically, months after their criticism, a wide range of digital tools played a small part in the 'Arab Spring' protests. So which is it: ineffective tool or tools that can topple governments? But they often let the tools define what is possible rather than make possible what is necessary. The reality is neither.

Journal 82

Journal Sound Digital Campaign 82

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Register now!

Research 65

Research San Francisco Montana Homeless 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. It is obvious that our skills directly translate into establishing an online presence.

Ning 92

Ning Community Social Media Culture 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? We wanted to give everyone a chance to get more familiar with the tools, and, more importantly, understand how social media is relevant to their goals. What did we do?

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Remix Social 94

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Register now!

Research 61

Research San Francisco Montana Homeless 61

NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

To address these demands, we need better measurement tools to determine which approaches work and which do not. Furthermore, without the right skills or the right leadersihp for analyzing and applying the data, it's very likely organizations can make bad decisions based on erroneous or incomplete data.

Measure 96

Measure Ethiopia Nigeria Analysis 96

sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. In fact, we have seen a drastic rise in tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The popularity of these tools is not surprising.

Education 96

Education Technology University Blended 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

It covers different models for purpose, structure, style, value creation, design, leadership, and change management. There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration. Skills for Net Work by Patti Anklam. Collaboration. Communications.

Social Media 50

Social Media Network Media Social 50

NTEN

APRIL 22, 2011

As a manager, you are your own best retention and job satisfaction tool. The number one reason people leave companies is because their relationship with their manager is poor. Block off time to do “Management by Walking Around” (MBWA) on your schedule and listen to your employees talk to you about what is important to them.

Environment 63

Environment Tips Create Journal 63

NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Everyone brings something unique to the table, whether it's content, tech skills or social media know-how. Since not all of the team works out of the Center, the phone calls are also an extremely important tool for keeping the team intact. The knowledge doesn't just reside with one person."

Social Media 96

Social Media Collaboration Org Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

As we discovered last week from looking at movement building , relationship building skills are really important. Tags: change management guest blogging relationships. For nonprofits, that means moving from the transactional to the constant relationships.

Social Media 85

Social Media Life Media Social 85

NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The same holds true for lawyers, investment bankers, firemen, and doctors; their skills are not needed in day-to-day operations at the management level of a nonprofit. They identify the right tools for the job are and balance the cost with potential benefits. Efficiency. Tech people are trained to automate processes.

Leadership 94

Leadership Tech Lecture Org 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

This slide show from Stephen Collins make me think about teaching Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits that I used teach over dozen or so years ago. " He talking about building shared language and understanding in order to successfully introduce a change (adoption of social media principles and tools) in an organization.

Adopt 50

Adopt Social Media Twitter Media 50

NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

Case Study 69

Case Study Culture National Network 69

sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2023

It was clear from the conversation that managing change requires more than new hardware and software. In order to best serve the needs of your organization, nonprofit financial leaders must think through how they can empower intentional change management in their people and processes as well as technology.

Technology 83

Technology Change Management Nonprofit Law 83

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

Now that you know how to place the right people in the right positions based on their skills to succeed, it is also important to ensure that you have implemented a governance model. Change Management: Managing the change within the project lifecycle or overall organization. Defining the “Rules of Engagement”.

Org 115

Org Government Support University 115

NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As When we started, we were creating an internal tool for project management and quality assurance. We don’t fly expat plumbers around the world.

International 60

International Project Org Technology 60

NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

Roles 65

Roles Project Process Management 65

sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2023

It was clear from the conversation that managing change requires more than new hardware and software. In order to best serve the needs of your organization, nonprofit financial leaders must think through how they can empower intentional change management in their people and processes as well as technology.

Technology 52

Technology Change Management Law Nonprofit 52

Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Customization simply in order to preserve business processes without a greater outcome is a recipe for disaster (as is implementing software without changes to business practices). Evaluate your team: Do you have the right skills sets and capacity in house? What about development environments and tools? Development approach.

Build 32

Build API Evaluation Exercise 32

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. And we can broaden the conversation to talk about having lots of tools to get there. So how do you do that? That's teaching. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be.

Game 60

Game Education Change Classroom 60

sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As the sector seeks to minimize the burden on staff and grantees, the challenge for those in knowledge work is to be more conscious and reflective in designing grant questions that will most energize and strengthen the paths toward positive change. Becoming skilled in using questions requires a more nuanced way to understand their nature.

Question 99

Question Change Grant History 99

sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

Technology Savvy Proficiency with accounting software, financial analytics tools, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is increasingly important for streamlining financial processes, data analysis, and reporting. Interview Question: Explain how you handle revenue recognition for multi-year restricted grants.

Challenge 75

Challenge Organization Interview Roles 75

Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 4, 2022

Consultants should be able to quickly resolve urgent issues while proactively working with clients to encourage tool adoption and utilization. Digital Managed Services Consultants will have strong project management skills and the ability to juggle a number of priorities at once.

Canada 45

Canada Consultant Service Digital 45

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Fully Leverage Your Partners You are likely paying for insights, skills, capabilities, and upgrades from external partners that you never use because you’re too busy or just don’t know how to apply it to your work. Understand the scope of services provided and use them. “But

Nonprofit 98

Nonprofit Adopt Chart Press 98

Neon CRM

JULY 12, 2023

They can also search hundreds of articles in our help desk and get step-by-step instructions on how to use their tools. Change Management is Always Hard Alex: Okay, here’s my final question: We all know that change management is hard. And that’s all outside the normal support options they can use.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit System Process Consultant 52