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4 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Needs A Holistic Operations Consultant

Bloomerang

Some have years of experience and are leading with the knowledge and resourcefulness they have acquired over time. Nine out of ten times a senior leader can quickly engage in a full conversation with these simple prompts. A hired vendor can very easily change your accounting software from QuickBooks to Intacct.

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Rapid Realignment Teaches Leaders How To Adapt And Stay Focused

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Spend some quality time with the new book, Rapid Realignment , and you'll learn how to ensure that your strategy, customers, processes and people work seamlessly together in the service of customers and that those four elements continually realign in the face of constant change. The authors, Dr. George H.

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An Action Plan For Embracing Change And Adapting Fast

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The four phases of change are: Panic Adapt New Normal Wouldn’t Go Back – When we gain something so new and great that we wouldn’t want to go back to a time before we had it. Change is coming. Therefore, Feifer teaches that: When in the Panic phase of change , pause when other panic. It cannot be stopped!

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Nonprofit Cloud Dreamforce Keynote: Deliver Unique Experiences to Drive Impact

Saleforce Nonprofit

A long time Salesforce customer, they made the switch from a legacy system and used Salesforce to build the Justice Data Solution. A recent McKinsey report shared that only 30% of technology initiatives produce value to the business, which means investing in change management as an organization is key.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. If you teach people to operate software, have them follow along on their computer instead of just watching the trainer perform the task. And when all else fails, bribe people with food.

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Change-friendly Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Rodger Dean Duncan delivers so much timely, straight-forward and relevant wisdom in his book, Change-friendly Leadership , reading it is like talking with your trusted best friend. That''s why you''ll want to spend plenty of time reading the book. Change Management Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Managing Change'

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Strategies for Powering Learning Through CRM Go-Live and Beyond

Connection Cafe

For all of us who don’t live in a world where this type of change is enthusiastically accepted , we know that it can be challenging , especially when it comes to thinking about training and getting folks to actually USE the system. You eat it one bite at a time. This is one time you won’t be considered a broken record.