Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work. Passing the CFRE exam demonstrates you’ve done the work necessary and have the skills to develop relationships with donors, increase volunteer engagement, and lead a team of skilled fundraisers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In December, I'll post my selection for the best new leadership book for 2019. Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. And, that’s why, Say What You Mean , is my pick for B est New Leadership Book for 2018. Find nourishment in day-to-day interactions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Bridgebuilding is the fresh, new approach that strengthens institutions, and government agencies by breaking free from organizational boxes and rigid, top-down leadership,” explains Eggers and Kettl. Build capabilities around skills rather than authority. Let partners play to their strengths. Be human and sincere in communication.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2021

Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt have discovered over the past 30 years that: People lose their ability to influence others and impact the organizations they work at because they are not focused on the most essential, mission-critical business and cultural priorities of the organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2019

Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 23, 2019

If you haven't yet read the book I named the Best New Leadership Book for 2018 , here's a reminder about why I think it is so good: The book, Say What You Mean , by Oren Jay Sofer , couldn’t have come at a better time. Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. How can I take care of myself while supporting others? How can I manage the core business while innovating for the future? then the new book, Both/And Thinking , by authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis , is for you.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. It didn’t take long). That wasn’t fair.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Being stuck in chronic performance can have a devastating impact on your skills, confidence, job, and personal life. No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Through practical exercises, stories, illustrative case studies, chapter-by-chapter reflection questions and action items, you’ll learn how to harness the real and raw power of your mind to build solid workplace relationships for virtually any situation. True collaboration is about creating something new and together.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Dilenschneider Question: How did you select the contributing practitioners/topics/chapters to include in the book? The Public Relations Handbook is the book – the fifth edition of the version that premiered in 1967. This new installment, edited by Robert L.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Each of the 10 entrepreneurs pass through the same seven essential stages for an entrepreneur , uncovered within the book’s seven chapters: The Awakening – curiosity and discovery. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 13, 2011

When pride builds, so does confidence. With confidence comes the desire to do even better.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Each of the 10 entrepreneurs pass through the same seven essential stages for an entrepreneur , uncovered within the book’s seven chapters: The Awakening – curiosity and discovery. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Remember that a simple and small change, implemented the right away, can be more effective than a complex rewiring of a skill. Coaching during a game/exercise can be helpful, but teaching during a game/exercise is distracting and counterproductive. Lemov''s previous book is Teach Like a Champion.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2020

If you want to create a heart culture and a people-first culture at your workplace, read the book, Advisory Leadership , by Greg Friedman. Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Each of the 10 entrepreneurs pass through the same seven essential stages for an entrepreneur , uncovered within the book’s seven chapters: The Awakening – curiosity and discovery. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 15, 2019

There is good reason why, The Leadership Challenge , book is now in it’s sixth addition. It expertly teaches you what to do as a leader to mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done in your organization. Posner , call these The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership. The authors, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do. Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. . We’ve written this guide on professional development programs to help nonprofit executives like you empower employees to develop skills and hone their craft.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Why, then, has so little progress been made, especially when it comes to corporate leadership? Is it a lack of progress demotivating people or is it a lack of transparency and accountability by leadership? For example, if you're a tech company, your employees might teach tech skills to underserved youth in low-income communities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 13, 2012

You'll appreciate the Key Points summaries and the Things To Do suggestions from the authors at the end of each of the nine chapters in the book. Organizational culture is revealed in artifacts and symbols , the stories people tell, relationships, and the rituals and rules that guide behavior.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But typically, the job someone had at the end of 2019 or the person doing it will have changed just enough that with some education and training in new skills, the organization and the person can thrive. Step 3: Make a training plan. But effective training can’t be random or simply function as a reward for a job well done.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. Leadership Books Leadership Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management General Management Skills Susan H. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Remember that a simple and small change, implemented the right away, can be more effective than a complex rewiring of a skill. Coaching during a game/exercise can be helpful, but teaching during a game/exercise is distracting and counterproductive. Lemov's previous book is Teach Like a Champion.

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

In our interview, Dr. Hicken and I prompted Dr. Turco to discuss editorial decisions and specific chapters she felt deserved special call out for the readers of this blog. Mary Turco envisions instructors assigning chapters in a curriculum for training CPD professionals. Chapter 4, by Ginny Jacobs-Halsey and David A.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2016

The techniques Quinn teaches small home-based business owners also apply to work-from-home employees of large organizations. Poor organizational and time management skills are among the top ten reasons small businesses and work-from-home employees fail ," said Quinn.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. It didn’t take long). That wasn’t fair.

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Storytelling Chapter Story Teach 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The techniques Quinn teaches small home-based business owners also apply to work-from-home employees of large organizations. Poor organizational and time management skills are among the top ten reasons small businesses and work-from-home employees fail ," said Quinn.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 8, 2011

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Not to mention one in which the skills set must be honed and finely tuned. Encourage the employee to spend a few days doing information "downloads" from fellow staff members or if it’s a smaller nonprofit, from key volunteer leadership. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Like this article?

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