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Icebreakers for Online Meetings That Introverts Will Love

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One design important instructional principle for trainings and meetings, whether online or face-to-face, is to start off with a fun way to ease into the work. Bear in mind that some people, especially introverts, hate them so you have to design them so they are less awkward. Can this technique work for an online meeting?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address.

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

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A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Designing Zoom Breakout Room Activities . There are many different techniques for brainstorming that can easily be adapted to a virtual meeting.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

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As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

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Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. Speaking of documentation, that’s where digital tools can come in handy – for example your mobile phone camera. Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper???

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

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The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 2c: Card Sorts

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Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. Visual Design. Solution Design.

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