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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

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Well, two years on, I can safely say that our virtual training classes are here to stay. Even our premier training— Proposal Writing Boot Camp —is now fully virtual, with a self-paced component and two hours of face-to-face engagement for three weeks. Is this you? . People appreciate not having to leave their houses to attend.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Incorporate These Three Learning Styles When Teaching Employees Something New

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Your employees have different learning styles – typically falling within these three categories: Visual Learners Auditory Learners Tactile Learners Therefore, it’s best to incorporate all three styles when teaching something new, according to the book, Customer Service Management Training 101. On-the-job training works best for them.

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Staff and Volunteer Training Tips

ASU Lodestar Center

Kate Elliott, Training Administrator, Planned Parenthood Arizona. Providing formal training to staff and volunteers has obvious benefits for an organization, individual staff members and volunteers. For staff members and volunteers, training is a means of professional development many are eager to receive.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Participants To Apply. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. So, you have to design for that.

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Benefits of a Skill-Centric Learning Management System (LMS)

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In the 10/23/15 blog I mentioned, “Skills allow people to succeed at their job, not training.” As an example, a wannabe rocket scientist could take many rocket science classes, however until they build a rocket and put it into orbit, they don’t have rocket science skills.