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

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Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

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Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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

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Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time!

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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Content Delivery Is Not Learning. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

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The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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