Remove Collaboration Remove Evaluation Remove Facilitation Remove Product
article thumbnail

Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Understand the Options.

Structure 251
article thumbnail

Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

.orgSource

To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. Most were CEOs leading companies that provide products and services to associations.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

article thumbnail

Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session. Basic Approaches.

article thumbnail

Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Networked Facilitation.

article thumbnail

Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

.orgSource

To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. Task them with staying abreast of new developments that improve products, services, and customer-centricity.

article thumbnail

Don’t Get Too Comfortable at the Top–AI Puts a Twist on Leadership

.orgSource

Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Identify staffers who will be ambassadors and fill these collaborative roles: Identify employees across the organization to be ambassadors. Someone smarter just blew into town. Don’t compete.