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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Tracking: This is keeping track of the conversation themes and threads. The facilitator indicates that they will summarize the discussion and names the themes in play and then invites moving the conversation onward with “any more comments?

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Designing Transformative Communications Capacity Building Programs for Nonprofits

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We asked participants to do a “think and write” and jot down one idea that resonated before facilitating a grand synthesis of what we learned about designing more impactful capacity building programs for grantees. You can read my guest post over the Communications Network Blog that summarizes these insights.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

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Here are a few ideas we would use to create relatable courses in this scenario: Scenery and visuals that reflect the organization. For example, rather than showcasing a North American hospital, it would be more valuable to share images of field hospitals in the designated location. Guest Contributor.

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FocusOn Learning 2017: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Presentations Educational

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In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer? It seems that the attendees are open to the idea of experiential, rather than didactic, methods of eLearning. It seems that people generally don’t like being talked at ; they like being part of a conversation. Let’s talk shop.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Inspire new ideas : “Can that be done in any other way?”. Mindful Listening: Master the Basics of Focused Conversation. How To Become A Virtuoso Listener: Practice, Practice, Practice.

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