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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

.orgSource

These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. They also need to find the time and opportunities for these conversations to occur.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

.orgSource

What are the lessons learned? Following are a few of my observations on the indelible takeaways and lessons learned about remote work. We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. Intentional communicators bring a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to the conversation. We nailed it!

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Recap: Nonprofits & AI – A Conversation with Devi Thomas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies. If you want to continue learning about AI for nonprofits, register for the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit , using the code VIRTUAL. Create small low risk experiments to answer the question: does this use case make sense for our organization?

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

.orgSource

I learned these disturbing, but important, statistics from Allison K. Our discussion about the Summit Award launched a wide-ranging conversation. When you have the resources, you can join organizations like.orgCommunity to meet and learn from other professionals. “In Asking questions is another great way to make connections.

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How To Become A Conversational Superstar

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Communication Code book helps you set up conversations and communication in a way that creates a win-win scenario for everyone involved. More specifically explain the authors, you will learn how to explicitly prompt someone to respond in a productive and meaningful way, fostering successful and fruitful interactions.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

sgEngage

Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions. Take it out.

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

Get Fully Funded

And the best way to get to know your major donors is to ask good questions that spark conversation. I would love to learn how you became interested in XYZ cause. Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else.