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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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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. But each slice of the pie shares a common point of origin. Sig is right.

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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. She shared a few highlights from Microsoft’s recent nonprofit sector research. Create small low risk experiments to answer the question: does this use case make sense for our organization? Below is my fully human-generated reflection.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions.

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

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Our discussion about the Summit Award launched a wide-ranging conversation. Asking questions is another great way to make connections. Allison captioned her LinkedIn photo like this, “The start of amazing begins with the right question.” Knowing your brand is critical to maintain market share.

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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. Define the parameters of a conversation from the outset to avoid any misunderstandings. Understand the power dynamics of an interaction to eliminate the fear of honest conversation.

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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

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Sharon Rice ,orgSource, Managing Director of Business Strategy, moderated this insightful conversation. Because the extent of the governor’s legal authority was questionable, the messages were mixed and confusing. We quickly pivoted to answering every question, whether callers were members or not.” “To

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

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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.