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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

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Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

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But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Why Your Donation Payment Process Reflects Your Brand

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As an organization, you must reflect the value of transparency in every decision you make. Having a transparent, user-friendly nonprofit payment processor reflects well on your nonprofit brands. Each step of the donation process should reflect authenticity to your donors to establish rapport. Millennial donors. Refer to this.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Creating that buy-in will depend on the board’s confidence in the CEO’s judgment and ability. Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. Sometimes an outside facilitator can move members forward more quickly. Get the Board on Board There will always be one or two naysayers.

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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List. also use it as a reflection as the year progresses. Here they are: Rituals.