Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

All of which will drive a clash of cultures that demands a new management approach. Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Train your managers on the value of appreciation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 3, 2020

Whether it be packing food boxes, mentoring youth, or assisting with general office work, volunteers contribute valuable time and energy to help organizations succeed. Creating this culture starts with sharing the rationale for the use of volunteers with employees to gain staff buy-in. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

All of which will drive a clash of cultures that demands a new management approach. Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Train your managers on the value of appreciation.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Organizational culture. Recruiting and onboarding new employees is far more costly than retaining existing trained employees. Before we go over how to implement new strategies to engage employees, let’s discuss the challenges many businesses and nonprofits face when it comes to employee engagement, such as: Insufficient training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! Trained mentors who can support on the job learning. Agreed upon plan. Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Emerging Leaders Need More than Leadership Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Dan was the sole anonymous donor for the program, which brushed off my indignity and furnished me with a new laptop, a mentor, and monthly checks for books, food and travel. Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). Design and Plan Training: To build an effective training, you need to do some assessment of the current skills, knowledge, and comfort level of employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported. Training on Solution Developer Kit (SDK) and Application Programming Interface (API)? Do you want to start (or persist) a culture of customization?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Because a couple of things, I do a lot of these trainings throughout the year and two thoughts I have before we start. We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. So I give kudos to you for coming to this training today, that’s an important step, and then to actually implement it, right?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. What could you do and I want you to write in the chat and it’d be great if Steve you could help me kind of facilitate some of this. Plus, it’s super competitive.

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