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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. To provide specific guidance, I attended the board meeting and presented an evaluation along with recommendations for how the group could lead more effectively.”.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

.orgSource

Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

Association Analytics

While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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4 Necessary Culture Shifts To Help You Navigate Change Management

Bloomerang

Signals any needs to make future adjustments during planning phases. Here’s some examples: The ability to scrap a new design and start over when it’s obvious that it doesn’t meet an objective. Training as demonstration without evaluation is only an overview. Provides a sense of ownership in making the change work.

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Launching a successful nonprofit communications campaign

Candid

Here we also share the key components of each phase and best practices for streamlining your efforts. Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. To set your next campaign up for success, we are breaking up the process of building a campaign into five simple steps.

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The enduring value of lessons learned

Candid

Issue Lab is where Candid collects, preserves, and shares research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more, published and/or funded by social sector organizations. The content in Issue Lab is designed to help social sector professionals with common, daily tasks.

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