Gyrus

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mad Skills – The Skill-Centric Approach. In a skill-centric program, Organizations can identify traits and aspects of successful members of their current competencies and roles, and address the precise capabilities that need to be established to excel within those positions. What do we mean when we say skill?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. The following recommendations from our research are designed to weight the scales toward exhilaration and keep disruption at bay. Look to the human skills to increase your stability and value. Give your leadership skills a twist.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our research shows that people who know how others see them are more skilled at showing empathy and taking others’ perspectives. Become an active listener by practicing these skills. Mirroring dialogue can seem like that annoying customer service tactic designed to calm unhappy campers. (“I Listen actively. Engage fully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Designing the meeting so it is effective and encourages team-building can be tricky. How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. The planners of this event offered some valuable lessons for any organization on how to design effective and engaging retreats.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

The CFRE certification is an accredited credential designed specifically for fundraising professionals. Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work. Approved webinars will have the CFRE approved designation.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A passion for the mission and good listening skills are basic qualities. But your board doesn’t need to configure a database or design a website, nor should they be encouraged to try. “Make sure that you have directors who are aligned with the mission. When people participate out of self-interest, it’s not a good fit.

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Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

Enter Candid Learning —a treasure trove of educational resources designed to empower you with top-tier fundraising expertise. Quick ways to build fundraising skills If your schedule is packed, consider intentionally setting aside a small amount of time—say, 15-20 minutes—to learn each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

As with previous research, the survey found that youth who volunteered reported gains in leadership skills (77%), career readiness (70%), and a sense of belonging (67%). The report offers five “design considerations” to ensure a youth-led and youth-driven focus, access, quality, reciprocity, and a change strategy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On December 17, TechSoup hosted a SoupChat for nonprofits and libraries looking for more information on website design and hosting. Design and Web Building forum moderator Yann Toledano led the SoupChat. The ability to impart knowledge clearly and easily was also an important requirement. " Responsive Web Design.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

When you’re putting together a plan on how to get the most out of your school’s Salesforce use, focus on ensuring that you have the right people on the team, based on their skills, that can take accountability for their essential responsibilities and then enable them to be successful. What Skills Does Your Support Staff Have?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Skilled based volunteering has been the backbone of organizational capacity building supports for over two decades. As the social sector evolves rapidly, capacity-building efforts need to catch up and keep up, including the critical resource that is skills-based volunteering. New Skills-Based Volunteering Models.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2022

Meet the design team. We are a small but mighty team of analysts and senior analysts, working closely with others at Forum One in strategy, UX, and design. Job-seekers with experience working in-house with nonprofits or in the public sector can bring additional perspectives and relevant knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery guest post by Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

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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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A degree in Information Technology with multiple concentrations allows me to put my skills and technical aptitude to good use. Coming into the association space as a developer eventually shifted into combining my technical skills with my people and business understanding and becoming an Applications Analyst and several other roles.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association. Zappos, Square Space, and the Morning Star Company are examples of larger organizations with a flat structure or holacracy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2017

If you answered yes to any (or all) of these, you are in the design doldrums. In the nonprofit and library world, it's not uncommon for staff — from management to service delivery team to volunteers — to be tasked with designing handouts, board presentations, or annual reports. Don't despair; we can help!

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

The goal is to develop short, mid, and long-range strategies with flexibility baked into the design. In the past, resilience, like culture building, may have been viewed as a “soft” skill because the qualities that are involved don’t directly impact the bottom line. But, according to Sharon, leadership is the bottom line.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

training, coaching, job aids, or other resources) designed to achieve it, while also outlining the steps to be taken, timeline, and accountability process. A performance improvement plan intends to fix problems and close knowledge and skill gaps. It may also reveal obstacles that a straightforward plan can’t remedy.

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Charity Village

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Strategic and Operational Planning Cohort Winter 2022 from the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia is an interactive and immersive strategic planning experience designed for leaders within the community impact sector!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his new book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success."

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Design Organization Facilitation Case Study 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. They’re coming to your training because they want to learn a specific skill.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Creating your unique product requires a dedicated team with the appropriate skills. Having this knowledge base available to you can be invaluable. As we mentioned earlier, the biggest advantage of building your own system is that you can custom design your product. You need to have the right talent for a technical build.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Never underestimate the value of services that are designed to ensure you’re set for success from the moment you purchase your software and beyond. Rather than compare nonprofit CRMs by the “ease of use” category alone, it’s important to analyze those particular fundraising software features that are currently causing you headache.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience. We also love the evolving design for each year’s report. Save time on design and focus on showing your impact. NPR’s 2018 Annual Report boasts a classic red, white and blue color scheme and clean design.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

They contribute their time, skills, and passion to support the cause, all without expecting anything in return. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to design a volunteer engagement program that fosters a positive experience for both your nonprofit and your volunteers. What skill sets are required for these tasks?

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. Or, individuals in a business course could complete an open-ended case study-based assessment to test how well they can apply the information presented, effectively testing skills acquired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

Meedan , an implementation partner, is responsible for designing and implementing the online learning community. Chris lead us through a simple user design process based a book by Giles Colborne. What has been your experience with user-centered design process for online communities and web sites?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

The top nonprofit websites have more than just solid design and engaging content. Or, if you’re designing your website from scratch, you’ll need a full understanding of what you want your new website to do. It’s accessible for users at all different levels and doesn’t require advanced technical knowledge to use. SEO strategy.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These three simple words each pack their own challenge for a sector that often fails to prioritize learning, where knowledge hoarding is pervasive, and where the pace of change can feel extremely slow. Beyond the grant, there are a plethora of levers that philanthropy can access.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

Setting Clear Goals Usually, the mission statement will reveal the overall goal for an organization, but are often overreaching by design, possibly broader than you need for setting data-driven goals and objectives. Metrics for outcomes should include all measures that reflect organizational performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Furthermore, while NXT Insight Designer has matured, it will not be a full replacement for CT clients because it is limited to NXT data only. . Tools for filtering, transforming, normalizing, and grouping data in Tableau enable the creation of dashboards that transform data into knowledge.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 16, 2021

He believes having a mentor is a big advantage because you’ll be able to, “learn and understand what makes them good at what they do but also talk about the challenges they face and skills you should pick up so you can handle the job.”. Joining a nonprofit board is a great way to learn this skill. But don’t let that get in your way!

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