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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

.orgSource

What can we do to ensure they have the skills to understand a challenging landscape and make the wise decisions needed for success? Lately, I’ve been speaking and writing about the importance of emotional intelligence and how the softer skills add a critical dimension to digital initiatives. How do we bring novice players up to speed?

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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Investing in Growth: Leaders’ Professional Development Plans

The NonProfit Times

Nonprofit leaders need to commit to a mindset of continuous learning and professional development to remain relevant and effective in their current roles. Here are five reasons for investing in personalized professional development for leaders and strategies to support your professional journey.

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Are AI and EI an Odd Couple? Nope, Pairing Bytes With Behavior Is a Perfect Match

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As we move deeply into a business environment dominated by artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence becomes increasingly important. Build the Human Skills AI and EI might seem to be an odd couple for any number of reasons. One of the greatest current dangers in our space is squandering those resources by taking them for granted.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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Of course, it’s important to consider skills. The skill that got her promoted wasn’t balanced by the emotional readiness or sensitivity to undertake her new responsibilities. That intervention would have saved considerable effort and resources. Here’s an illustration of this idea from my experience.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

.orgSource

To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. Their resumes will list skills we barely register today.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

.orgSource

Many of the characteristics we identified are the same skills that entrepreneurs use to grow start-up ventures. Smart developers begin with a prototype, a product with just enough features to be attractive, allowing customer response to guide the final design. At.orgSource we call that collection of wisdom our Association 4.0