Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. .” What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

Professional 101

Professional Network Learning Lebanon 101

.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Finding the bandwidth and funding to provide professional guidance for staff and volunteers may be a stumbling block. If one or more of your directors is involved in diversity planning in their professional life, ask them to present to the group; Or invite a CEO and/or staff members from another association to tell their story.

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Associations Reflection Leadership Training 221

Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Example: A professional association analyzed instructor performance and found that courses taught by a specific expert received consistently positive reviews and higher completion rates. As a result, they invited the expert to develop more courses and saw an increase in learner enrollment and program revenue.

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Analytics Education Program Impact 169

.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. Although we are all more aware of the benefits of diversity, one of the remaining hurdles is resistance to representation from outside of an association’s professional sphere.

Mentoring 221

Mentoring Director Associations Professional 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Many nonprofit professionals will tell you that the answer is “time” and/or “resources.” No matter how intuitive a system may be, there are always a few questions, tips, and tricks that a training professional can help you with so you get started on a solid foundation. Are they affiliated with any nonprofit professional organizations?

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Software Fundraising Training Train 303

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Effective delivery for professional development needs to be integrated into the actual work day and that with limited professional development budgets and fast paced workloads, micro-content and micro-exercises as well as mini-sessions are most useful.

Professional 91

Professional Develop Leadership Influence 91

Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

For staff, working in a start-up nonprofit is often an exercise in mindreading. Staff feel like they are supposed to be able to anticipate the founder’s thoughts, adapt to different working styles, and mimic the founder’s professional instincts. In short, from a staff perspective, a frustrating dynamic often emerges.

Nonprofit 85

Nonprofit Children Problem Phase 85

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

Along with the questionnaire, send a Branding Word Exercise that will help your design or marketing firm to understand the desired feelings to associate with the new brand. Credibility — Is your first impression of the name, tagline, and/or logo a professional and credible one? Will there be any misunderstanding or confusion?

Tools 281

Tools Effective Evaluation Nonprofit 281

CauseVox

JANUARY 21, 2022

We learned important personal and professional lessons through the trials and sprints of the last two years: resiliency, the importance and interdependence of our personal and community safety nets, our boundaries, and awareness of our respective privileges and challenges. About your Speaker.

Analysis 78

Analysis Goal Content Exercise 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

Professional 113

Professional Management Journal Reflection 113

The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

Regularly update your skills through professional development opportunities, staying proactive in your learning journey. Like fitness and exercise, build learning into your daily routine. And like exercise, over time growth and learning becomes habitual and natural.

Structure 105

Structure Exercise Challenge Skills 105

Elevation

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’re a nonprofit needing professional services, you’ll often be required to create a Request for Proposal (RFP) before hiring a vendor. For a complex project like a website, taking the time to go through the RFP process can be an exercise in fully defining your expectations that prepares your staff for success.

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Proposal Websites Exercise Project 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

It covered how leaders can use their social channels as their authentic selves to engage with their communities and in leadership conversations with peers, social learning, and intentionally building and developing professional networks online. How do you de-clutter your professional online network?

Professional 50

Professional Network Arts Online 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2018

Her book addresses the big barrier to happiness in our personal/professional lives. ” The steps and exercises in the book help you look inward, reflect, but also seek out help from others. Some of these exercises are intended for you to do alone, but others can be done in groups.

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Review Work Exercise Reflection 91

Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2023

The average tenure of a development professional at a given nonprofit is approximately 16 months. No professional — no matter how talented and skilled — will be able to turn around the advancement environment by themselves. Development professionals must be recognized and respected for their expertise.

Fundraising 70

Fundraising Retention Gift Nonprofit 70

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And it links you to a website where you alone or in a group can supplement your reading with some interactive exercises and resources. For our book, forming a reading group with professional peers would be especially helpful, inside or outside the organization in which you work.

Skills 92

Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

Your professional network is your greatest asset no matter what stage you are in your nonprofit career, whether you are an emerging leader or an acknowledged thought leader in your industry or somewhere in between. I like to balance two different approaches to professional networking, strategic and serendipitous.

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Network Professional Build Work 50

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 24, 2021

The more you work to improve it and exercise it, the more it grows. Showing up prepared is one of the easiest and most effective confidence-building exercises you can do. ” I may not have been the oldest, most experienced, or savviest professional in the room, but I was always the most willing. You’re more than your work.

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Exercise Knowledge Google Roles 78

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The coaching with compassion method is based on five steps for intentional change , which the authors teach in the book using rich, inspiring and real-life stories and science-based, heavily researched exercises. And, this type of coaching is different from mentoring, which can sometimes last over decades.

Mentoring 63

Mentoring Teach Authoring Exercise 63

Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

Or you might change into professional clothes to signify when you’re at work. Try to detach by exercising, socializing, meditating, or spending time on a hobby that requires focused attention (e.g., To distinguish your work life from your home life, create a transition ritual or routine. Mentally put your work down.

Life 105

Life Work Calendar Attention 105

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Whether from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (Apra), or the Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP), you’ll find overlap with fundraising ethics statements and the guidelines for trustworthy AI.

Action 84

Action Effective Model Hype 84

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you feel mired in stress and anxiety, you might have a tough time with this exercise. Gratitude is a muscle that needs exercise. Use this exercise daily to keep your head in the right place. But the exercise will help you move forward in a positive way. Just write down three things you are grateful for. That’s okay.

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Personal Practice Journal Fundraising 119

Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

One exercise I particularly enjoyed was called the Mash-Up. Through this exercise, I came up with the idea of a time-tracking app that features video footage of nature that plays in the background. Combining a workplace necessary evil with moments of delight was an inspiring exercise.

Exercise 52

Exercise Classes Brain Design 52

NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

How you use social media can help your contacts connect both to you and the organization, while also demonstrating your understanding about how to use these tools professionally. Let us know about your success and fail stories with this exercise!). Where do these goals meet and how do they differ?

Social Media 89

Social Media Personal Professional Media 89

AFP Blog

APRIL 8, 2016

Bring Your Own App - Digital Flexibility Is Being Exercised - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times : "The request led her to crowdsourcing apps at national conferences. this past March and then again at the Association of Nurses in Professional Development’s (ANPD) Aspire to Excel conference in Las Vegas, Nev., in July.

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Las Vegas Exercise Oklahoma City Oklahoma 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. As part of the set-up to the exercise, I share some examples from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Promote from within.

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Culture Activities Active Activism 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Most of our work as social media nonprofit professionals is to be present on our online communities, listen, engage, and manage content. Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude. But for many, those tasks are not necessarily the whole job even if your organization culture is streamlined and simple.

Social Media 108

Social Media Professional Time Management 108

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

More specifically, Wiens’ research shows that professionals who exhibit a high degree of emotional intelligence ( EI ) have the ability to clearly perceive, understand, and productively manage emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. They know it means: Understanding yourself.

Build 93

Build Pennsylvania Environment Skills 93

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fortunately, each book chapter includes a real-world practice called a Pro Move and an exercise, both carefully crafted to help you overcome hang-ups and take more joy in communicating. They require taking risks—to reveal yourself, question your beliefs, take a leap of faith, or move out of your comfort zone.

Challenge 52

Challenge Communication Exercise Teach 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In addition, authors Jennifer Edwards and Katie McCleary , share that there are four external forces that make navigating professional relationships increasingly bumpy : Four generations of people wake every day to go to work, together. The personal and the professional are intermingling in new and surprising ways.

Relationship 52

Relationship Collaboration Challenge Work 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 15, 2022

The coaching with compassion method is based on five steps for intentional change , which the authors teach in the book using rich, inspiring and real-life stories and science-based, heavily researched exercises. And, this type of coaching is different from mentoring, which can sometimes last over decades.

Teach 52

Teach Authoring Mentoring Exercise 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. I used this a variety of ways: whiteboard interactive lecture and brainstorm; sticky note exercise; and student work space.

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Training Train Design Classroom 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The reflection exercise can be found here.

Exercise 50

Exercise Knowledge Tag Collaboration 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

The coaching with compassion method is based on five steps for intentional change , which the authors teach in the book using rich, inspiring and real-life stories and science-based, heavily researched exercises. And, this type of coaching is different from mentoring, which can sometimes last over decades.

Teach 52

Teach Authoring Mentoring Exercise 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

Activities 105

Activities Active Activism Integration 105

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Crises offer an opportunity for nonprofit professionals to step into leadership roles and requires those already in leadership to manage effectively to ensure that the board and the executive leadership teams are engaged. According to Crisis Planning in the Nonprofit Sector: Should We Plan for Something Bad If It May Not Occur?

Management 98

Management Brazil California Leadership 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The coaching with compassion method is based on five steps for intentional change , which the authors teach in the book using rich, inspiring and real-life stories and science-based, heavily researched exercises. And, this type of coaching is different from mentoring, which can sometimes last over decades.

Teach 55

Teach Authoring Mentoring Exercise 55