Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

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. Take advantage of that strong desire to learn by offering professional development opportunities from formal training to informal mentoring options.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . International Game Technology. International Game Technology. Funding Priority: Education. The Awesome Foundation. New Earth Foundation. Cornell Douglas Foundation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

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. Take advantage of that strong desire to learn by offering professional development opportunities from formal training to informal mentoring options.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

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. Take advantage of that strong desire to learn by offering professional development opportunities from formal training to informal mentoring options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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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

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. The challenges we face as a sector and a society are complicated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Dipping: This is checking in with yourself and to notice any internal distractions or feelings – not to judge them but be aware. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. It is basically a pause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

To do this effectively, the CEO and executive team need to define future leadership requirements, identify potential internal candidates, provide appropriate stretch assignments, offer mentorship, provide formal trainings, and assess performance to help grow their abilities. Planning and facilitating fundraising events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

They reach out and welcome and mentor newcomers and newer people to the community. Each session has someone assigned from the community to help curate and assist. It is great to observe a conference where the “elders” and the next generation of young leaders provide mutual respect and support.

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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). Will you do brown bag lunches, internal webinars, or one-on-one coaching? The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

Lauren Vegter , a Sloan Management Science and Operations Research student, is one of the founding members of MIT International Development Consulting. MIT IDC's mission is to, "improve the efficiency and sustainability of international development efforts using the business knowledge and engineering talent of MIT students."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I went alone, sent with a blessing from my boss at the International Spy Museum. Become their friends and invite them to be your mentors. I started to see generous mentors everywhere. The first training I went to was on Public Narrative, led by master facilitator Sarah El-Raheb. The Museum 2.0 Learn from them.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

And hundreds of top mentors contributed to what’s rattling around in his head. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. BethKanter.org.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Here’s some food for thought on the topic that will hopefully make customization-related decisions easier next time it comes up, whether with vendors, internal business stakeholders, or developers: You keep using that word “customization” I do not think it means what you think it means. Document Requirements.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Proactively identifying opportunities to improve our practice, and subsequently designing and delivering internal projects? . Coaching and mentoring junior consultants working on the same team/vertical? . and mentoring to be successful.? . Provide informal mentoring and coaching to peer consultants? .

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here are a few tools you can leverage to facilitate the process: Customer relationship management (CRM) systems: CRM platforms , such as Salesforce, make it possible to gather and manage all of your association’s data effectively.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

There are a lot of companies that give to international causes, which is great. We do it both through personal mentoring, but also with the right skill sets. I think that government really should facilitate an environment that nurtures business development, and then get out of the way. We love it. That is all good and great.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. Glenn Hirsch is manager of internal communication and administration at TechSoup. We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution. " This Just In!

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 28, 2021

On April 21, 2021, Salesforce.org brought together an international Nonprofit Community for the very first Nonprofit Summit. As AKC’s Director of Strategic Planning, Seth Fera-Schanes oversees the full technology roadmap for the company while leading, mentoring, and developing both people and products across departments.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. Glenn Hirsch is manager of internal communication and administration at TechSoup. We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution. " This Just In!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Because once we write it down, we start to see it on paper, it reflects to us, we start to internalize it, and then we start to tell the world, right? We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. We start to take action. . If it goes a year or a year and a half, it can lose momentum.

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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. These are simple, this kind of warm-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups. They offer comprehensive high school scholarships, personalized mentoring, and leadership training. Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present.

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