Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans. Model and Celebrate Well-being Practices Creating a robust work culture that incorporates well-being is fundamental. Leaders should also model work-life harmony , recognizing that work and life is never balanced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Compared to today’s models, Eliza was tongue-tied.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. They are role models who inspire teams to see from a different perspective. ” That is profound wisdom.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? The Back Channel.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As a Master Trainer, one of my favorite models of training adults is the Peer Learning Exchange where a group of participants who are working on a similar project or domain of practices interact regularly to learn how to do it better. 18, and a Google Hangout with the Chronicle of Philanthropy at 1 p.m. ET Thursday Sept.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2018

Whether patient fundraising is a new idea at your organization or your development team wants to evolve a long-standing program, the first question is a frequent and practical one. They make lighter work of big questions like this and can help inform decisions about organizational focus, resources, and strategies. Where do you start?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Your strategic plan should include projects that will push forward your priorities, the board members that will help facilitate each task, key performance indicators and a timeline for completion.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Always developing a meeting agenda, sharing it with attendees beforehand, and explicitly asking them to review it and note any questions or comments. One way to accomplish this is to try a simple round-robin discussion, answering questions like, “What’s something you want to be sure we address today?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. Are there differences in models by field / industry/ place?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Here are some things that attendees are looking for from a hybrid event model! When looking at the hybrid event model, be sure to use a virtual event platform that will integrate the live event elements into the digital experience. Well, yes, it may seem surprising but your hybrid event needs to facilitate networking opportunities !

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

Having volunteers lead calls , facilitate meetings, speak out about their own experiences, and have a sense of ownership over the success of their teams. Click here to answer a few questions (and be entered to win a sweet Goldbelly gift certificate)!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. New power is behind some of the most impactful movements (and business models) of the decade. These are key questions of our times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

We asked them many questions, and honed in on what it took for them to be successful. Planning Ahead and Outlining Goals Facilitates Long-Term Success. To make the transition to using Salesforce as seamless as possible, it’s always helpful to learn tips from other organizations in their use of Salesforce.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. Then I moderate a 10 minute Q&A session, answering questions that volunteers type into the chat box. Staff participation was modeled by our Unit Director and leadership team, who participated in some of the early calls.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

This is a question I broached in “ What Will a Post-COVID Nonprofit Economy Reveal ? ” Here are several questions for your consideration. Ask questions like: Which of the following describes your mood over the past 6 months? How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives?

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

With dropping revenue and antiquated sales models dying left and right, each industry must work toward a new way of doing business and doing it effectively enough during these unique circumstances. . Live chat can facilitate a presentation, a Q&A, a general chat, or polling questions. .

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TechImpact

APRIL 24, 2014

There are a lot of hard questions that must be asked, however. Questions like: What potential security hazards does a BYOD policy present? Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is an Internet Protocol (IP) that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks, and facilitates internet traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

And while this model is describing individual behavior, individuals make up organizations – so I think it is important for people working in organizations to understand, whether they are the executive director or the social media manager. If they do, they are typically “resistant” learners, often questioning the value of the technology.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2014

In addition to the conversations with participants in three separate tracks, #14LCS includes a stellar lineup of keynote speakers who will spark new conversations and nudge existing conversations to introduce new questions. And check out the full lineup of #14LCS speakers and facilitators !

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

Working in a white-led nonprofit agency that serves seniors has led me to question what efforts can be taken to improve our outreach to diverse neighborhoods, and I have been connecting with others in my community to inquire what they are doing to intentionally engage with members of minority communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

Show how the new systems can facilitate and drive those goals. a TCO modeled over three to five years. Step 4: Be prepared for questions. Leadership will likely have multiple questions. Initial questions typically fall into one of these categories: challenges, TCO, ROI, timeline, and resourcing. identified risks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. I often incorporate sticky notes and often have to rearrange the furniture.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Here are some things that attendees are looking for from a hybrid event model! When looking at the hybrid event model, be sure to use a virtual event platform that will integrate the live event elements into the digital experience. Well, yes, it may seem surprising but your hybrid event needs to facilitate networking opportunities !

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Virtual Facilitation Audience Video 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. You did great.

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