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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? Did your last facilitator stand behind a lectern and drone on like a record playing in slow motion? Facilitate and engage with confidence. Ask the right questions.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches.

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How to Facilitate the Discovery Step of the Donor-Centered Approach

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The next meeting should move from a from public visit to a nonprofit visit to a personal visit. Office visits are just as personal. The focus is getting to know the donor through a series of discovery questions that you’ll ask with the donor’s permission, of course. The questioning techniques should include: Open Questions? —?they

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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. Pictured above).

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Bell is researching what mix of personalities is most likely to work effectively together. The answers to straightforward questions will typically indicate whether an applicant is technically qualified. Introducing a toxic personality into your team is a recipe for disaster. One person can poison an entire organization.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Networked Facilitation.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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That’s a question every association CEO should be able to answer. Board members are personally responsible for the organization’s compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. But it should be reinforced in person during the orientation for new members and in the documentation they receive. Presentations from experts.

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