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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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The problem might be something you’ve never considered. The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions. Groups discussed the same question simultaneously.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? ” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. You can brainstorm questions to kick off your session.

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

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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. With the right set of donor discovery questions, you will be able to determine the donor’s needs. The questioning techniques should include: Open Questions? —?they As Steven R.

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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

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Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. When I facilitate training, I use analog and digital tools and materials.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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The answers to straightforward questions will typically indicate whether an applicant is technically qualified. We look for candidates who are willing to be flexible and have the intellectual gravitas to dig into problems that we’re asked to solve every day. Hiring for skill is easy. Hiring for fit is more challenging.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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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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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information. The marketers might love to debate every question, and the membership staff might consider all that dialogue a waste of time. What has changed over time?