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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. You can do it.

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

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To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. Analyzing website traffic, social media, product sales, and marketing campaigns together strengthens activities on both sides of the equation. Data is an important connector.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

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But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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Rituals can boost our personal productivity because they allow us to focus and reach our goals without distraction. My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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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 most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. ” questions.

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

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To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. Analyzing website traffic, social media, product sales, and marketing campaigns together strengthens activities on both sides of the equation. Data is an important connector.

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Facilitating with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques.