Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the book, Strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This involves both choosing who these new leaders will be, as well as preparing them with the best possible leadership skills. Fundraising chops: Your future leader should be skilled at fundraising to keep your organization thriving. Mentor and train your future leaders. Most nonprofits do not have leadership succession plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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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. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Then call on people, saying the next is A, followed by B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? How do we get a telling the story about why this all important?

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. By recruiting not just skilled staff but also key prospects and external stakeholders, these committees and their meetings can serve double duty: driving the campaign forward logistically and unlocking further engagement and generosity from all those involved.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

These questions should help you make sure you are recruiting people with the right skill sets who can represent experiences and voices that you may not have on your staff. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. What gave me joy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic.

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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. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Individual training sessions are not sufficient, and leaders should ensure that the three types of organizational learning are addressed: Internally Focused Learning centers around the needs of an organization’s clients or customers. Bring in subject matter experts quarterly to train staff and inform them of emerging trends and patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Leadership training on communications styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 16, 2021

The lack of structure can be challenging. He believes having a mentor is a big advantage because you’ll be able to, “learn and understand what makes them good at what they do but also talk about the challenges they face and skills you should pick up so you can handle the job.”. But don’t let that get in your way!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

So much, in fact, that organizations are boarding the train without a map, a travel bag, and even a destination. Worse yet, they have not considered the repercussions of boarding the collaboration train. This is the “train” on the tracks. This is the fuel for the train. Now, board the train with confidence!

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! And guess what? This isn’t failproof!

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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. Yet currently very few leaders in these emergent networks and collaborations have the tools and skills they need to succeed. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). How do these networks evolve over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

The Network Weaver Handbook is designed to give you skills and resources you need to build effective and innovative networks. If you are need to understand how networks work and grow – and need to develop and hone network weaving skills – this amazing handbook will give you what you need! Order it here.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. Invest in their team's continued technical and influential (soft) skill development. and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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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. Flickr Image – ImageGroup. Today, this view is fundamentally changing.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The facilitator may be able to better convey the need and achieve the desired results.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Here are four tips we recommend for the rest of 2021 and beyond: Revisit your training and onboarding process. Revisit your training and onboarding process. You take them through the entire training and onboarding process consisting of one-on-one coaching and tons of documents and paperwork. Frightened by these statistics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She pointed out that an individual’s knowledge and skills will be out of date within 5 years and a college degree will be out of date long before the loan is paid off. This means we need to build the skill of learning the new and this means building online social network competence. Why is learning the new important?

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

Training your team and developing their communication skills will be essential. Charitable remainder trusts work similarly to charitable annuities but are structured through trusts that donors establish specifically for giving to one or more charities. Charitable remainder annuity trusts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. Invest in their team's continued technical and influential (soft) skill development. and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. Invest in their team's continued technical and influential (soft) skill development. and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. I'd like to see larger conferences incorporating an element like this--a structured opportunity for people to brainstorm with those who are outside their own personal networks. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. You did great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more.

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