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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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She studies team composition. Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective. A mission team—like any team, anywhere—needs competent people who work well together,” Bell advises. “In Trust me, it’s worth it.

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Get Them to Build Castles—Strategies for Successful Cross-Functional Teams

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The left brain uses emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and artful facilitation to keep all the players working productively together. The post Get Them to Build Castles—Strategies for Successful Cross-Functional Teams appeared first on.orgSource. The more diverse the group, the harder the left brain must work. […].

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8 Fantastic Facilitation Playbooks for Designing Productive Nonprofit Meetings

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Meetings are a big part of our work week, whether it is a recurring staff, team, or board meeting or informal check-in. Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. That’s why I’ve keep a good list of meeting facilitation playbooks handy for inspiration.

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

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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. Were they unengaging? Credibility.

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Become the Association Your Members Want

The sessions were facilitated by Elizabeth Engel, Chief Strategist, Spark Consulting. This article is the result of feedback gleaned during those dialogues, previous research, and the viewpoints of the.orgSource team. We organized a Think Tank to help identify trends and crystalize our outlook on the future of membership.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. We saw their loyalty as beyond commercial transactions.