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Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. In the nonprofit sector, resiliency is framed as both a leadership skill for nonprofit professionals as well as organizational capacity. They define organizational resilience as follows: Leadership development, capacity, and financial sustainability. Resilience as a concept is not new. Bechtel, Jr.

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Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). In Defense of Community Managers. What do you think? Do you have examples to share?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Flickr photo: @brewbooks. Harness technology to meet your mission. Apply by March 1st.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. ” As the above word cloud indicates, sometimes stress is triggered by other people at work, leadership, board, or co-workers. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.”

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JULY 30, 2012

SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. Social Media: Getting Leadership Buy-In. To work with a network mindset means embracing an emerging leadership style that is characterized by greater openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and collective action.

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JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. What lies beneath a request for technology capacity or skill building or the rush to adopt the newest social or mobile tool? Are there other more pressing organizational issues that should be addressed first such as poor program quality or lack of a overall communications strategy or leadership issues.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Flickr: waywuwei Earlier this year, we worked with Avectra to release The 2013 Nonprofit Engagement Data Study , which was based on a survey of nonprofit communications and fundraising professionals, as well as executive directors.

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MAY 19, 2015

Flickr Photo by Celestine Chua. It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. The curriculum covers important “me” and “we” skills to manage themselves and others. One key leadership competency is the ability to change.

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JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. ” There is also “ Fire Drill Leadership ” as defined in this article as a shrill voice or tone that makes everything an emergency when it isn’t. The article describes the reasons why operating like this all the time is not a good idea: 1.

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JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. I read this wonderful article “ Agility Is Today’s Most Critical Leadership Competency ” by Julie Winkle Giuliani , author of “ Watch Them Grow or Watch Them Go.”

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APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. Instead what would it look like if everyone on staff, especially leadership, actively participated in furthering the organization’s mission online?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. Flickr Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal. Boardsource Leadership Conference, Governing the Networked Nonprofit in an Age of Social Media on November 11th. Networked Nonprofit in Vegas. Photo by KK.

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APRIL 23, 2015

Flickr Photo by Wesley Fryer. We need to double down our commitment to professional development, to mentorship, and to creating leadership opportunities for our key people. We need to commit to leadership development and mentorship. Where can new leaders be found? Right in our own organizational backyards. Here’s the truth.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. Amber and Julie shared a story about the importance of leadership making self-care an cultural norm. How does your organization’s leadership model and support it? Random fun from the IFYC “giddy committee.”. Have story? Share it in the comments below.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. He hints at the importance of organizational culture and leadership. “Organizations need to move away from thinking that health and wellness means providing a discount to a local gym. He also talks about designing the workplace for optimal health – standing desks anyone?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Leadership and decision making come from adoption not from executive authority. Your staff shouldn’t be in all the leadership positions nor should all the responsibility for moving a project (or program or service or tool) forward with development fall only on your shoulders. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ).

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flickr photo: woodleywonderworks November is member appreciation month, and we set today aside specifically to thank our amazing NTEN members, and to help them celebrate each other. Tags: Data Leadership NPTech NTEN. If you're on Twitter, just thank your favorite NTEN member(s) and include #ntenthanks in your update. We're a movement.

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MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. A chief predictor of growth and scaling was centralized program design leadership – in other words, only letting the necessary “cooks” belong in the program development “kitchen.” The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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JULY 15, 2010

Flickr photo: Brigitte Let me start by saying that I love the phrase "accidental techie." Tags: accidental techie Leadership NPTech. My great colleague Sue Bennett even wrote a book called " The Accidental Techie. Accidental techies are actually technology leaders. . So that's what I'm going to call you from now on.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. Help leadership understand the impact of social media by turning them into users. How does the leadership views social media? Influence the decision makers. This allows them to see, first-hand, the impact of social media communication. Sometimes our president tweets more than the organization!”.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Flickr Photo: Vermin Inc Sacrilege right? Tags: Infrastructure Leadership NPTech NTEN. This is the sort of thing I'm not supposed to say. We are, after all, the Nonprofit TECHNOLOGY Network. And yet, I'm reminded almost every day that technology isn't always the answer. . But sometimes, it's best to sit a little behind the curve.

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Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. If you support your ED, what have you found works for your leadership team? No matter what prompts the conversation though, it almost always circles back to the same place: productivity. That's all it takes.

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APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. This is what builds thought leadership and attention. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Do you or your organization have formal guidelines for “ spotting the awesome ” like Upwell (see below) or is it more of ”we know it when we see it?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by neoporcupine. From leadership, to strategy, to decision-making, to meetings, to job descriptions—a data-informed culture has continuous improvement embedded in the way it functions. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a webinar on measurement and nonprofit for Kivi at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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JUNE 30, 2011

There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook.

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JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. Which means it's the perfect time to invest in your professional development, and seek out opportunities for your organization.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Flickr photo by Giorgio Montersino You probably already know many of the advantages of working virtually: no commute (saving money, time, and the environment), fewer office space requirements, improved morale, or maybe even an office on the beach. Tags: Leadership remote team tom heck virtual. and we hope you takeadvantage !

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Flickr: ATOMIC Hot Links Ahhh, Labor Day weekend: the barbeques and parades, the hot rod drag race finals, and the wistful goodbye to summer, white shoes, and seersucker suits. For those in the Golden State, this year will play host to the first-ever California Nonprofit Tech Festival in Fresno on September 27 and 28.

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MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. Or does it?

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Flickr Photo: kohtzy Last weekend, I was lucky enough to speak at The Arc of the USA 's executive leadership conference. As usual, I did a session on social media , but they also let me trot out something new: Five Trends that Will Impact IT. The presentation includes lots of tech stuff, of course.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Helokee. Funders can encourage leaders to take time off, to think, to explore creative solutions to problems by funding sabbaticals, fellowships and other forms of leadership development. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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APRIL 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. He spoke about leadership from the heart. He applies Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to his career in business and his leadership style. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Then share them with your organization’s leadership. Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Don’t only look at social media analytics. Read your social media stories.

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JULY 14, 2015

Flickr Photo by udithawix. I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. These skills are: self-management and attention training.

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