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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Spectragram.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

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We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. Another option is to briefly share some content or a framework to kick off the participant knowledge sharing. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

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These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. Evaluation is not about getting to a best practice that can be spread around the world in a standardized way and to answer the question, “Is everyone following the recipe?”

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

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New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. What question do they want to answer by the end of the day? I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it.

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Integrating A Network Mindset Into Your Daily Work

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Social media tools can help you easily connect with people who have the knowledge, resources, and ideas to share. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below.

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Markets for Good Post: Design A Better Dashboard

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Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Staff were asked to use a technique called “ Rose, Bud, Thorn ” to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities for change. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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