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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques.

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Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills

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Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. The skills are: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. The green represents people talking about.

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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! Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! Technique 2: Affinity Mapping.

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Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights?

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I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. The most important listening literacy skills are. Use Some Creative Thinking Skills.

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

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We designed a highly interactive workshop based on Jo Wolfe’s “ NGO Digital Maturity Matrix ,” an assessment tool that enables nonprofits to codify mindsets and skill sets required for moving along the path of digital transformation. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Shadowing To Learn Web Video: DoGooder Awards Voting

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What are some practical techniques for practicing systems leadership skills? One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.” Some of the biggest names on YouTube – including John and Hank Green, Tyler Oakley, Hannah Hart – have been nominated for this year’s awards.

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Integrating A Network Mindset Into Your Daily Work

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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. Model Network Weaving: Network weaving encourages rhizomatic behavior – so what better way then to model the techniques for others.