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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. In my workshop design, I always include a “learning artifact” such as a “strategy poster” and time in the workshop for participants to present.

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JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Next, try provocative statements.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

And that’s why I love teaching and training because it is all about the learning for both you and the participants. No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation. Here are some tips.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method? Do you have a preferred method?

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APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? That’s great! But, where do you begin? What does a learning consultant do?

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JUNE 28, 2016

This training was a day and half and here’s what we covered: Section 1: Self-Awareness: Understanding and Moving Through Your Leadership and Communications Style. The first session focused on self-awareness skills. Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail?

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APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. In other words, to what end? Support a fun icebreake r.

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JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

To mark Valentine’s Day, I took some inspiration from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the vintage Valentine’s Day Cards pinterest board to create a presentation about social media measurement love. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Learning Analytics.

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MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners. 10+ ready-to-use content modules and question types. Should you invest in an authoring tool?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. How do you define failure for our organization or program?

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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