Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many nonprofits are interested in using e-learning to train staff members and volunteers. It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. Staff and volunteers can access the training anytime and anywhere. You design courses that specifically target what the learner needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults. Training Design'

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Additional training to individuals can also assist in expanding their knowledge on certain subjects that may be beneficial to them in the future. ASU Lodestar Center. In today’s world, job roles are constantly changing and new challenges arise in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

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. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. You don’t know what types of training would be most beneficial for your members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I think you can design around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Over the past year, participants have been getting comfortable with social media skills, being strategic, making them a habit, and first steps with measurements. Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Needless to say, I learned a lot and wanted to capture some of it here as well as the Tweet transcript.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

This rings of significant importance for businesses that are completely structured around a mobilized workforce, as training offerings of the past have seemed like a distant and unachievable possibility. Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

(see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. This summer I was lucky enough to do a network training with June Holley.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

They are both incredibly talented, attempting to improve themselves, and they just need help realizing their full potential; in order to develop the necessary skills to climb up all the way to the next level. The comparisons do not just end there. That is where coaching comes in.

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Develop Program Learning Comparison 63

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is always important to look at the challenges of adoption of improving organizational processes or individual skills, especially if they are new. It should always accompany the tips and how tos. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. With more time, would have done a set of three looking experience/skill, comfort, and communications/program. Tags: training materials. Making New Connections, Reinforcing Old Ones. PopTech is an.

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Program Reflection Instruction Instructional 78

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cloud for Good is seeking a director of Last Mile Training (LMT) to develop and deliver Salesforce training programs for several different roles. . Fluency in current Salesforce training programs (e.g., Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus . Salesforce certified.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

What do your nonprofit training efforts look like right now? Why not use it to train your team as well? Let’s walk through the benefits of using technology in your training strategy and how you can create e-learning courses that make an impact. What are the benefits of a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training? “If

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Training Train Tech Tips 52

Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Microlearning is a brief (less than 5 minute) learning component with a focus on a very particular learning object (specifically a skill, behavior, or compliance piece). Because they’re so brief, microlearnings are quick to make, implement, and can be a real game changer for your training courses if implemented correctly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

We many not be able to do visualization like a data scientist, but having a basic literacy in visualization skills can help work more effectively with data geeks and navigating our work. I’m writing this post from Tunisia.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. Some of the stand-out features of Adobe Captivate include the ability to: Use ready-to-go slides for common compliance and soft skill topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. Training Design'

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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