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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? How do let go and allow for emergence?

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you find one for your nonprofit, follow the instructions to claim and set up your page : If your nonprofit does not find an unclaimed LinkedIn Page, then start from scratch and create a new page by going to your LinkedIn homepage > select the “Work” icon in the upper right > Create a Company Page.

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What Is a Story and Why You Need To Tell Them

The Storytelling Non-profit

But so many non-profit professionals get discouraged by storytelling because they think it’s going to require the unparalleled writing skills of a Pulitzer Prize winner. A narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale. What is a Story?

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