Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. The five EI skills are: Build self-awareness to identify what makes you vulnerable to burnout. Was it an acquired skill? So, what did these resilient role models have in common? Managing yourself.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission. Volunteer from Anywhere with Citizen Philanthropy.

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Candid

MAY 5, 2021

While any loss of able employees is a tragedy, this does mean that if your nonprofit is hiring, there is a significant pool of qualified candidates to interview. Keep in mind that to even get candidates to apply, you need to build the kind of environment in which your model employees would want to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Associations that treat culture as a skill set are reaping rewards from their investment. Podcast,orgSource Senior Consultant, Kevin Martlage , interviewed PCI staffers, Beth Taylor and Randy Wilson about that experience. Identifying where individual talents lie and utilizing the team’s skills helps people to collaborate effectively.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The 67 in-depth interviews included conversations with some of the world’s most prominent and inspirational current and former CEOs, including Reed Hastings of Netflix, Sony’s Kaz Harai, and General Motors’ Mary Barra. Rather, the best CEOs are excellent in a few areas, and do a solid if not exemplary job in the others.”

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Charity Village

APRIL 12, 2022

The International Coaching Federation has listed the many benefits of coaching – including increased self-confidence (80%), improved work performance (74%) and communication skills (70%). There are many different models of coaching, but […].

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Below is what Jay Baer of Convince and Convert describes as a five-step “Digital Analytics Maturity Model.” . Build on what you learned through predictive analytics by looking at hidden factors you’ll find in sophisticated statistical analyses such as variable importance models and Markov chain models. You can’t rush it.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

What if we used new skills rooted in shared learning to drive results in a fraction of the time, for a fraction of the resources? When you use new skills for solution testing, you have a space for learning that is safe, rewarded, and supported. Redefine Success by Solution Testing. These are their greatest pain points.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

The 67 in-depth interviews included conversations with some of the world’s most prominent and inspirational current and former CEOs, including Reed Hastings of Netflix, Sony’s Kaz Harai, and General Motors’ Mary Barra. Rather, the best CEOs are excellent in a few areas, and do a solid if not exemplary job in the others.”

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In the last week, I’ve interviewed three different volunteer engagement professionals about volunteer retention as their organizations are in various stages of reopening and recovery from the pandemic-related restrictions on volunteer engagement. I am particularly fond of the model of 5 Levels of Delegation. Level 1: Do as I say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

So, as part of getting back into my blogging routine or rather establishing a new one, I'd like to reflect a little on TWT20 interview experience. Jay Baer is a blogger and social media consultant who has been doing Twitter 20 interview series with social media. I first discovered him when he was interviewing David Armano.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The 67 in-depth interviews included conversations with some of the world’s most prominent and inspirational current and former CEOs, including Reed Hastings of Netflix, Sony’s Kaz Harai, and General Motors’ Mary Barra. Rather, the best CEOs are excellent in a few areas, and do a solid if not exemplary job in the others.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. Pro Tip : Try to establish where your skills, hard work, and dedication can be best applied. Have several interviews before you offer the job. .

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

By keeping your mission on the top of their minds, you can utilize board members’ skills, enthusiasm and influence to improve your nonprofit as a whole. To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Let’s begin.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

The 67 in-depth interviews included conversations with some of the world’s most prominent and inspirational current and former CEOs, including Reed Hastings of Netflix, Sony’s Kaz Harai, and General Motors’ Mary Barra. Rather, the best CEOs are excellent in a few areas, and do a solid if not exemplary job in the others.”

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Perhaps it’s because of the people they’ll meet, or because they’ll pick up a valuable skill they can point to during their next job interview. Try using a younger adult who will be a more natural role model. Figure out why volunteering at your nonprofit would be attractive to a 20-something. Provide mentors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

You should also acknowledge that your Board members each have different skills and personalities, and some will be better at asking for money than others. Start by identifying the skills, expertise, and connections you need in new Board members to take your organization to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Eager to understand how nonprofits are faring in this challenging environment, we recently interviewed a number of diverse leaders about their capacity-building needs. In our interviews, we heard stories of physical attacks on clinics, on individuals being served, and on staff. Welcome to the new normal.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 4, 2014

Ever wondered about the do''s and don''ts of writing a: Business Apology Letter of Recommendation Job Advertisement Interview Follow-up Press Release Executive Summary Collection Letter Resignation Letter.then, the new book, How To Write Anything: A Complete Guide is for you.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Through the discovery process, we discussed how some staff members had to go to remote villages that were a month’s walk through the mountains to conduct interviews. The Salesforce architecture is actually the simplest piece because it’s built on a common data model. They needed a mobile app that worked offline. It’s as simple as that.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? Solis says successfully navigating the novel nonprofit economy will require a “new operating system” in which skills like creativity and innovation will be at a premium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Then you interview people on different sides of the scale.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2015

Ever wondered about the do''s and don''ts of writing a: Business Apology Letter of Recommendation Job Advertisement Interview Follow-up Press Release Executive Summary Collection Letter Resignation Letter.then, the book, How To Write Anything: A Complete Guide is for you. She''s also taught composition and literature at Columbia University.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

What we see through our work at Common Impact is increased employee excitement around programs like skills-based volunteerism, which provides a direct vehicle for a purpose-focused workforce to represent themselves and their company in society and in support of issues that matter. Skilled Volunteerism to Address Disaster Resiliency.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. We outlined a book that would become a new framework, not another Lean Startup or similar product-oriented guide, but a human-centric, narrative model. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. Social media is an important channel for both these groups. In the for-profit world, it is called the sales funnel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. It’s something incredible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal , Laura shared why she is releasing the curriculum and the basic frameworks. To provide any giver—donating any amount of time, money, experience, skills or networks—with free access to research, learning and experience I’ve developed over the last two decades as a strategic philanthropist.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. We outlined a book that would become a new framework, not another Lean Startup or similar product-oriented guide, but a human-centric, narrative model. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Brainstorm the skills, talents, and abilities you need so your marketing is clear. Be specific about what the volunteer will do, what skills are required, and how much of a time commitment you expect. Next, what are the required skills for the job? Stick to the skills that the job really requires, and don’t go overboard.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. We outlined a book that would become a new framework, not another Lean Startup or similar product-oriented guide, but a human-centric, narrative model. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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