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How To Never Stop Learning

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. Learning is so vital today that we can think of ourselves as living in a learning economy ,” says Staats. “

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.

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How To Never Stop Learning

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. Learning is so vital today that we can think of ourselves as living in a learning economy ,” says Staats. “

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How To Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, And Thrive

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. Learning is so vital today that we can think of ourselves as living in a learning economy ,” says Staats. “

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Finding the Best Nonprofit Membership Management Software: A Guide

Neon CRM

Wasted Time The average knowledge worker reports spending about 60% of their time on “work about work.” Staff and volunteers can make mistakes that filter throughout a nonprofit’s various software tools, leading to ineffective campaigns, inaccurate member information, and poor financial tracking.

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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ? industry and the tech industry (fishbowl). Reading what people recommend. Finding ???Looking

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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability.

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