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Volunteer Training: Exceeding Expectations

Volunteer Hub

Having a good training process is an important first interaction with volunteers. Is your volunteer training program exceeding expectations? Developing a training program that exceeds the expectations of volunteers will impact retention, engagement, and referral sources for your nonprofit. Hands On Training.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning analytics is an emergent field of research that aspires to use data analysis to inform decisions made on every area education, from understanding student data to build better pedagogies, target at-risk students, and to assess whether programs designed have been effective and should be sustained. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority. Tech training that actually works Let’s face it, a lot of technology training is garbage.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS

Gyrus

A Learning Management System Means… More Time. Learning programs are resource intensive. In order to properly organize a blended learning environment without a learning management system, a great deal of time needs to be dedicated. Sure, your staff is undergoing your training, and it seems to be working.

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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

Socialbrite

This is the type of knowledge that is codified and easy to teach. Acquiring knowledge either through research, training, and education (explicit knowledge) or through daily experiences and know-how (tacit knowledge) should be done across the organization — individually or as a group. Explicit knowledge. This type is easily shared. .