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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

.orgSource

What are the lessons learned? Following are a few of my observations on the indelible takeaways and lessons learned about remote work. While listeners are responsible for hearing what is said before formulating a response and asking follow-up questions that ensure they have correctly understood. We nailed it!

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Answering the Sustainability Question

Pamela Grow

It’s the grant application question you always dread… How will your organization sustain this program when the grant is complete? But the real answers to the sustainability question start long before keying in the first word on a grant application. No fluff, no filler, no BS. Just focused tools and advice you can actually use.

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7 Key Lessons Learned from Virtual Fundraising Events in 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With a solid year of virtual fundraising under our collective belt, let’s take a look at seven key lessons learned in 2020 to help your nonprofit continue reaching those goals and fighting for its mission. That’s due in large part to the ability to pivot fundraising efforts from in-person to virtual.

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Leadership Lessons From Movies

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Toward the beginning of Joseph Lalonde ’s book, Reel Leadership , he shares, “We’re going to delve into the leaderships lessons we can find in movies. Joseph Lalonde Earlier this year, Lalonde shared these insights with us: Question: What are your one or two favorite leadership quotes from movies? So, sit back; get ready.

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Leadership Lessons From A Serial Entrepreneur

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. Toward the end of the book is Appendix C, which lists 45 core questions to help you assess job applicants. Give the speaker your full attention and keep an open, receptive mind.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

To do this, I need to trace both the history of the organization as well as the transformational changes it underwent in order to illustrate the lessons I learned throughout this process. However, along the way we learned several lessons that proved integral to maintaining an effective—and accountable—board.

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The Southwest Airlines Flight Fiasco: Lessons For Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

While you may never find yourself in a crisis of this magnitude at your nonprofit, you can learn from Southwest’s mistakes and use those lessons to prepare for a potential disaster. Let’s look at the following lessons. Lesson One: You need the right software and processes in place. Lesson Three: You need a contingency plan.

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