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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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In a digital market moving at the speed of a video game, recruiting the right staff is a make-or-break activity. What can we do to ensure they have the skills to understand a challenging landscape and make the wise decisions needed for success? Focus on Mentoring Sue is a relationship builder. As a guest on the Association 4.0

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10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For very small nonprofits, this may not be true, but for medium and large nonprofits—or small nonprofits with a desire to grow their brand recognition and donors base—it’s becoming widely understood that new media managers have a unique and valuable skill set. Good Writing Skills. Photo and Video Editing Ability.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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The matrix is a diagram that helps the board outline its current characteristics, pinpoints gaps in demographics or talent, and identifies what skills are needed in the future. A well-produced video could also serve as a narrator, but real-time, in-person testimony is the more powerful option. Ideally, you might present both.

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Top benefits for association leaders to connect with their volunteer members

Nimble AMS

Publicly acknowledging your volunteer program is a great method to attract new volunteers and increase the recruitment of highly skilled members. . Offer mentor/mentee programs . Create a volunteer appreciation video. Show your volunteers you care by making a memorable thank you video. Send thank you cards.

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Onboarding New Fundraising Ambassadors: 3 Strategies for Nonprofits

Media Cause

This is key to empowering your ambassadors and giving them the skills they need to fundraise with success. . Create a mentor program. . Agendas can be especially helpful for virtual onboarding because they can reduce video fatigue. . Create a mentor program. . When launching your mentor program, be sure to: .

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Weekly Videos Provide Tips For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Be sure to take a few minutes each week to view the HEMP Mentorship Minute videos, created by the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program and the Kansas City Business Journal. In the videos, Kansas City-area entrepreneurs offer their advice about a wide range of topics of interest to business owners, managers and leaders.

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When Looking to Diversify Your Development Office, Widen Your Lens

Bloomerang

But I also wrote newsletters and annual reports, edited donor publications, produced promotional videos, hosted constituent events, and handled media relations. While I’d had little direct experience with individual donors, I had many valuable transferable skills to bring to the table.

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