Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Being stuck in chronic performance can have a devastating impact on your skills, confidence, job, and personal life. No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.” Briceño : This depends on the situation.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. These are telltale signs: Your strategy has changed. Remote work is challenging teams. That’s trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. Those achievements reflect your organization’s quality and imply a standard of excellence. Preparing a board matrix is a learning experience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is why it is important for leaders to encourage staff to reflect on their workflow processes and to encourage experimentation as described below. It helps them cultivate essential human skills like adaptability, creativity, and problem-solving, which are invaluable in a world increasingly shaped by AI.

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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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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

Lack of accomplishment: struggling to be effective or efficient at work, noticing lower productivity or capability, or feeling low on morale and coping skills. To this end, the Job-Demands-Resources model offers a simple equation: burnout = demands > resources. Reflect on the demands your job places on you—can any be removed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The first session focused on self-awareness skills. Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. This section started out with a mini-session on practical skills for self-management so your emotions don’t run away with you. You can find the resources here.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Food banks can operate on a large scale that requires expensive equipment and skilled management. How much of their budget is appropriate to spend on new equipment, skilled managers and everything else required for an organization to thrive and endure? The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Shift the gaze internally to reflect on both progress made and opportunities ahead. In the spirit of self-reflection and sharing how we are fueling evolution, here are three ideas to spark forward momentum as a change agent for equitable grantmaking practices. Evolution is an ongoing practice. Change begins with you.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Adaptive learning models can empower teachers to customize instruction for each student’s needs, and students can even personalize a digital tutoring experience. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Associations that treat culture as a skill set are reaping rewards from their investment. Helping the group become skilled culture builders is one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve been privileged to support. Identifying where individual talents lie and utilizing the team’s skills helps people to collaborate effectively.”

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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. Both by authors with first names of Brian. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The end of the calendar year is traditionally a time of reflection – looking back on the year’s achievements, challenges, joys, and losses. While 2020 is no different in that regard, our reflections are paired with an urgent desire to put this difficult year behind us. Thank you. [1]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. It was great to have a co-trainer who knew the subject matter, fluent in English, and who understood group facilitation skills and training approaches. I do not speak Spanish.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2021

The social impact sector cannot return to a pre-pandemic operating model because we have adapted and grown in the last year. Now is the time to step back and reflect on what is and isn’t working. Some programs won’t survive in a post-pandemic service model, and that’s okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

We framed the session as what to think about before, during, and after a training , using the “ADDIE” model as an organizing device. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the age of monetizing social media through algorithms and paid advertising revenue models, getting two clicks per 100 followers is generous. Be generous with endorsing the skills of others as endorsements are often reciprocated. Every action you take in LinkedIn Groups reflects your personal brand and the brand of your nonprofit.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 31, 2022

Calbright College is California’s only fully online community college and was established to increase access to skills-based credentials and certificates for non-traditional learners across the state – those who have fallen through the cracks in the economy, or who need to upskill or re-skill to be competitive in today’s rapidly evolving job market.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Through practical exercises, stories, illustrative case studies, chapter-by-chapter reflection questions and action items, you’ll learn how to harness the real and raw power of your mind to build solid workplace relationships for virtually any situation. True collaboration is about creating something new and together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. Developed by ETR in 2014, this is a research-based approach for designing and delivering skill-building trainings. Pre-work would prime me for the learning objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

The Role of Trust-Based Philanthropy The growing interest in giving larger, unrestricted—and in many cases multi-year— commitments reflects a widening embrace of “trust-based philanthropy” (TBP) among select funders. When funders model vulnerability and power-consciousness , it signals to grantees that they can show up more fully.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. Outline engaging activities and events that align with your mission but also provide opportunities for members to actively participate and contribute their skills. Don’t stop there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. I modeled that I don't know everything. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google undoubtedly grew tired of updating and developing two tools that couldn’t accurately reflect the type of complex user journeys we see today, where people switch between apps, mobile browsers, and desktops frequently. The biggest change in GA4 is the shift from a model based on sessions and pageviews to a model based on events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. With more time, would have done a set of three looking experience/skill, comfort, and communications/program. Making New Connections, Reinforcing Old Ones.

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Program Reflection Instruction Instructional 78

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the framework allows each entity to remain true to its institutional identity, it also provides the organizational model necessary to scale impact. Learn from the past: Reflect upon the context of the American church and its history of engagement in the city, embracing what is fruitful and rejecting what is unjust.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2021

The social impact sector cannot return to a pre-pandemic operating model because we have adapted and grown in the last year. Now is the time to step back and reflect on what is and isn’t working. Some programs won’t survive in a post-pandemic service model, and that’s okay.

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Change Vietnam Nonprofit Leadership 49

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 call on people, saying the next is A, followed by B.

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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. And even more importantly, what's your take on this model as an engagement strategy? It's like trying to get back into physical shape after you haven't been exercising for a while. .

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Today’s students see high tuition costs, increased demand for skilled labor, and a decline in degree requirements for open positions. Ensure your marketing, website, and social media appeal to a broad audience and reflect an ever-changing student population. How is your institution a better choice for their future?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

Over the last year, we’ve done our best to extol the benefits of skills-based volunteerism to npEngage readers , offering best practices for and case studies on pro bono service. In fact, skills-based volunteerism has emerged in response to both corporate and nonprofit desires to make the most out of community service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology?

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