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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

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My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply?

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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