.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

The answers to straightforward questions will typically indicate whether an applicant is technically qualified. Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. But for the evaluation process to be meaningful, the majority of directors should be enthusiastic participants. CITE folded the evaluation process into their ongoing activities.

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Evaluation Government Director Facilitation 251

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

That’s a question every association CEO should be able to answer. Allow plenty of time on the agenda for the financial staff to explain when and how statements will be available, review banking, investment, and auditing arrangements, and answer questions. Be sure to allow time for questions. What is your board’s financial IQ?

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Raise Law Associations Director 419

AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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Survey Virtual Question Sponsor 98

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Streamline event registration and ticketing processes with an AI-powered chatbot. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines.

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Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. In other words, how to scale reflective practice in age of connectedness? How do you go beyond just doing a survey or collecting metrics?

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s been quite a frustrating process, especially when inputting 33 different countries one by one in the “where we work&# section just to have the “save&# not work. As an administrator on an organization’s page, I find it interesting that it doesn’t share these details with you during the set up process.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

The Storytelling Non-profit

JULY 25, 2020

Rather than focus on each of these topics individually, what I’m going to do in upcoming content is share with you my framework and process for making strategic decisions and planning. Today I’m going to share 4 questions that I always use when I’m trying to answer the question, “What next?” What should we do more of?

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Question Reflection Results Storytelling 41

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Evaluation Reflection Open Source Journal 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Below is my fully human-generated reflection. Use Cases We discussed different use cases beyond productivity for writing tasks and processing email. Create small low risk experiments to answer the question: does this use case make sense for our organization? I think we need to use a beginner’s mind and be open to learning.

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Conversation Adopt Generation Nonprofit 122

AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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Survey Virtual Question Sponsor 59

.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ensure a long-term commitment to the process by Incorporating EI into your organization’s values and performance evaluations. Provide recognition and compensation that reflect its importance. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation. It’s a fun and enlightening activity that puts self-awareness at the top of the agenda.

Team 221

Team Technology Help Digital 221

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. Here are some questions to ask yourself: How long does it take for your grantees to fill out your application? What feedback have you received from your grantees about your application process?

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Application Leadership Grant Philanthropy 88

Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

I came up with a process for matching volunteers with capacity-building roles that was very successful. The process boiled down to four easy steps: Step 1: Conduct an Assessment of Staff Needs. For example, if your development team wants volunteers who are passionate about fundraising, your recruitment efforts should reflect that.

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Roles Process Volunteer Colorado 70

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But is this the right question? The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For many grantmakers, the answer to these questions is our own institutions. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes – Guest Post by Kelcie Tacchi. Define your Call to Action.

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Knowledge Process Share Organization 100

Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Many in the philanthropic community desire that nonprofits reflect the communities they serve—including everyone from volunteers and donors to staff, executives, and the board. You want to ensure all voices from the communities you serve are reflected throughout your organization, especially on your board. What policies are in place?

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Policy Reflection Culture Training 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ask open-ended questions that invite feedback and follow-up. Make time for reflection. Practice questioning your attitudes and intentions before every decision. The process of documentation illuminates insights you might not otherwise discover. However, awareness of the distractions can minimize their impact.

Awareness 221

Awareness Singapore Journal Roles 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

We obsess about outcomes while neglecting to examine carefully the process through which we achieve them. We rush to answers instead of asking questions. Reflection and relaxation. Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. Among them are : Valuing failure.

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Learning Knowledge Worker Exercise Problem 80

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? How long is the onboarding process? An instructor travels to your place of business to teach you how to apply your new features to your existing processes, one-on-one.

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Software Fundraising Training Train 313

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders. Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

A board matrix can be a powerful tool to point the selection process in positive directions. The categories that are represented should reflect qualities that directors bring to the board as well as characteristics that will enhance the organization’s growth and development. Tell a Compelling Story.

Mentoring 221

Mentoring Director Associations Professional 221

Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

With innovative association management software (AMS,) your staff can gather crucial member data all year long, streamlining your annual reporting process. W ith access to user-friendly reports , dashboards, and member – driven communications, you can transform your annual reporting process, making it member-centric.

Report 107

Report Tips Associations Advocacy 107

sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles. These questions could be centered around a large contribution that the organization received that they were not expecting, and if the organization is properly recording it.

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Relationship Practice Build Evaluation 70

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. Where is that information stored?

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Build Map Platform Integration 59

Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Still have questions about the importance of data hygiene? Cleaning your data can also improve its accuracy, helping to inform your decision-making process. At worst, it can provide conflicting outcomes, not ultimately reflecting the truth of what’s happening.” . But how can you start the process? .

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Associations Data Benefit Practice 136

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Learning Free Reflection Model 94

Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Searching for new technology can be a lengthy process for even the most organized association. Reflect on your old software and create a strategy for buying new tech by asking the following questions: . Is your organization ready to start the process of purchasing a new AMS? We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Tips Time Associations Software 131

Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

One question you can ask is: “ What impact do you want your organization to make ?” Consider additional questions such as “What programs and services are most effective?” Answering such questions will help leverage your staff, time, and resources. Bad data can also come from bad questions.

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Data Metrics Measure Goal 99

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you’re considering a new or inaugural workspace, consider these questions before making any decisions. This process begins at the level of next-door-neighbor and expands to include the surrounding geographic area. The post 6 Questions to Consider Before Selecting a New Workspace appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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Question NGO Government Model 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Some nonprofit staff members have expressed concerns about losing their sense of purpose.They anticipate that AI might reduce their job role to mere oversight of automated processes, stripping away the meaningful engagement that comes from hands-on creativity and a decline in job satisfaction.

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Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As such, the process presented in the book applies to all areas of your life,” shares the author. Hortense le Gentil Earlier this year, the author shared these additional insights with us: Question: What is the primary takeaway you hope business leaders will take away from your book?

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Voice Leadership Authoring Life 87