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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

sgEngage

Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions. Take it out.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?”

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Unconscious Whiteness in Philanthropy: Week 1 Reflections

John Kenyon

Still, all-white spaces provide an important place to ask questions and learn without unintentionally harming People of Color. . – All-white spaces have a plac e. Multi-racial organizing is needed for any kind of long-term change in racial justice work. Such spaces also help prevent putting the burden of education on POC. – Hope.

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Salesforce.org CEO Rob Acker’s Year-End Reflections

Saleforce Nonprofit

At the end of last year, I reflected on the idea of resilience. For me, it starts with a smile, empathy, asking questions, and active listening. The post Salesforce.org CEO Rob Acker’s Year-End Reflections appeared first on Salesforce.org. I share this to invite a conversation and hopefully tap into the collective of this team.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.

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What’s next for 2022? 12 questions to help you get ready for the year ahead

Charity Village

This year’s edition of Big Cheese Coaching’s annual “12 Questions” marks my 10th year of sharing this annual reflection guide. Some new questions for the times, and as always, some familiar ones too. The aim of these questions is to […]. The post What’s next for 2022?