Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

63% are worried about the security risks posed by AI 58% are worried about this really steep learning curve that their entire team has to go through to understand how to use generative AI The last point highlights a perceived challenge that, in practice, becomes less daunting once users engage with tools like Copilot.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The most important skill nonprofit leaders can learn and teach their teams is to know when to use AI and when to use human skills. This process begins with learning technical skills such as “prompting,” which involves constructing the right questions to ask generative AI tools in order to get useful answers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Though recommendations from third parties may help you narrow down the wide selection of nonprofit CRMs available, only you and your team know what’s best for your organization. Which tasks are slowing your team down the most? Whether they’re remote or all under one roof, your team should be able to get help fast when they need it.

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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? How much and what types of support they must work on their burnout immunity skills.

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Media Cause

APRIL 29, 2021

The MC team has put together some of the books, websites, training programs, podcasts, and organizations we turn to in our daily lives, whether we’re working on building emotional skills like resilience and compassion, or struggling to navigate the challenges of stress, anxiety, and depression. Day #1: Ten Percent Happier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Rituals can also be used by teams in the workplace to improve effectiveness. I learned a lot about Giving Circles from Philanthropy Together and am presently serving on the advisory committee for the WeGive Summit and my current work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Greater Giving Summit team. That is twenty years!

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work. Passing the CFRE exam demonstrates you’ve done the work necessary and have the skills to develop relationships with donors, increase volunteer engagement, and lead a team of skilled fundraisers.

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

Each team has a weekly team call with multiple opportunities for volunteers to step up to be coaches for newer team members. Peer-to-peer texting keeps people plugged into opportunities within each team and is a primary source of information for volunteers. The upshot: this isn’t a transactional relationship.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team. You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Peer coaching can be formal, informal or a combination of both.

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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.”

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Thanks for the support, team. . The hope in sharing part of my story is to give program insight to applicants, share the immense value to supporters of the program, and give thanks to my incredibly supportive team. . I’m eager for the day I’ll be ready to carry weight and help create change with this team!”

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The company is committed to motivating young girls to build STEM skills that will help them become leaders of tomorrow. The Girls4Tech programs are organized by regional coordinators and they are the ones who encourage employees to serve as role models and mentors, teaching the foundations of payments technology in fun, engaging ways.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

At this year’s bbcon, the Blackbaud Institute was thrilled to welcome Tim Kachuriak to give a presentation on what he knows best: how to optimize your team with data. Kachuriak and the NextAfter team conducted a survey among 500 nonprofit executives, consultants, managers, and practitioners. Most nonprofit jobs seem to be a dead end.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

And, that means having an essential set of skills that includes collaboration, agility and foresight. Plus, for your team members to feel safe, ensure you foster these work conditions: That it is permissible to make mistakes. Team members are openly willing to help each other. Team members feel free to be themselves.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Getting development teams and their nonprofit boards to work in alignment can be challenging. Even if your development team and your board work well together, there is probably more that the executive director, development director, and board chair can do to ensure that the organization is taking advantage of everyone’s strengths.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Juni Felix, a member of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab teaching team and an expert in behavior change shares how to create effective systems using the science of behavior design to elevate your donor engagement game. Behavior design strategies can help. Listen to this episode. Listen to this episode. Listen to this episode.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 10, 2015

Working on a team with dedicated humanitarians like VisionLink’s Software Developer, Aaron Priebe, is a honor. To further improve the livelihood and success of older girls, Aaron's wife has taken on the rewarding task of teaching them how to style hair. Aaron and his wife recently visited Arequipa, Peru. Interested in learning more?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

When she’s not representing political prisoners, journalists, and victims of mass atrocities around the world, she co-teaches the Human Rights course at Columbia Law School, and serves as co-founder and President of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which aims to advance justice through accountability for human rights abuses around the world.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

That’s one of the best things about volunteering; there are a variety of ways for individuals to make an impact according to their interests and skills. Let’s take a look at some of the different volunteer types to give you a better understanding of where volunteers come from and what types of skills they bring to the table.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Behind the scenes, there’s a Salesforce.org team that dreamed big and delivered on Trailhead to the tune of six-figure results. Collaborate: What teams inside and outside of your organization will you enroll in your vision? You may have even earned some badges. The challenge was to meet the needs of multiple audiences.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team. You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Peer coaching can be formal, informal or a combination of both.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This offers you the ability to learn a new skill and gives you the experience of completing this skill in an actual demo environment. These teach you skills and knowledge about a specific topic with carefully curated modules and projects to streamline your learning experience. . Reach out to our team of experts!!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

If you struggle with these paradoxes: How can I express my individuality and be a team player? It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. How do I balance work and life? How can I take care of myself while supporting others? How can I manage the core business while innovating for the future?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The best way to entice volunteers is by creating a personalized, flexible, and engaging team atmosphere. Provide volunteers with valuable skills. Helping volunteers gain new skills is a great way to provide them with value in exchange for their time. How your organization accomplishes this task is up to you.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 8, 2019

If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team. You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Peer coaching can be formal, informal or a combination of both.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Your participants get the chance to showcase their unique skills–whether it’s singing, dancing, or any other talent they’d like to show off. Participants can pay an entry fee for their team to compete for a grand prize. Offer prizes for winning participants to add a little competitive spirit to the event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If you struggle with these paradoxes: How can I express my individuality and be a team player? It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. How do I balance work and life? How can I take care of myself while supporting others? How can I manage the core business while innovating for the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

I shifted a lot of my content and advice to focus on creating a life-work balance when you work remotely and how to create a more connected virtual team as well as digital wellness. I have been delivering virtual masterclasses and helping to develop their capacity building programs in digital skills.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

In just thirty minutes, we will identify the “how” and the “why” questions your data is asking, find out how your program data can help you showcase your impact, and teach you how technology can help you visualize that impact. Opportunities for Professional Development.

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