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Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions

Idea Architects

Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? Too often strategy conversations are anything but strategic. Participants bring their past experiences and present expectations to the strategy effort.

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Tapping Into Attendee Expertise For Community Service Projects

Associations Now

The program is taught by JSM attendees—mostly statistics professors from colleges and universities—who volunteer their time to provide the instruction over the course of three days. In addition to giving local educators a refresher on statistics fundamentals, these volunteers also provide suggestions for lesson plans and teaching strategies.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Timeless Questions, Timely Tactics

Idea Architects

And, of course, that is one of the reasons why strategic plans often do not yield the commitment, action, or results they are meant to produce. Over the years, Ive developed a dozen questions to draw on during strategy conversations, ones that while timeless in nature almost always can generate new and timely responses. Oct 2003 (1).

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Facilitation Friday #22: Conversation Detours, Not Roadblocks

Idea Architects

Strategy sessions are about the future. Ill be leading an open registration full-day course on The Art of. Oct 2003 (1). Sep 2003 (2). Aug 2003 (1). May 2003 (2). Apr 2003 (1). Mar 2003 (1). Feb 2003 (3). Jan 2003 (2). Explore the future sustainability of the practice.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth Kanter

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2018 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman in 2016. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy. Year in Review.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth Kanter

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2017 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Year in Review. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.6.20

Reid All About it

This online course equips association executives and other nonprofit leaders with best practices for making ethical decisions. Note: This course fulfills the new ethics requirement for CAE applications and renewals, which is why I’m attending. Lessons Learned from Toronto’s 2003 SARS Outbreak. . . – The Ethical Nonprofit.

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