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  • How will I know? An evaluation mindset

    To the tune of “How will I know” by Whitney Houston There’s a course I know, it’s the one I dreamed upWorkbooks and slides, bullet points I really love, mmm-hmmTime—IContinue reading “How will I know? An evaluation mindset”

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  • What is the recipe to help people learn, remember, and take action?

    “Learning new things for learning’s sake, without actually doing something new or different or better, is simply another form of entertainment.” – Endurance Learning’s Training Activity Cookbook by Brian WashburnContinue reading “What is the recipe to help people learn, remember, and take action?”

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  • Thinking out loud about learning across time

    How do we apply lessons from the past to make progress in the future when things in the present keep evolving? I’ve been thinking about this in the context ofContinue reading “Thinking out loud about learning across time”

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  • Show and tell: Projects designed to solve challenges

    Summer is a great time to slow down and take stock of what we’ve been working on. Partners come to us with design challenges centered on how to help peopleContinue reading “Show and tell: Projects designed to solve challenges”

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  • Truth be told, I have never worked in the corporate learning and development (L&D, as insiders call it) sector to know for sure how nonprofit learning differs. I have, however,Continue reading “A conversation about the Nonprofit Learning Ecosystem”

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  • People who manage people: Let’s set supervisors up for success

    A free webinar on June 1 from 10am-11pm Pacific on how we can set people who manage people up for greater success The staff turnover that has happened over theContinue reading “People who manage people: Let’s set supervisors up for success”

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  • Just don’t say the “S” word

    Strategy. I said it. In one project, we danced around the word avoiding it valiantly because we didn’t want to scare anyone off. In two other projects, it became clearContinue reading “Just don’t say the “S” word”

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  • Lessons from a camel

    Lessons from a camel

    And other reflections from Morocco Everything they say about time away is true. In March I was deeply fortunate to spend two weeks in Morocco with a group of collegeContinue reading “Lessons from a camel”

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  • Learning styles are a myth… and why it matters to nonprofits

    There’s so much magic at the intersection of adult learning and nonprofits. We can unlock our teams’ full potential when we look at how to reduce the information dump, tap intoContinue reading “Learning styles are a myth… and why it matters to nonprofits”

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  • Boards ready to serve

    Boards ready to serve

    On any pre-pandemic day, there were board members serving any nonprofit that might benefit from a clearer sense of their role. Two years of Zoom meetings challenged the best runContinue reading “Boards ready to serve”

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