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How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone
I have been reading Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at NYU. The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. He describes the “Ludic Loop,” a cycle of repeating the same activity because every so often you get a reward. The term was coined by Natasha Schull, also on the faculty at NYU and an expert in addiction. Slot machines … [Read more...]
Trainer’s Notebook: Online Interaction Tools To Engage Your Audience in the Room and Beyond
This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. These were workshops at Cause Camp, Global Giving, and the Hartford Foundation. My instructional needs were simple: Question/Answer back channel where participants in the room or faraway could post questions Flash polls Online versions of assessments for participants that would … [Read more...]
How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space
In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout, my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit's physical office space. When nonprofits invest in creating physical spaces that inspire employees to show up for work, staff is more engaged, productive, happy, and healthy. There are … [Read more...]
How To Stop Your Nonprofit's After Hours Email Habit
I recently taught several leadership development workshops at the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership based on my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. One of the workshops was focused on technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace, more specifically how to avoid collaboration overload. Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other online collaborative technology tools that have, … [Read more...]
What is the best way to deliver professional development to nonprofit emerging leaders?
Note: This guest post was published on the Packard Foundation OE Blog reflects what was learned from designing and delivering leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. I am republishing it here with an invitation to join us on April 6 for a webinar with leading talent managers from Acumen, Bridgespan, and The Mission Continues and learn how to embed a culture of learning and leadership within your organization and to visit the new Emerging Leaders Playbook for curated resources … [Read more...]
Emerging Leaders Need More than Leadership Development
Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “Emerging Leaders Playbook,” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development. We learned a lot from this project about how best support … [Read more...]
Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload
What is Collaborative Overload? The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “Collaborative Overload” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. As nonprofits become networked and different departments work … [Read more...]
Trainer's Notebook: Tips for Good Openings
I've just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. Wake's Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women's rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. We worked with a network of women's rights NGOs located throughout Latin America and Guatemala who traveled to Antigua … [Read more...]
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