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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

January 5, 2022 by Beth Kanter Leave a Comment

Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning.  Our family has several New Year's rituals, including a nature hike.  This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. (Pictured above) Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In fact, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facilitation, Happy Healthy Nonprofit, Reflection, Resilience, Smart Nonprofit

Zoom Cameras On or Off?

September 2, 2021 by Beth Kanter 2 Comments

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective.  They published “Ten Rules Simple Rules for Meaningful Meetings.”  One of the science-based findings identified that online meetings get the same results as in-person meetings when everyone turns on their video cameras.  Now that we have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digital Wellness, Facilitation, Meeting Design, Remote Work, Virtual Facilitation

8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

August 17, 2021 by Beth Kanter Leave a Comment

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. A recent McKinsey survey suggests that 90% of organizations will adopt some version of the hybrid workplace. The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Hybrid meetings are where some participants participate remotely through a video conferencing platform like zoom, while the rest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facilitation, Online Meetings, Remote Work

Tips To Make Online Meetings Less Exhausting

May 15, 2020 by Beth Kanter 1 Comment

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme.Here's an overview the tips and resources I shared. Online Meeting Tips Don’t wing it alone It’s easy to wing meetings with no formalised planning or an agenda. According to Beth, a good meeting is based on good design. You can plan the topics, the minutes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facilitation, Meeting Design, Online Meetings, Remote Work, Virtual Facilitation

Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

April 8, 2020 by Beth Kanter 1 Comment

We are only about one month into the world's largest work from home experiment.  This means spending a big part of our day sitting in front of a screen that looks like the Brady Brunch. It has surfaced a new technology affliction:  Zoom Overload.  There are number of reasons we feel exhausted from zoom meetings as Jeremy Bailenson, Virtual Human Interaction Lab points out. It isn’t just the huge uptick in back-to-back virtual meetings we are hosting or attending, many times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digital Wellness, Facilitation, Online Meetings, Virtual Facilitation

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