During the summer, I've been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax and ease people into a group meeting or learning situation. It is important to build in time for an icebreaker whether it is a staff training, board retreat, or a workshop with people coming together for the first … [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...]
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...]
Trainer's Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience
Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities - going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture - is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your … [Read more...]
The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout
Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp, an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. Since the theme this year was "Change Making," I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit, co-authored … [Read more...]
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