I'm facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful. These skills are: self-management and attention training. That's the focus of one of the sessions - so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, … [Read more...]
Training Board Members As Social Media Ambassadors
Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on "Leading on Social Media." It was an interactive workshop and the content was on how to leverage senior leaders, board, and staff as champions on social channels. Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed … [Read more...]
What I Learned From @Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer of @MetMuseum
I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitate a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. But I also got an opportunity to finally hear the keynote speaker, Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer of the @MetMuseum in person. I've been fan for a long time, but never had the chance to meet or hear him in person. Sree is authentic, humble, and always making connections. When I asked for a … [Read more...]
Why Good Habit Formation Is Important for Nonprofits
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project that will launch next month. It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring. The approach tests a hypothesis that emerging leaders need to … [Read more...]
Nonprofits Need To Nurture the Next Generation of New Leaders
Flickr Photo by Wesley Fryer Note from Beth: This year I've been focusing more and more on leadership professional development in a networked world and finding myself working more and more with younger leaders in the nonprofit sector. Recently, I was chatting with Joan Garry, a consultant who works with current nonprofit leaders about the ways that nonprofits need to change in order to nurture the next generation of young leaders for the nonprofit sector. She had such a great insights … [Read more...]
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