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#Ideas17: Take Risks and Create "Unmistakable Work": Associations Now - 0 views

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  • We become indispensable and invaluable to our organization because what we provide goes so far beyond bullet points or a job description or a job title,” Rao said. “When nobody does what you do in the way you do it … the competition and all the standard metrics by which you’re typically measured no longer matter, because the factors that distinguish your work are so personal that nothing or nobody can replicate it. You’re not the best at what you do, you’re the only.”
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 Mar 17
     
    Nice summary by Alex Beall, Associations Now, of Srini Rao's opening remarks at 2017 conference. Take risks, act on crazy ideas, make it yours, not a replication of best practice.
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LawsonCG-Delegate Effectively - 0 views

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  • Don't dismiss delegation as an outmoded concept that's part of the "command-and-control" model of years past. You may not believe in rigid, hierarchical organizations. But even the founders of flatter, more collaborative young businesses must ensure that every employee can acquire higher-level skills and duties.
  • Delegation is not task assignment. You're not simply assigning work to employees that falls within their job duties and responsibilities. To delegate, you must give someone the responsibility and authority to do something that's normally part of your jo
  • Delegation involves three elements: responsibility authority accountability
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  • Beware of giving the following excuses to avoid delegating: "It takes too long to explain." "No one on my staff is capable of doing it." "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself." "My people are already overworked. I can't dump anything more on them."
  • Step 1: Choose What to Delegate
  • Step 2: Choose the Right Person to Delegate to
  • Step 3: Communicate What You Want Done
  • WHAT do you want the employee to do? WHY did you choose them to do it?
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 Mar 17
     
    Karen Lawson Consulting writing for Edward Lowe foundation identifies three elements of delegating: giving someone a responsibility that's not part of their job description but yours, authority, and accountability
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"With every action a character takes, it has an echo" - Mary Review - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 May 17 - No Cached
  • Junot Díaz’s Drown and Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!—both of those collections, from the late ’90s—and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” which I still think is one of the most perfect short stories ever written.
  • Zora Neale Hurston and Mules and Men. In that book, she writes, “Mouths don’t empty themselves unless the ears are sympathetic and knowing.”
  • And this tends to turn into the idea that writers of color are in some sort of “identity corner,” whereas white writers just get to write about life. I will never forget one night in workshop when the professor asked our brilliant mutual friend Brit Bennett to explain what her story had to say about the black experience. Like her story had to be some after-school special, either harrowing or uplifting, just because her characters were black.
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  • In general, there’s a hesitancy to use “black” as a descriptor, which either points to a widespread anxiety about race or a subconscious belief that the descriptor “black” is pejorative. Or, maybe a third option—which is that you can’t say “black” at the beginning without the average white person tuning out immediately. I hope that’s not true; it might be.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 May 17
     
    Interview with Angela Flournoy where she recommends three short stories as the best she has ever read by Junot Diaz (Drown), Edwidge Danticant (Krik? Krak!) and James Baldwin's (Sonny's Blues).
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Trends Over Time in Virtual Volunteering - NTEN - 0 views

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  • Today’s ability to oh-so-easily see and hear each other online is a double-edged sword: it can make electronic communication more personable, but it can also inject offline prejudices evoked by how someone looks or sounds.
  • Now, a lot of online communication is done synchronously, or nearly so: volunteers are online together, at the same time, talking together, and staff supporting those volunteers is often seeing their volunteering activities in real time.
  • People do not communicate primarily via e-mail anymore; they now talk together via online social networks and in the comments section of blogs, photo-sharing sites, and video-sharing sites. Some people send far more SMS messages than email messages.
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  • they can and do engage in service just about anywhere, not only with a laptop, but with a tablet or smart phone.
  • The most welcomed change in the last few years is that using the Internet to communicate with, engage, and support volunteers has been adopted in one way or another by a majority of nonprofit organizations in the USA. What hasn’t changed is that there are still thousands of organizations resisting any use of the Internet to support and involve volunteers, with thousands of other organizations involving online volunteers while still not understand that the involvement; I volunteered mostly online for a regional office of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 2010 and 2011, yet I would bet that office would say “no” to the question, “Do you engage in virtual volunteering?”
  • the elements for success in virtual volunteering are still largely the same as they have been for the last 20 years. What hasn’t changed? The importance of creating volunteering tasks that have real impact, of frequent communications with volunteers, of showing volunteers what impact their contributions have had, and of showing senior management at an organization what impact virtual volunteering is having. I’m relatively sure these recommendations will never change, even as technology does.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17
     
    article by Jayne Cravens, February 20, 2015 on virtual volunteering moving from asynchronous to synchronous interactions, virtual identities including pictures, lack of recognition by some nonprofits of how they are using virtual volunteers.
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How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable - 0 views

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  • They’ve been sold on meditation as a simple way to bear the unbearable.
  • In other words, if you’re stressed out, you’re not working hard enough on your personal focus strategy. You’re letting the team down.
  • the marketing of mindfulness as a solution to work stress and life balance rather than the complex spiritual approach to living it is meant to be.
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  • Rather than a difficult but easily accessible way to free your mind and body, mindfulness has been rebranded as a kind of gentle harness to help us heel to the corporate leg.
  • Mindfulness is a way of living, not a substitute for taking action.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Aug 17
     
    a view on how mindfulness/meditation is used to manipulate us into complying with dysfunctional or unbearable workplaces
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