Productivity

GA Skills For Creating A Data Driven Culture: Secondary Dimensions

Published Wed, Mar 20, 19 at 4:57 pm | Updated Thu, Mar 21, 19 at 5:23 pm

One of the most popular sections of the data driven culture session I co-presented at the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference was how to modify a HiPPO culture. If you aren’t already familiar with the acronym, HiPPO stands for: Highest Paid Person’s Opinion A common challenge for those entrusted with gathering, analyzing, and reporting data is creating trust and buy-in among those in executive leadership positions. Fortunately, there are some super easy tools you can use inside Google Analytics to begin building that trust by confirming or refuting “conventional wisdom.” One such tool … Read more

It’s Like Excel On Steroids

Published Thu, Feb 28, 19 at 2:00 am | Updated Thu, Feb 28, 19 at 3:18 pm

Most of us are using Excel to manage any number of things, right? *everyone nods in agreement* I’d like to invite you to try my go-to spreadsheet software: Airtable. You guys, this thing is like Excel on steroids (in a good way).  I use it exclusively to manage advertising campaigns, editorial calendars, speaking engagements, and more. Here are just a few of the reasons why I love it so much: It is in the cloud and it is easily shareable. You don’t have to worry about which version of the spreadsheet you’re … Read more

How to “Deep Work”

Published Fri, Nov 2, 18 at 1:19 pm

While many of us know what we want to achieve, it’s often derailed because of numerous factors. Some might be external (caused by others), but I’ve found many are internal (caused by myself). It’s one thing to “get things done” that satisfies whoever you report to, but it’s a completely different thing to accomplish tasks AND have the time to build a better, stronger version of your organization or project. In other words, how do you take massive action (as Tony Robins famously declares) to execute and contain the essential work, but build … Read more

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