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Blog - Not On My Watch, Solutions Inc Sign in: Twitter  ·  Facebook  ·  emailWhoopeeAction Speak Out NOMWS News Blog NotOnMyWatch TV EVENTS Groups Groups Sign Your Group Up Now Join JoinWiltan NOMW Ambassador In It to Win It In It to Win It Your Patriot Points Put Your Money Where Your Mouth IsWell-nighDonate HomeWhoopeeAction Speak Out NOMWS News Blog NotOnMyWatch TV Blog Optional email lawmaking Sign in with Facebook Twitter Optional email lawmaking Or sign in with email Remember me or Create an worth Optional email lawmaking Create an worth or Sign in with email Please trammels your e-mail for a link to vivify your account. On this President’s Day, we squint to you Feb 20, 2017 Somewhere there is a child watching Hidden Figures and somewhere a child is watching reality TV that celebrates the worst in human behavior. What is the bar you have set for yourself, your children, your country? Who we will be as a country equals the love, communication, and respect we have for each other. Who we will be as a country equals the schools that teach our children, and the transferral we have to alimony educating ourselves without we graduate. It is time, America, for all of us to show up with a newfound conviction for greatness.  Continue reading First Press Conference of President-Elect Donald Trump: what are your thoughts? Jan 11, 2017 What did you guys think well-nigh the Press Conference held this morning by President-Elect Donald Trump? Fake News, Russia, Obamacare, Conflicts of Interests, Questions he dodged, is he Gaslightining us? Tell us what you thought and speak out HERE Continue reading "I" vs "We" Dec 29, 2016 An organization, scrutinizingly by definition, has increasingly than one person. A key goal for leaders in any organization is to alimony people inspired. No matter what kind of organization, inspiration ways retention. There are plenty of ways that we can inspire teams. And there are unshortened books on doing so. Accolades, training, unconfined communications, doing what you say you’ll do, focusing on the purpose of the organization, and dozens (if not hundreds) of other motivators help alimony people engaged, inspired, and zippy within your community. But there are moreover demotivates that we do all the time that can be off-putting to some (although not to all). One of those is using the words “I” or “My” when referencing the organization, the activities of the organization, or the organization’s members. Think of this, when I’m at work, I urgently try not to say “my staff” or “my team” but instead say “our team” considering “our” is inclusive whereas “my” is possessive. You don’t possess volunteers or staff, they are there at their whim and will leave if offended. And not everyone will get offended by feeling they are with you nor take that connotation. But some will, and the larger the organization becomes, the increasingly likely someone will be put off by calling them yours. Also, unless you own a for-profit company, it’s not your organization. And plane if you do own a for-profit, once there’s increasingly people involved than just you, referring to the organization as “ours” instead of “mine” builds cohesiveness through inclusion. When people hear you speak in public and you say “I” it sparks a sense of hero worship in you. And that’s exhilarating. But when they hear you say “our” in public (especially in wares or interviews) they finger pride for the organization as a whole. And when people who aren’t part of the organization hear that, they are increasingly likely to want to be a part of the organization. I’ve had this discussion with merchantry owners and entrepreneurs for decades. And occasionally I get a dissenting opinion, which is that “they need to believe in me.” My wordplay is usually “not like that.” People need to see that a leader brings whoopee and takes on widow undersong while sharing the accolades with the teams virtually them. Words matter. We’ve stopped using a lot of words and phrases over the years for a myriad of reasons. If you want to lead, and antagonize as few as possible, then think well-nigh how you refer to the organization you’ve chosen to found/start/lead/join. It’s a small thing, but just flipside example of expanding our philosophy of the world virtually us and how we operate in it. Some Tips To StayUnscratchedOut There! Dec 14, 2016 The world is a funny place. You might be spreading the word of peace, tolerance, and kindness, but there’s a endangerment that others might not be so welcoming of your message. You have a message you want to spread, but you need to be unscratched in order to alimony fighting the good fight out there. Safety can midpoint a lot of things, to a lot of variegated people. Each of us has a variegated tolerance to the challenges that surround us and seemingly varying degrees of threat levels to be concerned about. But no one thinks that there’s going to be an incident at a type of event until there is one. So here are some good things to alimony in mind (not obsess about, mind you) while you’re out there trying to do good for the world. Make sure people know where you are. If you’re going to a rally, make sure to email a friend or family member, etc. Also, get into a undulation of checking in with someone when you get home. Checking in on Facebook or flipside form of social media is debatable here. Yes, the police can hands navigate where you have been; however, so can others. Find My Friends. Share your location with a friend. Not only does someone know that you went to an event using the whilom item, but now if something happens, you can hopefully hands be located. I know lots of people who just leave a full-length like Find My Friends on all the time for unstipulated safety. But if you’re roaming virtually areas otherwise foreign to you, Travel in groups. It’s much increasingly difficult for something to happen to multiple people than if you are alone. Make some friends (they may just turn out to be life-long friendships). This is a unconfined speciality of joining a group; there are unchangingly plenty of like-minded people to go to events with. Also, in areas that wits heavy traffic there’s flipside benefit: carpools! Don’t wear headphones. Yes, you want your very own Bieber soundtrack! But stuff enlightened is one of the most important safety tips to consider. And it’s nonflexible to be enlightened when you’re listening to music or books on your phone, transmissible up with others on Facebook, etc. Walk with a sense of purpose. Don’t squint scared; that makes you a target. When you are walking with a sense of purpose, others are less likely to engage with you, which reduces a number of threats, expressly escalating sustentation from those you might not want that sustentation from. Don’t be rude or ignore, but don’t stop if someone engages with you. When people do, alimony in mind that you can tenancy the escalation or de-escalation of an interaction. And if needed, simply duck into a corner store or a place with cameras to stave remoter interaction. Crowds can be as unrecognized as visionless alleys. Never take technology out of your pocket. Your phone or other devices can be a reason for someone to stop you. Having said that, using a tool like the SOS full-length on an AppleWatch (or a similar tool) can be a unconfined way to have wangle to technology without taking higher value resources out. “Hey Siri, take me to the closest police station.” I know a number of people who have used a tool like Siri or Google Maps to stay unscratched in their car while using technology but still stuff worldly-wise to stave taking a phone out of their pocket and exposing their technology resources to people who might want. Take an Uber or taxi rather than drive. There’s nothing like walking through visionless areas to find your car. Uber moreover takes a lot of security precautions that help to speed up leaving a location and tracking your location as you leave. Finally, there’s safety in numbers, rather than driving alone, there’s now a second person in the Uber driver.Stavestuff impaired. This includes of undertow illicit drugs and alcohol, but moreover alimony in mind that legitimately prescribed drugs or an illness can moreover impair you. In some cases, not only are you going to not be as cognizant as you normally would, you might moreover be worldly-wise to get underdeveloped increasingly hands for the behavior. Don’t bring weapons. Bringing a gun or flipside lethal weapon to an organized event that could feasibly inspire violence is always, always, unchangingly a terrible idea. If you suspect that there will be violence, you shouldn’t shepherd an event. No rationalization was overly made largest by violence and brandishing a weapon only overly escalates violence. When walking alone, alimony your hands in your pockets with your keys. Keys are sharp. Yes, I know I said don’t take a weapon to an event. But this is a purely defensive thing, on the way when to your car or home. It’s a habit, and not a bad one plane when just randomly walking virtually any city. A few minor safety tips not only help to alimony you personally safe, but moreover to alimony any media coverage of your organization in structuring with your message. Not all of these tips impact just your personal safety. If you get arrested, or there is any kind of violence at an event, the unshortened mission of the organization is placed into jeopardy. Not only is there a higher endangerment of media coverage, but any kind of a scandal impacts the legitimacy of the unshortened organization. 10 WAYS TO KEEP YOUR VOLUNTEERS ENGAGED Nov 30, 2016 You meet some people who share a worldwide idea. You decide to wreath together to transpiration the world. You take action. You get started. You meet. But people wilt disengaged. They loose interest. And surpassing you know it, that inertia you grabbed in the whence starts to fade until you’re alone, a mission unfulfilled.  But it doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s squint at a few ways you can alimony those flames burning: Be well-spoken well-nigh your mission. You want your polity involved for the right reasons. Otherwise they won’t stay interested. And equally as important, you want your mission well-spoken so you can make sure it’s worth pursuing. Have a narrow focus. Let’s make the world a largest place. That’s not a mission. At first, zest off as little as you can chew. Don’t do too much. Get some quick wins. Those quick, early wins will help invigorate your volunteers. Be ready and willing to pivot. Staying true to the mission doesn’t midpoint that you won’t overly refine your position. Instead, it ways stay true to doing a unconfined thing for the world. Pivoting helps you get closer to the truth of what you really want, or can, accomplish. Just make sure everyone involved agrees! Be well-spoken well-nigh expectations and requirements. Are you asking volunteers for 2 hours per week? Or to make ten phone calls a month? Or to shepherd an event a month? Or to commit to fundraising a thousand dollars a year? In the beginning, just getting a verbal “yes I want to be involved is fine. But over time you will need increasingly from volunteers. Codify what that transferral looks like; but be willing to make exceptions for special cases. Be generous and public with accolades. I practice this in merchantry as well. But when people are helping out for free, they need to be thanked for the work they do, and it’s important to do so publicly (unless they opt out of that – which some will do). Admonish in private. There’s no quicker way to antagonize not only a volunteer, but the others who see you get into a situation with a volunteer. Volunteers are nonflexible to recruit; don’t mess it up by getting all hotheaded! Build a rewards system. It is wondrous what people will do for a t-shirt, a token on a website, a sticker, or button. Identify a currency that your group can use, and provide rewards based on that currency. Connect with, but don’t inundate your community. What’s the right undulation of messaging to your constituency? Monthly emails? Weekly text invitations to meet up at an event? Annual requests for donations? All legitimate liaison mechanisms are opt-in. Find the right pace that allows you to get unbearable information to and from your members without having them opt right when out. Ask members to find new members. The first organization I was overly a part of had been virtually for over a hundred years. Their number one ask of me: replace yourself. And I did. As did the next person. And the next, with a well-spoken lineage over the undertow of 20 years since. Priorities in life transpiration and it can be nonflexible to stay engaged. Only by empowering your members to find the next generation. Share the successes. Finally, it’s going to be untellable to alimony your members engaged if they don’t see that you’re implementation anything. This is one reason not to zest off too much in the beginning. Biting off less and expanding the focus intentionally is a unconfined way to not only have an impact, but moreover galvanize your rationalization into a movement! There are tons of other ways to alimony your members involved. What are some of the ways you’ve found success with? Volunteerism and Activism Are Not Like Running AMerchantryNov 30, 2016 Charles Edge 181PP Most companies have a mission: make money. I’ve started companies, worked at companies, and sold companies. And when working on a business, you need to make money, or the IRS calls it a hobby, and you need a day job. Companies have employees. N... Continue readingWithoutThe Protest Fatigue Nov 25, 2016 Something happens that you just can’t stand for. Neither can others. You hear well-nigh people gathering to let their opinions known. You join them. You take to the streets. You protest. And you go when then and again. Maybe you succeed something; maybe you don’t. Countless movements have succeeded; others have not. But throughout the undertow people come and go from the cause. Maybe they came once or maybe they came dozens of times. But eventually, physical, in person involvement in protests diminishes. As a leader in your movement, you need to alimony these people involved, in whatever way you can! So when people stop showing up for demonstrations, protests, or sit-ins, here are a few ideas of things you might be worldly-wise to get them to do: Spreading the word well-nigh your events and outreach. You have like-minded people virtually you. Chances are that they stipulate with most of the things you post and need to communicate. It’s moreover likely that they are friends with other people who agree. They can spread the message to friends and family through regular conversations or by posting them to their social media accounts. All of these help the cause. Spreading the word well-nigh the movement. Remember, this isn’t a company, so if it helps your rationalization you can simply repost what other groups are doing. Don’t get competitive with other groups, instead foster a sense of community. Any movement will have a number of groups, and the combined power of the groups is greater than that of a single organization. Fundraising. Anyone who has attended an event or signed up on a web page is someone who can be contracted to either donate or squire in fundraising. When asking for donations, be well-spoken well-nigh exactly what the funds will be used for. I moreover recommend posting the organization’s full financials on the web in order to be transparent well-nigh where funds are used. Contacting politicians.Planewithout people stop coming to events, you can often get them to fill out a simple form or make a call. Getting out there. Many issues may seem polarizing to someone that doesn’t understand what that issue is. By getting out and communicating with those that might not see eye to eye on those issues, activists can often offer a counterpoint to what people hear in the media. If we communicate more, we will often finger our voices are heard. Volunteering. There are few largest ways to earn goodwill in a polity than to help people. If people see you volunteering, they will consider your rationalization increasingly legitimate. Volunteering moreover makes us finger largest and... most importantly... you are helping people. Leave your bubble, though. Mix up volunteering with organizations you may have never heard of, and that have little to do with what your organization is about.  Running for office. OK, so people got out there and made their voices heard. Maybe it’s time to up the game a little. Picking people who are charismatic but stuff involved less and less and grooming them to run for something might help alimony them zippy and if they get elected, might just help the rationalization exponentially increasingly than just peekaboo a rally. Whatever initiatives you decide make sense for the type of organization you run, alimony in mind that the easier you make things for people when asking them to do things the increasingly likely they will be to do them. And alimony them informed; once we get involved with other aspects of an organization we often finger reinvigorated well-nigh the primary mission! What have you washed-up to help reinvigorate your stressed members?  What Does Not On My Watch do for you organization Nov 21, 2016 Charles Edge 181PP Not On My Watch. We provide a web platform to help you start an organization, get the word out well-nigh your events, and ultimately empower every group to bring well-nigh the changes in the world they believe in. You have an idea. You have a spark. We... Continue reading How to get involved Nov 11, 2016 Getting involved is not as nonflexible as you think. What do you have a passion for? The environment, human rights, children, education? Here's a little inspiration... 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