Communicating Better with Researchers in 5 Questions – by Jennifer Filla
(Note from The Scoop Editors: great article on effective communication from a fundraiser's perspective)
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone that felt like an argument or debate, but it turned out you were both saying the same thing, just differently? I had one supervisor where this happened quite a bit before we realized what was happening. Many times the very skills that make great frontline fundraisers and great fundraising researchers translate into two very different languages!