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Employee Surveys: Much More Opportunity Than You Think
Online, you’ll find many recipes for employee surveys- “The 6 Steps to Great Employee Surveys…” etc. A quick scan of these…
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The Role of the Interim Chief Executive
A client was recently appointed as an Interim ED of her organization, while awaiting her Board’s decision about the permanent…
What’s The Right Amount? ED and CEO Comp
8 Factors that Should Guide Executive Director and CEO Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations Having been asked about this by clients…
If Strategic Planning is Too Slow, Even “Dead,” What Should We Do?
We’ve had a few years now of heavy criticism of strategic planning, in both the profit and nonprofit sectors. This…
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How Should We Measure Success?
At this writing, a Google search on nonprofit impact returned “About 85,500,000 results.” There’s a whole new industry of Impact…
Board Membership, How To – Part 4, Winding Down, Signing Off
Revisit these items: To what extent did I: ____ Demonstrate that this is an opportunity for me to serve ____…
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Board Membership, How To – Part 3, Assuming Committee Leadership
Talk to Everyone That’s the current committee members, the outgoing committee chair, the Board leadership, the ED/CEO, appropriate staff, and…
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Board Membership, How To – Part 2, After the Honeymoon
Be Positive and Optimistic Mission-driven organizations need to be intentional about optimism, and seeing the world as a set of…
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Board Membership, How To – Part 1, Joining & the Honeymoon Period
Suggested Goals: Set Your Intentions Learn Establish a positive brand for yourself Build relationships and rapport Get Clear On Your…
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Who Should Do What?
Principles for Distributing Responsibility between Staff, Management, and Board Board members are temporary, part-time volunteers with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.…
The Two Essential Outcomes of Strategic Work
There are two outcomes of strategic work (regardless of what it is called). The first, Defining a Path Forward, is…
How Animal Welfare Organizations Develop
Over the past two decades, a dramatic shift has taken place in the field of community animal welfare, protection, and…