Just imagine, your organization is humming along, donations are at par with your goals, your staff is happy and motivated, and there is genuine synergy among stakeholders. What if this good situation were to go bad? What if… you were to lose a major donor, sponsor, collaborator, or key individual? What if a negative story…
Category: Leadership
Is Your Board… Bored?
We've all experienced a rut. You fall in and it seems like all you do is spin your wheels in that proverbial ditch. It can happen with the best nonprofit boards as well. You know it’s happening when… You've been talking about revisiting your vision, mission, and values statements, for like… forever! When you've gone…
Balance
We all understand balance, it's yin & yang, light & dark, heavy & light, just enough stuff on both sides to keep the equilibrium. But, in the world of nonprofit leadership, do we really understand what that means? While, board & executive staff relationships fall on both sides of the fulcrum, all too frequently, they…
Leadership and the Courage to Follow
Yesterday, just for fun, I Google'd leadership and received a response of 506 million articles. Among these replies, I found a range of topics on leadership; they crossed areas covering a broad spectrum of styles, concepts, models, and characteristics. There were also articles which covered strategies, tactics, mentoring, and visioning; a lifetime of self-improvement reading…
Leadership – Check Your Ego at the Door
I've had the opportunity to collaborate with, work for, and advise many nonprofits. There's a big cultural difference in the dynamics of a nonprofit vs. a for profit business. It's part of what I really like and it's part of what I really dislike. There's just something dynamic about a group of diverse minds turning…