Board of Directors
Unlocking the Power of a Consent Agenda in the Nonprofit Board Room
A consent agenda when used correctly can be a great tool for engaging a nonprofit board in important converstations during board meetings.
A consent agenda when used correctly can be a great tool for engaging a nonprofit board in important converstations during board meetings.
As nonprofit leaders, a strategic planning process can either wear us out and waste our time, or help us streamline priorities and increase our impact.
Your organization’s structure is one key part of building your capacity for impact. The right organizational structure at both the board and staff team levels
A few key leadership development steps can help you have more on your nonprofit team who achieve big goals.
What is your organization doing to intentionally hone staff skills in areas that are organization gaps? Do you know what your gap areas are?
What makes a great leader? The answers to this question vary greatly. However there is a framework for for considering context specific skills that afford the competencies that an organization needs in its leadership.
John Kotter, Harvard Professor Emeritus, is considered a thought leader on change management. Kotter notes that 70% of organization change attempts fail. We’ve all been there. How do we as leaders become the 30% who create change that sticks? Real change requires a shift in organization culture and cultural change doesn’t happen without a lot repetition and providing rationales for the change so that core beliefs and values change too. That means not letting up.
In the non-profit sector, managing through objectives brings us to the world of logic models and theories of change. Those are the tools we use most often to create the measurable objectives we deem most likely to drive our mission forward. Embedded in any logic model are a number of priorities that must be managed.