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You can evaluate your organization leadership dynamics using my Board-Leadership Barometer and identify where you think your board-staff leadership dynamic is today. Then, commit to improving in 2023.
With all that’s been happening and the rapidly shifting news cycles over the last five years, you may not have noticed a few trends in the corporate world that can have a positive impact on your organization. Here are just four insights from a recent study Bower & Co. conducted on corporate trends in social and environmental impact and what they mean for nonprofits and associations.
With financial storm clouds brewing, many leaders are about to do the same thing to their organizations that those floodwaters did to the park. In an effort to prepare for difficult times, they will eliminate costs. But in the process, they will indiscriminately eliminate programs, people, operations, and systems that will dramatically and deleteriously change the organization. Read on to explore what to do instead.
Meet Dr. Patton McDowell and his new book on nonprofit leadership: "There is great need for skilled leadership in our increasingly complex (and quickly expanding) sector. I’m determined to provide a practical guide that helps anyone in— or pondering—nonprofit leadership to define their goals and give them a clear path to achieve them."
While you cannot script your way through a business development conversation, you have to know where you're going and generally what to say. Learn from this example of how things can go wrong and learn what to do next.
December 6, 2022