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How to Run an Effective Meeting
Many people spend more than half of their work week in meetings. With all that time invested, one would expect the meeting processes to be near perfect, yet effective meetings are hard to find. [...]
Can Team Assessments Strengthen Your Team
The transition from one year to the next is a good time to step back and assess. Where were you in 2021, and where are you going in 2022? No doubt you’ve set new [...]
Effectively Communicate Your New Year’s Goals
January is a natural time to engage your team in new organizational initiatives. At the start of the year, people tend to put their best foot forward and be willing to explore new ideas and [...]
Nonprofit Trends for 2022
Working in a nonprofit can often feel a little lonely at the end of the year. December is the biggest fundraising month of the year. So, while your friends at for-profit businesses are researching next [...]
Honoring Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Hiring people with diverse experiences, including neurodiversity, allows you to serve more people with targeted services that meet their unique needs. A diverse staff can also help you combat groupthink and create innovative solutions. [...]
Nonprofit Talent Investment: Change the Conversation
Editor's Note: This post on nonprofit talent management was originally written in 2017. It has been updated with the events of 2020-2021 in mind. Is “doing more with less” the mantra in your organization? Are [...]
Keeping Contract Workers Happy
It’s a good time to be a contract worker. According to Fortune, in 2020, contract work grew by 33 percent, and independent workers’ wages increased by a similar rate. Freelancing was growing rapidly even [...]
Is Remote Work Equitable?
According to Global Workplace Analytics, 25 to 30 percent of the United States workforce will be working from home one or more days a week after the pandemic. But not all workers can work from [...]
Your Nonprofit Mission Statement
Whether you’re a for-profit company or a nonprofit organization, a mission statement answers three basic questions: Why does the organization exist? Who does the organization serve? How does the organization serve those people? Mission statements [...]
Big Data Trend Watch for Nonprofit Leaders
Editor's Note: This article on big data was originally written in 2018 and has been updated with current information. There is an explosion of extremely large data sets that may be analyzed by computer [...]
The Refuge Crisis & Employment
A refugee is a person who was been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. According to International Rescue Committee, out of more than 26 million refugees in [...]
Influence Mapping & Your Organization
The idea of influence mapping has been around for a long time. In the late 1960s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram set out to discover how connected the world was. He handed out "information packets" in [...]