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Strategic Plan: Tying it to a Goal
In our final video interview about strategic plans we talk to Joey Brady of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). After six years as Executive Director, Joey still considers himself a relative newcomer [...]
Strategic Plan: A Guide for Interesting Times
This month we're talking with some of our favorite Executive Directors about strategic plans. In this interview, Mark Roeder, of the Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) shares his thoughts on the importance of a strategic [...]
Building and Maintaining Your Culture
We know that approximately 70 percent of change efforts fail, in part because organizational culture isn’t considered. Culture—the shared values, beliefs, and norms that guide an organization—is different in every context; however, there are [...]
A Strategic Plan: You Don’t Have Time Not to Do One
Curious if a strategic plan could help your organization? All this month we're going to be talking strategic planning with some of our favorite executive directors. In this first video, we talk with Kari [...]
The Importance of a Flexible Culture
While having a flexible culture is something many organizations have talked about over the years, Covid-19 made it clear that flexibility is a key ingredient to organizational success. Over the past several weeks we’ve [...]
Flexible Leadership
Flexible leadership has become a key component for a successful organization. Clearly, the global pandemic of 2020 requires a flexible approach to managing the challenges facing your organization and workforce. A flexible approach ensures [...]
Your Organization’s Culture: What Happens After the Pandemic?
When Covid-19 first struck, a lot of organizations made plans very quickly. Going remote, changing services, changing expectations, all of these things can have a dramatic impact on your organization's culture. As organizations start [...]
3 Steps to Creating a Flexible Strategic Plan During a Pandemic
It’s been a little over two months since most of us began sheltering in place and working from home. During that time, we’ve all seen plenty of ads about “these unprecedented times” and read [...]
How Socially Responsible Companies Are Filling the Void
It’s happening all over the country and the world. Socially responsible companies are jumping in to fill a void and help their communities. Distilleries and breweries are making and distributing hand sanitizer, sometimes at no [...]
The New Nonprofit Landscape
In February 2020, Forbes surveyed their “Nonprofit Council” about how the nonprofit field will change by the year 2025. The council members hit all the expected areas: an increase in digital marketing, the need to [...]
There is No Such Thing as Too Much Communication During Change
This post was originally published on November 13, 2015. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the topic of communicating organizational change has become very timely, so we have updated the post slightly. If you are [...]
Improving Employee Engagement While Working Remotely
It is hard to overstate the importance of employee engagement and its impact on employee retention and job performance. Over the past few decades research and experience has taught us that employee engagement leads to [...]