14 Underrated Qualities And Skills Nonprofit Leaders Should Cultivate For Success
Forbes Leadership
MARCH 13, 2023
Cultivation of the right competencies is critical to nonprofit leaders operating in an evolving business world.
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Forbes Leadership
MARCH 13, 2023
Cultivation of the right competencies is critical to nonprofit leaders operating in an evolving business world.
Forbes Leadership
MARCH 1, 2023
Though considerable information about how nonprofits operate is available, certain myths about the sector continue to circulate.
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Forbes Leadership
JUNE 30, 2022
New nonprofit managers have the unique opportunity to expand on how their organizations currently operate.
Forbes Leadership
JANUARY 25, 2023
To stay current and keep up with competitors, business leaders have to make intentional changes.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 13, 2023
A framework to help funders understand who they are and what kind of impact they aspire to have.
Forbes Leadership
JANUARY 3, 2023
When used properly, data can exponentially increase the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization.
Peter Winick
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Peter Winick So talk to us a little bit about your journey as a thought leader, right, Because you’ve gone from executive, nonprofit, building movements, author, speaker, how does it all how is it all tied together for you? As you mentioned, I started a nonprofit to help kids become first generation college students.
Eric Jacobson
JUNE 17, 2024
Owned and operated businesses of One Planet Group include Buyerlink, AutoWeb, One Planet VC, One Planet Studios, and others. As part of its nonprofit arm, One Planet Group also operates One Planet One People and Bahai Teach. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.
Chief Executive
MAY 11, 2023
They could include an ad hoc role at a local university, creation and/or sponsorship of an employee resource group, engagement in a structured mentoring program or even a formal role at a community group, such as an advisory board member of a nonprofit organization. As an operator you have significant control.
Peter Winick
APRIL 8, 2024
His insights are tailored for middle management professionals tasked with organizing work for their teams, regardless of the industry they operate in. So if I think about nonprofits specifically, the first word that comes to mind, mind is not necessarily process, but a passion, right? And I’m exposed to their questions.
Association Now Workplace
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Vice President of Operations and Administration, Gases and Welding Distributors Association. Association professionals are dedicated to helping nonprofit associations and professional societies achieve their missions. Natasha Alexis. Work for a group of businesses that represent an industry. Michael Dwyer.
Association Now Workplace
JANUARY 23, 2023
This confusion trickles down throughout the culture of the organization, muddying waters of the governance and operations structure and slowing down the decision-making process for both employees and volunteer leaders. This requires a better understanding and buy-in of the nonprofit culture (i.e.,
BCW Institute
MAY 2, 2022
Does your organization have an operating system that links your vision down to your employees’ daily and weekly actions? Well, find out how many entrepreneurial companies and ministries are discovering how an effective operative system can lead to improved outcomes and impact. Now here’s your host, BCWI CEO , Al Lopus.
BCW Institute
MAY 2, 2022
“How an Entrepreneurial Operating System Produces Greater Outcomes”. Intro: Does your organization have an operating system that links your vision down to your employees’ daily and weekly actions? And we’re going to be talking about phase two, which is in the realm of operating systems. It can be nonprofit.
Alison Green
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
A reader writes: I am the director of a nonprofit with a small team: I have five direct reports. We are a small nonprofit which has struggled financially, and we simply aren’t able to pay at the very top of the range for our staff (myself included). This post, how should I respond when employees complain about financial stress? ,
AIHR
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Your employees can also sign up to volunteer for large nonprofits such as Habitat for Humanity , the Red Cross , or the United Nations. . Paper Airplanes , for example, is a nonprofit organization that provides conflict-affected individuals with online classes in English or programming. Voluntary Time Off vs. Volunteer Time Off.
Alison Green
AUGUST 30, 2022
Do you think this is still a thing when figuring out what roles at nonprofits should pay? It’s not a universal nonprofit thing by any means, but there are fields that are structured around the expectation that employees — especially junior ones— don’t need to earn a living wage because someone else helps support them.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 7, 2022
It’s about creating a balance of grant types, categorized by operations, growth, and risk.
Association Now Leadership
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Johnson, director of organizational performance at the nonprofit consultancy Wipfli. While you’re doing that listening, also set that stage for pieces of your vision,” says Candance Chow, managing director and cofounder of NextGroup, LLC, a support firm for nonprofit leaders. So the benefit of the tour is to go in wide open.
Association Now Leadership
JANUARY 8, 2023
Because businesses have to dedicate more time to filling vacancies and training up new workers, operations are slower. That trend is happening in the nonprofit sector as well. The Times report noted that the trend has especially gummed up the gears in the service sector.
Alison Green
JUNE 24, 2024
I have worked at my small nonprofit for almost four years. I believe strongly in the mission of the nonprofit and I like everyone here, but it’s just such an oddly toxic workplace with very little support that I have to go. I oversee almost everything operational here, though.
Alison Green
JUNE 25, 2024
I work for a nonprofit that operates across several states. A reader writes: Over the past few months, I’ve found myself increasingly frustrated and resentful, and I fear it’s clouding my judgment. Any advice, even if it’s simply to let go, would be appreciated.
Alison Green
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
A reader writes: I work as a director at a medium-sized nonprofit, reporting directly to the chief development officer (CDO). One of two things will happen: either you’ll actually coach Jane into better behavior (if so, great) or it will become a lot clearer that she’s not operating in a way that’s aligned with the needs of her role.
Michael McKinney
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The conditions that we thought of as a strength are actually operating like a vice. Cultivate awareness: The paradigm shift starts with a clear understanding of what character is and how it operates. Extensive research and analysis concerning this can equip leaders with the necessary means to scale it in their own organizations.
Sweet Process
OCTOBER 8, 2022
As the chief operating officer at City Year, a nonprofit, Dr. John Tupponce accomplishes the organization’s goals by cultivating an inclusive team culture. There’s no limit to what an organization can achieve with the right people.
Association Now Leadership
JUNE 26, 2022
Since the start of the pandemic, nonprofit boards have been busier than ever—more meetings, more Zoom calls. But whether the training is done through a formal certification or orientation program, Gleason said the goal should be to train volunteer leaders in how to work as a board, not school them in every operational challenge that arises.
Chief Executive
APRIL 20, 2023
Perhaps a strategic advisor to a company in a related industry, or as an operating partner in a private equity firm that has portfolio companies in related industries. If you’re passionate about certain nonprofits and community imperatives, board service could be an option there—or some other type of greater involvement.
Michael McKinney
JANUARY 9, 2023
Born in India, schooled in Nigeria and England, and having lived in Greece before coming to the US, Shaara uses her global experience as the foundation for her distinctive expertise in crafting strategies to improve culture, workforce quality, and operations across a multitude of disciplines in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Alison Green
JULY 17, 2024
If there were safety implications — if she operates heavily machinery or otherwise held people’s lives in her hands — that would change the calculus. But otherwise, there’s not enough here to act on. Related: I think my coworker is an alcoholic 2. But some jurisdictions do — including Washington, D.C., D.C’s law might seem strange since D.C.
Alison Green
JUNE 13, 2024
Thongs at work The other day, while I was at a healthcare facility where they do both clinical visits and operations, I saw a female employee walking by me, wearing her perfectly-acceptable scrubs, who was clearly an operating room doctor or nurse. Here we go… 1.
Alison Green
APRIL 15, 2024
We are machine operators who happen to work with patients. Upgrading business flights and hotel rooms at my own expense I work for a nonprofit that requires a decent amount of travel. I’m still a student so I only work part-time until I graduate from my program. Nope, you’re fine. But upgrading your flight and room?
Peter Winick
JANUARY 27, 2023
Kind of know what you think and how you operate. I wrote my book for authors, for leaders of nonprofit causes, or for anyone who wants to build leadership, thought, leadership. You’ve got a piece of nonprofit. The second piece is, and I was going to get to this in a bit, but I’ll get to it now is.
Alison Green
JUNE 6, 2024
However, just recently I have been planning for another large box-moving operation — they come up every so often — and Jennifer mentioned, as we were discussing the logistics, that she misses having maintenance staff we can call on for this kind of physical task, as she had gotten used to that in a previous job.
Vantage Circle
OCTOBER 11, 2022
UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) describes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as: "A management concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders." But, it is seen as a social responsibility for organizations.
Alison Green
JUNE 28, 2022
A reader writes: My boss, the executive director of a small nonprofit, is grossly incompetent. Your biggest problem is that you are working for a tiny organization led by a grossly incompetent manager ( tiny matters here because it means that his incompetence is going to deeply affect every aspect of how things operate).
Peter Winick
JANUARY 18, 2024
It’s the governing operating system by which we carve out our identity in the world, and then what is expected and expected and acceptable for people like us by its anchoring identity, who we are right because of who we are. It’s a system of systems. People are in positions that can really be helpful to me.
Association Now Leadership
DECEMBER 20, 2024
A nonprofit financial pro explains the steps. A leaders abrupt departure can throw a wrench in an associations best-laid plans, but most organizations are ill-prepared for it: According to one study, less than half of nonprofits have a written succession plan. Transactions dont stop, even for a day.
Zenefits
JUNE 1, 2022
The United Nations defines CSR as integrating environmental and social concerns in business operations and stakeholder interactions. These include employees, customers, and the communities where they operate. Promote your CSR goals, brand mission, and vision in all your business operations. Why does CSR matter?
Alison Green
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The Christmas save(s) My husband was the VP of operations at a small tech company, second in command to the owner (who was not a good dude). When she retired, the school library was named after her. The owner sucked at running a business and decided he needed to lay off all the staff except my husband, who would help him rebuild.
Alison Green
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
A reader writes: I’m a project manager at a nonprofit. We’re desperately understaffed, so I am wearing many hats right now, including in the general operations area. This post, my coworker wants me to do all the work he sends me ASAP, even when I have higher priorities , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager.
Association Now Leadership
JANUARY 9, 2024
Since 2014, ALA has operated the Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC) program, which provides grants to libraries to bolster their roles as community centers. “It The American Library Association’s $7 million fund is designed to support libraries in small and rural communities.
Zenefits
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
The employees operate at their best when their intrinsic and extrinsic needs are satisfied. If your company is fulfilling more intrinsic motivations than extrinsic motivations (like in the nonprofit sector), consider how you can include more extrinsic motivation in your workplace. How to combine motivations for the most gain.
Chief Executive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
The CFO of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a $500 million nonprofit, spent years advocating for the opportunity to execute a digital back-office transformation. But, unlike competitors, this company invested in a supply chain rapid-response operation, leveraging digital twin technology. Let me share an example.
Peter Winick
JUNE 8, 2023
I mean, you made the comment earlier, you know, I have functional responsibilities and have for over 40 years we’re running a business and then trying to help our operators run 3000 businesses. But but that local operator and his or her capacity, leadership capacity is our differentiator. We did a grant for nonprofits.
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