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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Most CEOs are lucky enough to have a mentor or two in their past.

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Advice, Experience, + Pride—Thoughts from MC Staff

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While there are certainly still hurdles to overcome, we wanted to take time this month to celebrate and share personal experiences, advice, and perspectives from our own MC employees around Pride. What advice you would share with your younger self? What figure in pop culture did you look up to as a kid? Janine Guarino.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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Once you know who is needed, you must explain exactly what the organization expects from their service both in terms of activities and culture. Ideally, one of these meetings will be a welcome from the executive director, which includes his or her unique advice and views on board service. Set Expectations. This seems obvious.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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If you’ve paired new members with a mentor, make sure financial topics are included in their post-orientation meetings. Provide Education Financial development is an excellent opportunity to promote your organization’s culture of learning. Make it Meaningful This is probably my most important piece of advice.

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Good CEO, Bad Call—How to Recover

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It’s “All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” kind of advice. If you don’t already have those mentors in place, it’s past time to begin developing an executive support system. Fortunately, finding colleagues with whom you can share ideas and advice is easy. Take Joey’s advice. He was fired. Don’t be afraid to fail.

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Hire Fresh Talent—But Before You Shop, Check the Fridge

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Whether the new hire is a junior employee or head of a key department, they will represent the brand experience you want for members and shape the culture you seek for your staff. In this competitive environment, the impact that people make on brand and culture has never been more important. Sarah offered this final advice.

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Three Fundraising Pros Give Their Advice On What You Should Do After You Get Laid Off

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My personal biggest piece of advice: Get in touch with your network. Read what Lisa Chmiola (Chief Fablanthropist at Fablanthropy ), fundraising pro Mimosa Kabir , and Sarah Willey (founder of Sarah Willey LLC ) have to offer you: Expert advice, best practices, and tips to help anyone who is considering their next job move. .

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