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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Remote work is challenging teams. Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. You can do it.

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Nonprofits Have Been Right All Along: Community Benefit Models Can Solve Our Toughest Environmental Challenges

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Article In Brief: The Problem: Nonprofits have long known the value of building community, but our voices have been ignored or devalued. Why it Happens: Our existing economic structure is designed to reward profit-seeking and to devalue […].

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging. There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. But that is also probably the most challenging solution.

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Build a Board for the Digital Future

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We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. We let the board know how we’re doing, where we’re succeeding, and where there are challenges. They know that we’re going to fix the problems.” We’re a board of eight. That smaller size makes us nimble. To me, that’s basic.

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Solutions Day 2023—It’s Happening!

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We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? Quick Takes—These 20-Minute Snap Shots for Smart Outcomes offer solutions to practical problems like these: We launched our new AMS.

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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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But I am struck by how often our contributors’ insights are the recommendations we needed to survive that challenge. Does your governance structure help or hinder your progress towards goals? What challenges to your organization/members are not being addressed? Embrace a challenge. Isolation is a challenge for CEOs.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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Most groups navigated the unusual challenges and got work done. And, most importantly, we discovered new strategies for adaptation and problem solving. Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently. The shared challenge bonded a lot of folks.

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