ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

posted by Jacquelynn Sokol Spring 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. If you are a nonprofit executive then, stop and consider collaboration or a merger. In our search to realize our nonprofit’s mission, collaborations and mergers are two strategies that can maximize impact under the right conditions.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Assigning a mentor is one of the most effective strategies to ensure that new directors get up to speed quickly. In situations where first-timers are not acquainted with others in the group, a mentor can significantly increase their comfort level and their ability to contribute. Ideally, you might present both. Use the Buddy System.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By Annisa Wanat , an independent consultant who works to strengthen the capacity of mission-driven organizations to achieve their goals more strategically by providing customized solutions in leadership, management, and communications. 4) Collaborate Outside of Scheduled Meetings. 1) Demonstrate Transparency. 5) Display Tech Savvy.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Mentoring program. A great way to increase member engagement in your organization is to develop your mentoring program. If you’re looking to build bridges with younger professionals , Gen Z and Millennial members are especially interested in mentoring opportunities.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. By encouraging managers to turn their focus away from supervision and toward collaboration and communication, you give them the flexibility to empower employees. New hires don’t engage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? The report offers some great tips and advice to those managing emerging leaders on how to mentor them. Collaborates and promotes teamwork. Leadership' Flickr Photo by Flower Factor.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. Reach out to colleagues, friends, mentors, and professional acquaintances—anyone you know who may have connections or recommendations for prospective board members. Foster a collaborative culture.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2024

Engage your s takeholde rs Keep communication open with your board members, key stakeholders, and staff by establishing communication channels for feedback and collaboration. You can also seek to increase member transparency within your townhall meetings by requesting member feedback and sharing leadership responses.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Furthermore, share the authors, “With hybrid work, leaders need to ensure that employees are engaged, remote work is productive, and hybrid teams are collaborating, all within legal guidelines.” Section 2: The 7 C’s of Leadership. in-person collaboration, mentoring, professional development and enhancing work relationships).

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 22, 2014

And even if you didn’t have a specific mentor or group of people you could call upon, you probably wish that you did. You’ve heard about the perks of having a mentor before. But we’re here to tell you (as a nonprofit professional) why you should be out in the community mentoring others. The Perks of Being a Mentor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Emerging Leaders Need More than Leadership Development.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

While it may seem like jumping the gun, your nonprofit should start planning for leadership succession in advance of actually passing the torch. This involves both choosing who these new leaders will be, as well as preparing them with the best possible leadership skills. Most nonprofits do not have leadership succession plans.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Mentor your high-potential females. Choose a mentor.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Collaboration Review and provide input into software specifications. Collaborate with other developers to ensure (1) we are taking the best approach in a given situation (2) we are doing things in a consistent way (3) we share information. Create technical specifications and technical designs. You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

posted by Brian Hetzer Spring 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. The answers stem from how volunteer management and key organizational leadership view volunteer retention - the ability to keep volunteers long-term. Volunteers feeling a lack of trust and faith in organization’s leadership.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Something you may not realize is that despite women making up almost half (47%) of the US workforce, they hold l ess than one-third (28%) of the leadership positions in tech. Qgiv: What about Qgiv’s culture do you think helps foster and promote female leadership? Women also hold only 25% of C-suite positions. Jess: Your voice matters.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2021

posted by Sara Ebert Spring 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Fostering a culture within the organization of trust and collaboration creates the type of place people want to work. Sara Ebert is a 2020 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

This week we welcome Marla Cornelius, co-author of Daring to Lead 2011: A National Study of Nonprofit Executive Leadership. And, among all domains of leadership that the role requires (leading self, leading others, leading the organization, and leading externally), executives believe they are least effective when it comes to leading others.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1].

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

A nonprofit organization, much like a for-profit company, is only as strong as its leadership. Businesses spent an estimated $12 billion in leadership development in 2011. Businesses spend $120 per employee per year on leadership development, while the social sector spends just $29 (Callanan, 2014). 03% of the sector's $1.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

posted by Shannon Harrell Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. The HPT emits a culture of passion, innovation, drive and collaboration. Shannon Harrell is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Measure Performance.

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Media Cause

MARCH 8, 2021

After helping to develop RiseUP with our co-founder and several other stellar members of the Media Cause team last year, I humbly accepted the honor of taking-over the program’s leadership this past December. To keep it going and growing, we need to build collaborations and partnerships throughout all three of the industries we work in.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

posted by Erin Larkins, Fall 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Leadership training on communications styles.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 24, 2022

They welcome collaboration … but they also make decisions and move forward, rather [than] acting from a place of fear of hurting others’ feelings. ”. Volunteer engagement leaders who focus on creating “open” volunteer opportunities often create what I refer to as “come-one-come-all” service opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Note: This guest post was published on the Packard Foundation OE Blog reflects what was learned from designing and delivering leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. We learned a lot. Investing in the next generation of social sector leaders takes buy-in at all levels of an organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 5, 2020

posted by Jessica Cooper, RD, CD, CSSD, Spring 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. A high supportive, low directive leadership style is most likely to be effective with millennials. Collaboration: Millennials want a sense of belonging. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I interviewed 50 different founders, athletes, artists, activists, NFL coaches and celebrities, many of whom I have mentored and advised – from billionaire Marc Lore to Scarlett Johansson – to illustrate strategies for total commitment. Question: Why is collaboration in the workplace not always a good thing?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The concept has morphed and evolved a great deal in that time, thanks to all the great input from Massachusetts stakeholders , but also from a team of ELP fellows from the Center for Collaborative Leadership. Examples include Bunker Hill Community College and Tech Foundry. That’s TNB Labs. students in this field. So here we are.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

posted by Jennifer Kirksey Fall 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. However, in " Programs Aren’t Everything ," investing in beneficiaries increases their sense of self, take ownership of their needs, and become collaborators to the solution. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 3, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Collaborate without ego. If you help people, they will want to help you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2019

posted by JeKaren Olaoya Spring 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. These practices lead to happier employees, more creativity and innovation, more collaboration and greater organizational loyalty. Have you ever gone through the process of baking a cake from scratch? According to J.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

" Catalyst leaders represent the gold standard -- energetic, supportive, forward-thinking mentors who spark action in others," explain Tacy M. Wellins , authors of the new book, Your First Leadership Job -- How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others. Byham and Richard S.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some of these factors are environmental and out of your control: the economy, politics, changes in leadership, and pandemics. Be sure to provide opportunities for interaction between leadership, senior officers, and newer talent. Senior officers can help mentor new staff. This can create a stronger team and help reduce turnover.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2016

" Catalyst leaders represent the gold standard -- energetic, supportive, forward-thinking mentors who spark action in others," explain Tacy M. Wellins , authors of the new book, Your First Leadership Job -- How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others. Byham and Richard S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

is an Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management in ASU's School of Community Resources and Development. I am also interested in the intersection of the government and the nonprofit sectors, which includes cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit provision of public services, etc. Lili Wang, Ph.D.,

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