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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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Sue’s deep experience with boards and leadership makes her the perfect resource for a conversation about coaching new and more seasoned directors. She served as executive director for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) for 13 years and has almost 30 years of experience in the association industry.

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Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership

Greater Giving

Equipping them with volunteer orientation knowledge ensures they understand the value proposition of volunteers and can champion: Effective Volunteer Recruitment: Board members and committee members can leverage their networks to attract skilled volunteers. Volunteer Retention: Positive volunteer experiences lead to long-term engagement.

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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. Career coaches and mentors are great. I can’t over-emphasize the benefits of learning from people with a variety of perspectives and experiences. It sounds simple. But it’s the assignment that’s easiest to fail. describes her team of advisors like this.

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

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In my experience, the latter is the more common scenario. You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association.

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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

A volunteer’s significance goes far beyond just saving nonprofits money in wages; they bring experience, knowledge, and lots of passion. Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. The importance of volunteers cannot be underestimated.

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5 Ways To Be A Better Ally

Saleforce Nonprofit

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.