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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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That curiosity and engagement with others are reflected in her love of travel and learning about diverse countries and cultures. The board should have a keen understanding of the organization’s mission, and the values and ability to envision strategies to fulfill those goals and serve their members. Boards have to be transparent.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. To inspire performance, set common goals.

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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If your association is struggling to launch a strong diversity initiative, these activities will help you get closer to that goal. It’s an exercise that will provide the opportunity to explore lessons learned in training and reflect on how they impact real-life situations. Build Excitement Goals create excitement.

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

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Well-written, well-structured content is one of the best things an organization can do to improve accessibility. Making the commitment to accessibility explicit reflects our goals of ensuring accessibility considerations are embedded in every step of the work we do. Focus on content. The future: Accessibility as the norm.

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3 Roles of the Nonprofit CFO that Lead to Mission Success

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The Builder CFO resonates deeply with this vision, as they are tasked not only with constructing sustainable financial structures but also with embracing technological innovation to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

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In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. What Is Growth?

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