Your 2024 New Year's Resolution Check-In
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MARCH 5, 2024
If you need another resolution to tackle this year or haven't yet selected one, now is a good time to review this list below.
70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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Building A Nonprofit Board That Understands Financial Stewardship
Kindful
JUNE 8, 2021
Teach them about fundraising. Reading financial statements, analyzing data, reviewing the Form 990 before it’s filed, approving policies related to conflicts of interest, tapping into reserves, and conducting internal audits might not light your fire. Funders will review your organization’s Form 990 to learn about your story.
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success
Bloomerang
JANUARY 22, 2024
This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. Choose a board of directors A nonprofit’s board of directors is a governing body typically made up of unpaid volunteers who set policies, determine strategic priorities, and provide oversight.
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70 Ways To Be An Effective Leader
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)
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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 3, 2019
1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I also use it as a year in review tool. As the part of my monthly review, I reflect on my themes and habits to improve. Year in Review. Here they are: My Three Rituals.
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2021
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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70 Ways To Be An Effective Leader
Eric Jacobsen Blog
APRIL 16, 2021
Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)
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Time To Check In On Your 2021 New Year's Resolutions
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JUNE 10, 2021
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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Time To Check In On Your New Year's Resolutions
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MARCH 15, 2021
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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New Year's Resolutions For Leaders And Managers
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2020
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders For 2020
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2019
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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Nonprofit Board Member Onboarding: 12 Things to Cover
Qgiv
AUGUST 10, 2022
Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. In short, the board’s duty is to deal with the policies and the “big issues.”
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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round
EveryAction
JUNE 8, 2023
Raise the Roots Brandon Fuller, chief strategist For starters, we always encourage partners to go ahead and create as much content as possible at the start of an advocacy campaign to ensure copyediting, reviews, approvals, and production can happen all at once. The most important thing to remember is to design the event to fit your audience.
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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JANUARY 31, 2021
Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Create teams that are small and where roles are loosely defined, and policies are flexible. preparing reports, securing signoffs, participating in review meetings, etc.)?
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Humanocracy
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Create teams that are small and where roles are loosely defined, and policies are flexible. preparing reports, securing signoffs, participating in review meetings, etc.)?
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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 4, 2020
Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Create teams that are small and where roles are loosely defined, and policies are flexible. preparing reports, securing signoffs, participating in review meetings, etc.)?
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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror
M+R
JULY 10, 2023
Most of the time, you don’t need a policy briefing in order to make sense of the call to action. Does this sound or look like a policy briefing? I won’t rehash the whole thing here, but one helpful tip is to review your lede, or your full copy, and highlight the places where the elements of effective creative show up.
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How Are You Doing With Your Leadership New Year's Resolutions?
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JUNE 16, 2019
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang
ASU Lodestar Center
OCTOBER 4, 2016
Her work on nonprofit studies has appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly , Nonprofit Management & Leadership , Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations , and Public Management Review. My professional role includes three aspects: teaching, research, and service. Meet Dr. Wang.
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders For 2019
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders For 2015
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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70 Ways To Be A Better Leader
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MAY 12, 2019
Conduct annual risk reviews 7. Teach something new to your team 24. Have an open door policy 66. Dig deep within your organization for ideas on how to improve processes, policies and procedures 67. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes 5. Be courageous, quick and fair 8.
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Google Ad Grants 101: What You Need to Know
Neon CRM
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
You’ll need to follow some basic rules and policies while using your Google Ad Grants credits. Once you’ve done that, Google will review your application. That means you can create ads and show them to targeted audiences when they visit any of those places online. Pretty cool. How Can I Apply for Google Ad Grants?
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2013
Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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How Are You Doing With Your 2018 New Year's Resolutions?
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JUNE 24, 2018
And, if you are still seeking resolutions for this year, perhaps write down (and start working on) five to ten from the following list of ideal resolutions for leaders: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all (..)
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40 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 31, 2017
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2014
Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 4, 2016
These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis. Year in Review.
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70 Ways To Be A Better Leader
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 6, 2018
Conduct annual risk reviews 7. Teach something new to your team 24. Have an open door policy 66. Dig deep within your organization for ideas on how to improve processes, policies and procedures 67. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes 5. Be courageous, quick and fair 8.
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New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 31, 2016
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing
Bloomerang
AUGUST 2, 2021
If you have Yelp reviews, look at those too. . I used to do this weekly when I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank because breaking news, changes in government policy, and disruptions in the economy tended to have an outsized impact on our work, the need in the community, and what donors cared about.
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders In 2017
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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70 Tips For How To Be A Better Leader
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JUNE 27, 2013
Conduct annual risk reviews 7. Teach something new to your team 24. Have an open door policy 66. Dig deep within your organization for ideas on how to improve processes, policies and procedures 67. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes 5. Be courageous, quick and fair 8.
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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 18, 2012
Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.
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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19
Top Nonprofits
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Now to tie things back to e-learning: we know that the purpose of an e-learning course is to teach staff members how to do their jobs better. If you’re making an addendum to safety policies, focus on realistic scenarios (ex: what to do if there are too many people in a room at once) rather than outlandish, but exciting, “what if?”
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70 Ways To Be A Better Leader
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Conduct annual risk reviews 7. Teach something new to your team 24. Have an open door policy 66. Dig deep within your organization for ideas on how to improve processes, policies and procedures 67. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes 5. Be courageous, quick and fair 8.
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How To Be A Better Leader
Eric Jacobsen Blog
APRIL 29, 2017
Conduct annual risk reviews 7. Teach something new to your team 24. Have an open door policy 66. Dig deep within your organization for ideas on how to improve processes, policies and procedures 67. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes 5. Be courageous, quick and fair 8.
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2016 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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How To Be A Better Leader: 70 Tips
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
Conduct annual risk reviews 7. Teach something new to your team 24. Have an open door policy 66. Dig deep within your organization for ideas on how to improve processes, policies and procedures 67. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes 5. Be courageous, quick and fair 8.
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Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 8, 2018
One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. Remote working policy with flexibility. Review self-care activities and celebrate Friendship. Adequate desks and chairs for how people want to work.
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Time To Check In On Your 2016 New Year's Resolutions
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JULY 3, 2016
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2015
Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)
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