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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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Focus on Mentoring Sue is a relationship builder. Mentoring is something I am passionate about,” Sue advised. More importantly, it was also an excellent opportunity to develop strong relationships and build trust early by creating a cohort of people who were coming up together. It was a great way to give them new tools.

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Beyond efficiency: A human-first AI adoption strategy

Candid

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows. Investing in “soft skills.”

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

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Gustavo Rasetti, CEO of Fearless Culture , describes Zappos relationship between culture and structure like this. As part of managing growth and scaling the business, Zappos adopted the Holacracy constitution. The adoption of Holacracy encouraged autonomy and distributed authority, key pillars today.

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Empower association volunteers to boost member engagement

Nimble AMS

The innovative Nimble Communities allows ACerS to adopt member engagement strategies like establishing online community volunteer opportunities and allowing member volunteers to adopt the roles of Moderator or Super Members. Mentoring program. Build your diverse base of volunteer mentors, then begin recruiting mentees.

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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

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. Dive into your personal and professional networks.

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Step-by-Step Guide To Making A Hybrid Workplace Successful

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Hybrid work is widely recognized as a coveted employee benefit, allowing employees to limit the number of days required to commute, yet providing the in-person training, mentoring and professional development opportunities that come with in-person work. The major drawback is the intentionality that is required for leaders and employees.

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A Grateful Note to End 2020

VQ Strategies

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].