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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. If performance issues have been a problem, keep an open mind. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this. Hiring for skill is easy.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? Letting ideas flow freely seems like the opposite of the filtering process required for critical thinking. A collegial attitude that contributes to productive relationships.

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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Could your association benefit from replacing its strategic plan with some other type of planning process? It also makes it possible to be more fearless tackling tough problems. Is your organization’s strategic plan serving its needs?

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. Embrace Adaptability It may be hard for “button-up” organizations to introduce a more casual attitude. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

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Social Media and the Arts: How Strong Is Your Social Net?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the study’s authors, Mary Trudel, wrote a guest post back in 2011 summarizing the results. They are in the process of updating the study and have some preliminary results to share. Management attitudes. How Strong Is Your Social Net? Guest Post by Mary Trudel. Greatest Challenges.