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

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Depending on the circumstances, these levels either promote efficiency with short, clearly defined reporting lines or create a long, perilous climb before ideas reach decision-makers. Remote work is challenging teams. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Understand the Options.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. This is an opportunity to look beyond the usual suspects toward the eclectic mix of talent that a challenging future demands. The average pharmacist, librarian, or dentist has limited experience with the challenges that are involved in running an association.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

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In this guide, we’ll cover the following essentials: Employee Engagement FAQs Employee Engagement Dos and Don’ts Employee Engagement Program Ideas Employee Engagement Plan Template Let’s explore why employee engagement is so critical and how you can promote it on an everyday basis. Remote work challenges. Tech stack.

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Volunteer Retention: What Makes them Stay?

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This is a valuable means of evaluating the tasks that should be assigned to maximize retention. Volunteers enjoy challenging tasks and look for chances to step up to the next level. If this sense of challenge is lacking, volunteers will not generally continue service with an organization. Personal Growth. Recognition of Service.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

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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. Performance evaluations are an imperative aspect of leading and growing. Evaluations should not be about power, judgment, blame or failure.

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The Power of Plans, Peers, and Pivots

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As we wrap up all four of these cohort-based engagement initiatives as 2020 ends, we were a bit unsure of what outcomes to realistically expect, given all the challenges posed by the Coronavirus pandemic. Why were they successful even amid one of the most challenging years in nonprofit history?