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

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You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Remote work is challenging teams. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. These are telltale signs: Your strategy has changed.

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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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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans. You need to provide opportunities for their continuous learning on the job and mentoring. Model and Celebrate Well-being Practices Creating a robust work culture that incorporates well-being is fundamental.

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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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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

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We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Before we go over how to implement new strategies to engage employees, let’s discuss the challenges many businesses and nonprofits face when it comes to employee engagement, such as: Insufficient training.

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Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because staff turnover challenges effectiveness and poor morale does not inspire staff to move the organization’s forward to great heights. Participants prioritized the ideas by combining and evaluating the cost/impact, boiling down to a couple of ideas to present to the whole group. Mentoring program and cross training.

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