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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Unplanned change – responding to the unexpected.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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How a Project Charter Can Help You Have a Successful Fund Accounting Software Implementation

sgEngage

A well-developed project charter can help to keep stakeholders aligned from the onset, avoid common risks and pitfalls, and ensure that you’re making the most effective use of your resources. Risks No change management undertaking is without its risks. Here are 10 essential elements that every project charter should include.

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When nonprofit strategic planning goes wrong 

Candid

But an effective plan will hang together as a whole and make it clear why some paths forward are a better use of limited resources than others. Additionally, it should build on the unique skills and capabilities the organization brings to a community or field. Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.”

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Five Must-Read Business Books To Read This Summer

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders.

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Strategic Leadership: What a Nonprofit Leader Really Needs to Know about IT

NTEN

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology.

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Fonteva Implementation & Managed Services

fusionSpan

When we deliver a Fonteva implementation project, we also deliver plans for change management, communication, training and development, to help ensure that resistance to adoption doesn’t undermine your investment. On the technical side, data architecture is key to implementing Fonteva effectively.

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