sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Identify the person who will be the primary project manager as well as the member of leadership who will make the final decisions. For example, you will be reviewing your expense management processes as part of this project, but any fundraising management topics will be reserved for a later initiative.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

While the C-level and managers will probably lead your organization’s tech selection, you can think of the board as the ultimate executive sponsor. They can help drive a culture of adoption , which allows leadership to focus on change management activities to ensure you succeed with significant tech shifts.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.”

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The entire process of r esearching, buying, and implementing new association management software (AMS) is a major job for any organization. Tips to help you manage expectations for your AMS When it comes to your stakeholders, you’ll likely experience some with strong opinions. And you must keep communicating. Be transparent.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Foster a Culture of Security Your digital ecosystem is made of up three parts: People, Systems, and Processes. Your processes are how you carry out functions and should have a clear procedure that can be followed across the organization. Stay Informed and Curious Adopting a new data governance system is not a one-time process.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 30, 2014

Because Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan delivers so much timely, straight-forward and relevant wisdom in his book, Change-friendly Leadership , reading it is like talking with your trusted best friend. You''ll also likely enjoy as I did all the great leadership quotes sprinkled throughout the book, such as these: Losing good people is costly.

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Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. In the 2021 survey, 92.2%

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

All of this is change. The actual process of changing takes true leadership, whether in our personal or professional lives. My organizational leadership mind had alarm bells ringing so loudly that I thought people could hear them. Nothing dooms a project more than failed change management in an organization.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

By leveraging technology and streamlining processes, your organization can adapt to rising demands with the financial flexibility to thrive. Inadequate Processes. For many nonprofits, outdated and manual processes place a further burden on staff’s time. Leverage Technology to Manage Rapid Change.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

dues, lengthy training requirements, expected attendance at meetings); A weak (or nonexistent) leadership pipeline to sustain governance; Hierarchical culture due to a perceived “pecking order” based on years of service, volunteer title, or level of training; and A drain on staff time to attend council meetings and support subcommittees, etc.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Leadership engagement Every nonprofit leader is in their position for a reason. Changing systems from QuickBooks to Intacct is not going to solve a “bad reporting” issue. However, changing culture will. Changing from one system to another is a process change.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

By leveraging technology and streamlining processes, your organization can adapt to rising demands with the financial flexibility to thrive. Inadequate Processes For many nonprofits, outdated and manual processes place a further burden on staff’s time.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Flickr photo: Chris.Corwin Nothing gets done without leadership. My favorite thing about leadership is that it can come from everywhere. When everyone's a part of process, the revolution happens much more quickly. We're going to spend a lot of time talking about leadership in the next year. Open by default.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively. Change management: What is it?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Change comes in many different forms, whether it’s a new technology initiative, a new stakeholder or student engagement approach, change in leadership, crisis resolution, etc. Today’s guest, Drumm McNaughton, CEO of The Change Leader, Inc. The differences between incremental, transformational and revolutionary change.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Without a vetting and approval process in place, they can end up in the “Wild Wild West” of technology, with redundant or underutilized tools, wasted human capital, and unnecessary expenses. Finding the right solutions takes strong leadership. That is when innovation creep sets in.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Million Budget In small organizations like mine, more often than not, the Executive Director or senior leadership of the organization also wears the technology leader hat, accidental or not. Technology isn’t going to create a business process where one doesn’t exist. Focus first on process, not technology.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. We define success, we decide what to measure, we collect the information, we own the data, and we don’t share the learning from the process.

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Forum One

MAY 6, 2021

When done correctly, there are many advantages to modernization— reduced staff time on paperwork, streamlined processes, and payments, improved integration with other systems and data, happier end-users, using inclusive language, and better tracking and reporting— that add up to the opportunity to gain tremendous efficiencies. Where to start.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

A technology officer should be brought in at the senior leadership level. 5 Reasons to have a technology officer at the management table : Priority Management. Management meetings provide insight into organizational long- and short-term priorities. Tech people are trained to automate processes. Efficiency.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

Just like any technology, realizing success on the Salesforce platform takes careful maintenance, dedication to change management, and intentional roadmap planning. SU: These individuals are recommended by their team’s leadership to be the subject matter expert on their team for solutions within Salesforce.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

The stark impossibility of maintaining the status quo, and the limitations of clunky manual processes were harshly brought to light. Individual giving in particular has become more sophisticated and complex as teams manage an ever-growing range of platforms and channels, while driving net donor base growth. Many tried new things….but

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

Changing technology, especially that as important as your constituent relationship manager (CRM), is a decision that should be vetted, following significant deliberation between your leadership, technology, fundraising, programs, and any team impacted by the switch, accompanied by a considered effort to ready your data for migration.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2015

But a few months later, data quality hasn’t improved, processes remain inefficient and only half your staff is using the product. Change Management Leadership nonprofit technology planning tech management'

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

departments across campus, including advancement, marketing, financial aid, academic leadership and more,?from?private Mastering change management to usher in digital transformation . Change management is always an important topic at bbcon as we strive to help our customers implement successful solutions on their campus.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. And even change management is changing as well. In their book, the authors use eight themes to offer guidance on how to change perspective and view the enterprise as a living organization, enabled by technology.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A job description is an internal document used to define roles and responsibilities for the employee and senior leadership. Defining this early in the process will provide a point of reference for the following steps. He seeks to use technology to empower organizations and individuals while guiding all steps of change management.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Once you include these voices and understand the value their perspectives bring to your decision-making process, you can approach the women, girls, and femmes of color in your community as partners, and see them worthy of investment. Because when you are focused on social change, the work you do won’t always show up annually. “We

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is that with the quickly changing landscape of today’s challenges the assembly line concept is not agile enough to adapt to those changes. Management philosophy for today. Work requirements often changed before the team could even complete the work. An entirely new management mindset has evolved.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 21, 2015

Part one of the book outlines the Stacking the Deck process -- the nine steps through which nearly every breakthrough change inevitably goes: Establishing the need to change and creating a sense of urgency. Part two covers the higher-order skills that are necessary for success in the process of leading breakthrough change.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

NTEN member Sean Watson brought up his concern about the lack of staffing around, and interest in, "business processes" in most nonprofit organizations. Here's a little more background from him on this topic: " I spent my days at [a for-profit company] working with managers on process improvement. of people, even.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Most organizations incorporate messaging training as part of the new hire process and encourage employees to “represent” when they are out and about at professional networking events. Instead what would it look like if everyone on staff, especially leadership, actively participated in furthering the organization’s mission online?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A recent McKinsey report shared that only 30% of technology initiatives produce value to the business, which means investing in change management as an organization is key. Ensure the leadership team has an authentic vision for how tech can be both transformational and an accelerator.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Conducting formalized purchasing processes represents an essential aspect of any business seeking to maximize return on investments and improve organizational outcomes. Cloud for Good recently sat down with BWF’s Jason Boley, Senior Vice President of Systems and Operations, to discuss the value and best processes of the RFP process.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

From the urban demonstration projects of the historic foundations (Kellogg, Ford, Carnegie) to the contemporary emphasis on indicators and evaluation work, the sector has increasingly embraced systematic and intentional research processes for advancing social change goals.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

We worked through the whole binder eventually, and they came out of the process with enough understanding to both value my leadership role in this realm, and to be sounding boards for the really big decisions, major investments, etc. we'd love to hear your story and your advice to others.

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