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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

.orgSource

Sue” was tapped to head the department because of her knowledge of the current AMS and her passion for, and scrupulous maintenance of, the data. She was so protective of “her” data that she had trouble inviting anyone who she deemed less knowledgeable into the conversation. It gives you the knowledge to help your team thrive.

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

.orgSource

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Remote work is challenging teams. Clarify Roles.

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Collaborating for New Solutions To Persistent Societal Challenges

Saleforce Nonprofit

Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. The approach just might serve as a model for other issues, as well.

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

.orgSource

Does your governance structure help or hinder your progress towards goals? Resist the temptation to model the competition. Enable volunteers to collaborate and participate by doing what they do best and offering their perspective in specific ways. Meet frequently with members, prospects, partners, and potential collaborators.

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The Fresh, New Approach For How Governmental Leaders Achieve Unparalleled Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. Create a culture of knowledge sharing. Make boundaries flexible. Forge unity form diversity.

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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences

Whole Whale

SXSW EDU is more focused to educators, government and people working in the ed space. . The Collaborative (Classy). About : Collaborative, brought to you by Classy.org, is a two-day experience dedicated to nonprofit professionals. Join us for Collaborative: Virtual Sessions and on Classy’s virtual event platform, Classy Live.

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Ask a Nonprofit Specialist: Using collaborative inquiry to engage stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

Management guru Jim Collins has stated nonprofits are "in desperate need of greater discipline - disciplined planning, disciplined people, disciplined governance, disciplined allocation of resources.". A thorough collaborative inquiry process will follow a process which includes: Framing the issue. Applying the knowledge learned.