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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Make successful collaboration part of performance standards.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration.

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

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Our expectations around results are powerful. These rigid structures also mean that we wait for results (even if it’s in 6-to-12-month pilot studies), or we copy and paste best practices from other communities based on the assumption that what works in one place will work in another. Redefine Success by Solution Testing.

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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

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Also, most of the foundations I talked to found it difficult to collaborate with other foundations. From this learning, I was left with the question, “How can collaborations thrive when everyone feels that they are “unique”? The key, I’ve found, is approaching collaboration with empathy and testing your assumptions.

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How can nonprofits improve staff well-being to achieve desired results?

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These six recommendations that nonprofit leaders can enact today will help improve staff well-being while achieving results. Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Adjust your leadership style.

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How can effective leadership succession planning result in nonprofit sustainability?

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By no means does the research suggest to let go of older generations and replace with younger professionals, but rather to take a more collaborative approach to developing the organization vs. riding the wave of knowledge and seasoned professionalism from the most tenured executive. Collaboration. Recommendations.

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Why Cross-functional Collaboration is Key to a Successful Digital Strategy

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This is why cross-functional collaboration is key to a successful digital strategy. . Often, knowledge of the digital landscape varies widely throughout an organization and so trying to provide this education, while developing your digital strategy, can result in frustration.