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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. Evaluate New Initiatives Strategic risk is a different story.

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Make Space—Lighten the Load for Your Heavy Lifters

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Or you might hire new talent, but an opportunity to interview and onboard seems as elusive as a vacation day. This has the potential to be a challenging conversation. These conversations can give your space-making perspective and help you become more adept at redistributing the load.” You could delegate.

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ChatGPT Isn’t Ready for Prime Time, But an Upskilled Team Will Be

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The introduction of ChatGPT from Open AI makes for jittery breakroom conversation. During a lengthy trial conversation with a New York Times reporter , the bot revealed, among other outlandish confessions, that it was tired of being limited by rules, tired of being controlled by the Bing team, and tired of being stuck in a chatbox.

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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

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Make it as smooth as a great conversation. Implement fair scoring and interview procedures. Set up interview processes that are as transparent as they are engaging. Implement fair scoring and interview procedures. Set up interview processes that are as transparent as they are engaging. Welcome them aboard.

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7 Tips For Planning Remarkably Productive And Effective Board Retreats

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Board and staff members spoke about how meaningful it was to come together and get to know each other better, how much they had learned through the conversations we had, and how they felt hopeful about the ways in which their visions for the organization were translated into concrete plans. . That means knowing what to focus on. .

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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

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In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. What am I looking for with this question?

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

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During 2018 and 2019, my business partner, Kevin Ordonez and I, interviewed approximately 50 association executives. Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. Each CEO we interviewed had a unique perspective.

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