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

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You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. Gustavo Rasetti, CEO of Fearless Culture , describes Zappos relationship between culture and structure like this. Understand the Options.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Data Governance: The Key to Strategic Planning

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No matter the scale of your organization, an effective data governance framework is necessary to communicate your impact clearly to grantmakers and donors alike. More importantly, it creates a culture of security to safeguard their trust. Finally, create a roadmap and set clear goals with evaluation criteria for hitting each goal.

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Report calls for shift to more equitable evaluation practices

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A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. In their engagement with the framework, practitioners identified three key shifts in mindset: from “doing” to “being” (i.e.,

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Trust and Culture Trust and culture are deeply intertwined. From the beginning of her tenure at ENA, Nancy has made building a positive culture a priority. Nancy MacRae, MS, CAE, ENA, describes the relationship between trust and culture. Nancy MacRae, MS, CAE, ENA, describes the relationship between trust and culture. “As

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations. Evaluate New Initiatives Strategic risk is a different story. Most professionals are happy to help. Sig is right.