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

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Even small associations tend to stack layers of management like the cake at a royal wedding. As many as five tiers of responsibility (junior positions, middle managers, executive staff, committees, and the board of directors) are not unusual. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? You can do it.

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8 Steps for Creating a Nonprofit Innovation Culture

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But for innovation to thrive, you must embrace a culture where the entire nonprofit is committed to enhancing processes or strategies by transforming ideas into actionable improvements. Based on these essays, we could determine how nonprofits are faring in the culture of innovation, and the steps you can take to harness such a culture.

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4 Necessary Culture Shifts To Help You Navigate Change Management

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Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management , which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. Organizations that successfully navigate change management have also made culture shifts to ensure lasting change. Inviting creativity.

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Public Sector & Nonprofit Case Management Software

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Public Sector & Nonprofit Case Management Software Improve Impact Drive stronger outcomes with a solution that empowers your staff, enables more data-informed decision making, and provides expert guidance and best practices.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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More than a few of those executives were managing virtual teams. One bit of wisdom is that like most skills, managing a remote team is both easier and more complicated than we could have imagined. We were forced into situations that few were prepared to manage. Virtual work shines the high beams on culture.

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

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We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. 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. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Introducing coaching into your culture is a good way to begin. Create Opportunity Peggy Winton, President and CEO at the Association for Intelligent Information Management, is a leader who puts elevating others at the top of her agenda. The ability to set inclusive goals that take cultural differences into account.

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