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

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The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. ENA’s commitment to bring culture to life is even expressed in the organization’s physical environment. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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But is this the right question? Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change. Self-regulation— or learning to effectively manage conflict, challenges, and stress is critical in fast-paced digital environments. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor 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. They are activities that are frequently governed and controlled by policies and procedures, such as: Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin conversations about risk.

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

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We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question. Success belongs to organizations that adapt to a shifting environment. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status.

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Be the Voice of Relevance—Make Mission, Vision, and Values Fit the Moment

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Imagine you’re teed up for a jackpot question on Jeopardy. A post-pandemic business environment, characterized by change and disruption, provides good reasons to open the windows and let fresh air revitalize, even fundamental concepts. is proactive about finding avenues to grow mission in a competitive environment.

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