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Fundraiser Burnout? Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale

sgEngage

If your fundraising team is stressed and stretched too thin, you’re not alone. Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work. Automating just a few tasks in your fundraising team’s workflow delivers interconnected benefits. Burnout is widespread.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This connects very nicely to the leadership development for emerging leaders that I’ve been working on lately. According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized.

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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

If your organization has flexible work systems in place, then a "carpocalypse" such as this won't have nearly the destructive impact that it otherwise could on your team's productivity. The best tactic is to start small and build up a system that is tested and optimal for your team, activity, and industry.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

Nonprofit leaders need no convincing that this is an exciting topic, but what about frontline fundraisers and marketing teams? billion knowledge workers, equaling a trillion hours per year. Applying an assignment structure. Let’s talk about productivity. According to the U.S. That’s 800 hours times 1.25 Why do this?

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Building The Nonprofit Board of Your Dreams: A Deep Dive Into Peter Drucker’s Insights

Bloomerang

His extensive work on effective leadership and organizational success offers valuable lessons for structuring boards that not only meet but surpass organizational goals. Building the nonprofit board of your dreams is a team effort. They think ‘we:’ they think ‘team.’” They don’t think ‘I.’

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