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

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. It’s a structure that preserves accountability.

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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

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Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.

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25 Years of VolunteerHub – Employees Reflect on the Company and Culture

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Whether it’s something structured like a weekly sales meeting or casual like trivia or happy-hour, time is always taken to get to know one another on a personal level. The post 25 Years of VolunteerHub – Employees Reflect on the Company and Culture appeared first on VolunteerHub. View Job Openings.

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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It’s an exercise that will provide the opportunity to explore lessons learned in training and reflect on how they impact real-life situations. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. Your committee should reflect the diversity that they are assigned to propagate.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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The afternoon was a space for structured interaction between participants to examine their impact leadership questions and to provide some peer advice. The small group exercises required that each person practice facilitated listening. Above is a word cloud of the transcribed burning questions. Overnight Reflection.

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Build a Board for the Digital Future

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We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. Leaders and decision-makers should reflect those changes. Garth Jordan, CEO of the American Animal Hospital Association , talked about how that attitude aligns with the Board’s relationship with the executive director and the staff. “We’re To me, that’s basic.

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