by Kate Cochran on June 20, 2022
Categories: Current Issue| Leadership and Management
Topic Tags: Strategic Planning
Do your employees know when they are doing a good job? If you were to ask your team what the most important thing the organization needs to accomplish this year, would you get consistent answers? When your organization’s managers write performance reviews, do they evaluate specific, mutually agreed-upon goals or do they write in generalities about some broad job description? In the nonprofit world, we can sometimes get caught up in day-to-day firefighting. We forget how important it is for leaders to take the time to define what success looks like in clear, preferably quantitative terms. Quantitative goals lessen the …
In many nonprofits, a time comes when the question arises: should the organization accept personal loans from board members? This article does not try to answer that question. It does try to outline — very briefly — some of the choices in how …
In our April issue, we asked you to offer your thoughts on how the current political landscape will affect your organization’s funding. Your answers weren’t surprising, but they weren’t optimistic either. That’s understandable. It’s tough …
At some point you may resign from a nonprofit board before your term is up. You might be angry, disappointed, or just too busy. Don’t botch your resignation: do it right. Most often as board members we stick out our term limits and leave …
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