Summer is upon us! The trees are green, the bugs are buzzing, and the sun is shining. And nothing goes better with summertime than a refreshing cocktail. With Covid-19 vaccines rolling out and the high hopes for a continued decrease in Covid’s impact, it seemed like the right time to blow the dust off of this blog article from several years ago to celebrate where we’ve come since last year.
Choosing a Nonprofit Strategic Planning Consultant: 7 Factors You Should Consider
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How to Create Your Organization’s Core Values
Organizational values can be tricky to identify. You and your team likely value many things -- justice, quality, collaboration, innovation, etc. If you’re not careful, you’ll create a long list of values that sounds like the values of any organization.
That’s why we base our approach on the values identification model put forth in Pat Lencioni’s book, The Advantage.
Top 10 Quotes for Strengthening Your Organization
In my customer work I try to communicate powerful concepts in simple and memorable ways. One of my favorite tools to do this is using relevant and powerful quotes.
To that end I've collected scores of quotes during my career. Whittling that collection down to a "top 10" for this article was a tough exercise. Many excellent quotes didn't make the final list.
I ended up choosing this list because these are the quotes that I find most inspiring for myself and our customers. I hope you find them helpful.
Tips on Eating Frogs
A Simple Research-based Tip for Setting More Effective Goals
For several years we’ve told our clients that there are two types of goals: process goals and results goals. For example, a process goal may be "to write one grant per month." The correlating results goal might be "to acquire $100K in new funding this year."
So, for these goals, the question is: "Which goal will help us get the result we want -- the $100K?" The correct answer is "it depends.”
Research Indicates a Strong Positive Correlation Between Strategic Planning and the Fundraising Success of Small Nonprofits
Death by Meeting
I've borrowed the title for this blog entry from one of my favorite business books, Death by Meeting by Pat Lencioni. The basic idea of the book is not that you'll die by meetings. Rather, you might die from awful meetings.
As you know, awful meetings happen all the time. They take too long. They wander aimlessly. They don’t start or end on time. You’d pretty much rather be anywhere else.