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Your board is responsible for setting policy, guiding strategy and overseeing the CEO. It's members act as guardians of the organization

Strategies to improve communication

What value is securing more resources for your mission

How is your organization helping Champions give?

What value is simplifying your message to grow the mission? Learn 10 simple rules.

Champions are out there. Are you connecting them to your cause?

Champions are bombarded by the cacophony of messages daily. What do people do when we blast them with irrelevant noise? They ignore us.  

working without a clear strategy often leads to a sense of confusion and darkness.

Each of us is unique, observed Viktor Frankl. Our existence is characterized by freedom of choice, personal responsibility, & human spirit.

Help others get to where they are going

General Electric started out in 1889 making light bulbs. It’s businesses at one time or another included electricity, lighting, RCA, NBC,...

Coach for Performance & Development to Grow Mission Impact Earlier in my career, I worked for Owens-Corning in research & development. My...

Six Leadership Styles Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence studied 6 essential leadership styles and offers his insight in...

The world keeps changing. It is one of the paradoxes of success that the things and ways which got you there are seldom those things that...

Looking for a new tool is the first step to finding it

Plan for tomorrow today The last three months have been crazy. There are internal fires to put out and external changes creating...

Open your eyes. Every moment is an opportunity. A gift.

Daily, we learn about a crisis or upheaval disrupting a person’s life that may or may not be resolved by making personal changes. When I was in seventh grade, I realized my mom struggled with alcoholism. Each member of my family used a different method to deal with the crisis. Dad turned into a workaholic, my brother went on walkabouts and my sister married and moved away. I realized that I hung around healthy people; my grandparents and friends with healthy families and lovi

Identifying our nonprofit's customers Today, we dig into the second of Peter Drucker’s five simple but powerful questions. Question 2. Who is our customer? This is a tricky question for nonprofits because there are multiple levels of customers. Not everyone is a customer of everything. Primary Customer Primary customers are why the we exists. The primary customers are the ones we provide value in helping solve their problem and who must be satisfied . We may serve one or mul

What Are Our Results (what is the bottom line) Every business needs to answer, why are we here? What is our mission? What are our results? Peter Drucker pointed out that all organizations need to focus on results. We need to be performance focused instead of just well intentioned. Results are the key to survival. Performance is the ultimate test for any organization. Unfortunately, many businesses don’t prioritize performance and results. For many organizations, being sp