Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Gen Z isnt quiet quittingtheyre rejecting outdated leadership. Workplace culture is changing fast, and leadership needs to evolve with it. But as the dust settles on this conversation, Ive been thinking about a different question: If leadership needs to evolve, what role does Gen Z play in shaping the change they want?

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2025

While the governance landscape has evolved, the strategies and leadership insights shared here remain timeless. Staff were expected to practice the same transparency with leadership and committee members. Are you fostering an entrepreneurial culture within your leadership team? Trust wasnt just a top-down initiative.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 12, 2025

Leadership lessons are everywheresometimes even in a crowded YMCA pool. Determined to get ahead of them the next time, I prepped meticulously, loaded the lesson with skill-building drills, and checked all the traditional boxes. Recently, I started teaching my grandnieces, Vaitea (5) and Hoolai (4), how to swim. The girls were pumped.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

By Brian Greenwald is a Brand Leadership expert and nonprofit superfan who helps extraordinary organizations transform from commoditized brands to human-centered, character-based Benevolent Business brands. Brian serves as the Founder of BPOZ Brand Leadership and is a Founding Partner of Curious Collaborations. Clear as mud?

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2025

Foster an Agile Leadership and Governance Model What We Learned Many associations struggle with slow decision-making and rigid governance structures. Agile leadership allows organizations to adapt quickly , align board and staff priorities, and embrace a culture of innovation. Do we have a succession plan for leadership and key roles?

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether internal issues, external challenges or both are affecting your ability to maintain and advance your mission, searching for and securing strong fundraising leadership and investing more resources in your development team can help you build a more resilient nonprofit organization.

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.orgSource

MAY 28, 2024

Sue’s deep experience with boards and leadership makes her the perfect resource for a conversation about coaching new and more seasoned directors. I was eager to hear Sue’s ideas about the importance of focusing the board on qualities like empathy, self-knowledge, and strong social skills to build a productive environment.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 25, 2023

Since leading a nonprofit involves so many moving targets, it can be easy to forget to build the people around you. Remembering the lyrics from a Spice Girls song might help you with this essential-but-often-overlooked part of leadership.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

At a time of a leadership transition, planned or unplanned, more and more organizations are using interim leaders (aka interims) to help the board address organizational challenges, large and small, that may have existed during the tenure of the previous leader. Plus, the interims role was malleable and aligned with the boards objectives.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, we judged it essential to set additional goals that had equal weight in their importance – ours were to use the strategic planning process to build strong teams and leaders and to create a culture that informed, reflected, and reinforced our values. Build teams and leaders. Get clear on foundational principles.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. Elizabeth Brink: The co-leadership model is pretty deep in the organization. I had stepped in on building a lot of our work around our people and culture. and Fast Company.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

Steps to Define Your Vision and Goals: Engage Stakeholders: Involve leadership, staff, and members in developing your vision. Assess Current Capabilities and Identify Gaps To build a roadmap, you first need to understand where you are today. A shared vision ensures alignment and buy-in across the organization.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

For those struggling to find the time or knowledge to get started, building out a lightweight framework can help combat both those obstacles. Members of the leadership team should become accustomed to asking for data to support requests for additional budget and new initiatives. Choose a few to start with and build from there.

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.orgSource

MAY 14, 2024

At.orgCommunity’s March 13 Leadership ColLAB, the group discussed how to use technology to put HEART into our relationships with our members, staff, and constituents. The HEART framework turns attention back to community building. The post.orgCommunity Leadership ColLAB Gets to the HEART of Technology appeared first on.orgSource.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This is especially true when discussing with donors a change in leadership at your school, foundation, or nonprofit. Empathy : When youre practicing empathy, youre taking the time and effort to fully appreciate how a donor is feeling about the change in leadership. And most organizations are not ready.

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2025

These might include mission-related outcome s, operational efficiency targets, or capacity-building initiatives. That can improve their donor stewardship, building trust and increasing recurring gifts. Want to learn more about how to get leadership buy-in for your organizations technology investments?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Over time, it takes a toll on confidence , clarity, and leadership presence. Stating, Thanks for building on my idea from earlier, signals ownership without confrontation. It builds a culture of mutual respect. Thats similar to what I shared earliermaybe we can build on that. This isnt just annoyingits a visibility issue.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If her supervisor had recognized Sue’s weaknesses, she could have been coached to build the strengths she needed to succeed. The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy. “The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy. The digital age is all about leadership.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

At the moment, confidence in leadership is at an all time low, according to the 2024 Leadership Confidence Index. But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an organization designed, albeit unintentionally, to produce bad leaders.

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.orgSource

APRIL 2, 2022

The post Get Them to Build Castles—Strategies for Successful Cross-Functional Teams appeared first on.orgSource. The left brain uses emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and artful facilitation to keep all the players working productively together. The more diverse the group, the harder the left brain must work. […].

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

National Leadership Day, which takes place every Feb. 20 , offers a chance to reflect on what truly defines leadership not just strategy or decision-making, but the ability to build trust. Empowerment is a key strategy in building trust. As an economist , I know theres a lot of research proving this point.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

If you want to turn one-time donors into lifelong supporters, you need to build out a new, personalized donor cultivation journey. When you prioritize emotional connections using personalized outreach, youre building relationships that transcend transactions. Cultivation done right isnt a cost center, however, its a revenue center.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

An expert on branding startups, executive leadership, governance, and more, Allison has deep roots in the association community. She’s also the author of two books, “Building Your Brand” and “Connect to Influence.” “The Then build your identity on LinkedIn. Freelancing is a good alternative,” Allison advised.

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Futurism

APRIL 14, 2025

With its leadership being increasingly called into question and with seemingly more embarrassments than victories to its name, Apple engineers outside the group bestowed it a cruel nickname: "AIMLess," according to the Information. His leadership style is the opposite of Giannandrea's: tough and demanding, according to the Information.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. The leadership qualities we identified hold. In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Give your leadership skills a twist. Association 4.0

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In September 2024, Candid and ABFE published two fact sheets about Black nonprofit leadership : Key Facts about Nonprofits with Majority Black Leadership and Key Facts about Nonprofits with Black CEOs. Invest in early to mid-career staff: Create leadership development programs for staff other than the executive staff.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

The technique caught widespread attention after Chinas DeepSeek used it to build powerful and efficient AI models based on open source systems released by competitors Meta and Alibaba.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The nonprofit sector is already a high-pressure environment, and when boards meddle in daily operations, it creates chaos, demoralizes leadership, erodes culture, and derails mission-critical activities. When that trust is broken—or was never established—friction builds, and the organization suffers.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The requirements for effective leadership have not changed all that much. The post Build a Board for the Digital Future appeared first on.orgSource. Although technology seems increasingly complex, the path to wise decisions is straightforward. It depends on rejecting recycled ideas and looking ahead to bold new propositions.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Consider building personalized benefit packages that reflect the unique needs of your team. Regular training, open conversations, and diverse leadership help everyone feel respected and valued. Encourage team-building activities that foster understanding and collaboration. Recognition isnt just a feel-good gesture.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In those cases, Id wait to ensure that this high performer is making an effort to work on leadership quality, including their peer relationships. Leadership requires a new skill set and, just as importantly,the respect and trust of your peers. Leadership starts with accountability. Have you been overly competitive?Dismissive

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Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

These articles explain the role volunteers play in building community relationships and resilience. Beyond fundraising: How building community strengthens nonprofit sustainability. Volunteers are an integral part of the work nonprofits do, not only supporting their day-to-day operations but driving their core missions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

This is why open, ongoing conversations between leadership and employees are essential. Some individuals thrive on new challenges and leadership opportunities, while others value better work-life balance, financial recognition, or deeper involvement in projects they truly care about. Motivation isn’t one-size-fits-all.

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Charity Village

JANUARY 23, 2025

Yet over 40% of nonprofits face financial instability, and many struggle to keep up […] The post Building resilient nonprofits: The impact centered design approach appeared first on CharityVillage. million people and supported by 13 million volunteers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. They want to feel connected to their leadership and understand the values and the objectives of the company. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! and Fast Company.

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