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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the key qualities and skills you look for in potential board members?” Of course, qualities such as financial expertise, legal knowledge, and leadership are all welcomed and useful additions; however they are not in place of the most important quality — caring.

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Discussing a Change in Leadership with Your Donors

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This is especially true when discussing with donors a change in leadership at your school, foundation, or nonprofit. If a changing of the guard hasnt happened to your organization yet, it will. Listen with Empathy During times of change, listening with empathy becomes a crucial skill.

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Change Management = Changing Mindset

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All of this is change. The actual process of changing takes true leadership, whether in our personal or professional lives. My organizational leadership mind had alarm bells ringing so loudly that I thought people could hear them. Nothing dooms a project more than failed change management in an organization.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Technological change – new software and systems.

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Strategies for Building a Future-Ready Association in 2025 and Beyond 

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Key Actions : Encourage Lifelong Learning : Invest in professional development opportunities for your staff, with a focus on digital skills and emerging technologies. Regular training keeps your team adaptable and prepared for change. Regularly assessing the external landscape keeps your organization agile and responsive to change.

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Strategic Leadership: What a Nonprofit Leader Really Needs to Know about IT

NTEN

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology. CEO and Co-Founder. Confluence.

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Going First: The first step to transformational leadership starts with taking it

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Want to see leadership in action? If we think about the idea of leadership as being at the front of the line, we find both opportunity and obligation. Change Management jeff shuck Leadership leadership skills Plenty Consulting tech leadership' Jeff Shuck. Plenty Consulting.