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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

We all understand that technology has changed business. The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? These are telltale signs: Your strategy has changed. Every change doesn’t need to happen at once.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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What has changed over time? What is changing in our industry? Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information. Adjust to changing circumstances. When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing. What is the future that we want? What is the future that we want to avoid?

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Facilitating with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. If you are curious about more techniques, I suggest David Staker’s “ Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes.”

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

What has changed over time? What is changing in our industry? Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information. Adjust to changing circumstances. When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing. What is the future that we want? What is the future that we want to avoid?

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. But there was agreement that membership retention and loyalty problems might be symptomatic of declining confidence. Maybe stale programming is stopping the love?

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The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity

NTEN

They keep it in structures that serve each platform and compel software developers to build integrations and connections (or not) so that their independent companies can sell in multiple markets. The inherent collaboration of nonprofit organizations globally drives the need for structures that facilitate exchanging nonprofit data.

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How Nonprofits Can Avoid Buyer’s Remorse for Fund Accounting Software

sgEngage

Is my fund structure correct? You don’t want to bring old problems into your new solution, so do a review of your chart of accounts, general ledger systems, payroll, and accounts payable to make sure what moves into your new system is correct. An external subject-matter expert can also assist with the change management aspect.

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