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

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You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Understand the Options.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. A collegial attitude that contributes to productive relationships. Promote Collaboration Creative people understand the power of group thinking.

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Make the Champion Disruptor Your Catalyst for Change—Use AI to Drive Transformation

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We can decide what experiences and relationships to create.” Evaluate the Road Ahead As the oracle of data, AI gives you an unprecedented ability to predict environmental shifts. Then going a step further, AI can evaluate that information and make recommendations for addressing the shortfalls. Yes, AI is the mega disruptor.

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Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

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Data that accurately reflects your members and their preferences is the key to trust, engagement, and enduring relationships. Review Systematically How do you evaluate whether your organization’s data is pristine, polluted, or somewhere in the murky in-between? Much of the data in your systems is not yours. It belongs to your members.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Isolation taught us the value of the relationships and the technology that sustained our communities. But the relationships we cultivated over years were critical in the early days.” I’ve always understood the importance of relationships,” Kristine noted.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Early in our relationship, my executive coach reminded me that every CEO gets the organization they deserve.

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