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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. Although we are all more aware of the benefits of diversity, one of the remaining hurdles is resistance to representation from outside of an association’s professional sphere. Set Expectations. Use the Buddy System.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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They should explain their activities and how they interface with staff and other finance professionals. If you’ve paired new members with a mentor, make sure financial topics are included in their post-orientation meetings. Members join an association board because they want to make a difference for their profession and society.

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Hire Fresh Talent—But Before You Shop, Check the Fridge

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You don’t have to spend much time on the site to understand the difference between outstanding and dismal. Applicants are seeking work/life balance, personal fulfillment, and career development. Personal fulfillment, career development, and work/life balance are among the intangibles that applicants are seeking.

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How To Coach With Compassion

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The coaching with compassion method is based on five steps for intentional change , which the authors teach in the book using rich, inspiring and real-life stories and science-based, heavily researched exercises. And, this type of coaching is different from mentoring, which can sometimes last over decades.

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10 Essential Strategies For Surviving Bad Nonprofit Bosses

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Bad nonprofit bosses come in many different forms and are a result of personality, background, and character flaws. Each point captures a different scenario and corresponds with the list of coping strategies. Learning on the job is exceptionally crucial at every stage of life.

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Debbie Laskey On Mentoring

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When I think about excellent mentors in the business world, I think of Debbie Laskey , who has mentored many people during her career. Debbie is passionate about mentoring. So, she's an ideal person to answer the following five questions about mentoring: 1. Why do you enjoy being a mentor? Three months? Six months?

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Multigenerational Training Workforce: A Comprehensive Guide

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Generational training helps the L&D team build a multi-generational workplace by training different age groups to understand each other and work together towards a common business goal. Understanding the generational similarities and differences between Boomers, Gen X, and now Gen Z. That’s where generational training helps.

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