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Promoted to a leadership role? Here’s how to make the ‘player-to-coach’ transition seamlessly

Fast Company Tech

This anxiety-induced thought played like a broken record in my head as my first leadership training event approached in my new role as a training director. This new role pushed me out of the payment division into the retail branch banking side. Who am I to tell them how to make decisions? Of course that was the answer.

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The Four Key Fundraising Roles of Your Board of Directors

The Fundraising Authority

But, in order to be successful, your entire team needs to understand the proper role of the board in fundraising. I have found that there are four key fundraising roles your board members can play that will help your non-profit immensely: The Board as Fundraising Visionaries (Leadership). The Board as Donors.

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When Nonprofit Boards Meddle: The Dangers Of Micromanagement

Bloomerang

One of the most common complaints of executive directors is board micromanagement. 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. The result?

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One of the world’s largest architecture firms offers a blueprint for successful co-leadership

Fast Company Tech

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. The prior CEOs, who actually were mentors to both of us, have now stepped into global chair roles. Elizabeth Brink: The co-leadership model is pretty deep in the organization.

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5 Ways to Build a Digital Community that will Transform Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Both inbound and outbound engagement play a critical role in fostering relationships and expanding an organization’s online presence. See the example below: It’s also important to communicate the value of an advocate’s role. Inbound Engagement is the foundation of authentic relationships. Offer personal thank-you’s.

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When Does Interim Nonprofit Leadership Make Sense?

Blue Avocado

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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Nonprofit Leadership Isn’t Perfect, and That’s the Point

Blue Avocado

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.