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

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You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. To provide specific guidance, I attended the board meeting and presented an evaluation along with recommendations for how the group could lead more effectively.”. I’m not suggesting that you level the cake. Understand the Options.

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Amazon delivery app Mentor tracks drivers’ locations and measures their performance

The Verge

Amazon built its own in-house mobile app called Mentor that it uses to track the location and rate the performance of third-party delivery drivers, according to a new report from CNBC.

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When Nonprofit Boards Meddle: The Dangers Of Micromanagement

Bloomerang

Every nonprofit board should conduct annual self-assessments to evaluate how effectively they’re governing and whether they’re overstepping into management. That’s fair, but in situations like these, a newbie executive usually requires some mentoring and coaching to be effective and to speed up the pace of her learning curve.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. Assigning a mentor is one of the most effective strategies to ensure that new directors get up to speed quickly. Mentors also can perform the very important function of providing background and color to the board’s activities. Use the Buddy System.

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Mentor New York’s Virtual Fundraising Event Raises 12x Their Fundraising Goal With CauseVox

CauseVox

This was the scenario for Mentor New York, a nonprofit that works with companies, schools and organizations to provide mentoring for organizations that serve more than 80,000 young people in New York. Like most nonprofits, Mentor New York had to pivot during the pandemic to virtual events and engagement for its supporters.

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To lead in DEI: Disrupting inequality requires disrupting culture  

Candid

Then, based on our findings, we implemented new initiatives to respond to the needs of our staff, such as “Career Conversations,” which requires managers to discuss career plans with all direct reports, not just those with whom they already had a mentor-mentee relationship.

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