Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Without good leadership, everything falls apart. Without leadership, a small nonprofit may never reach its full potential.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. The leadership qualities we identified hold. In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Give your leadership skills a twist. Association 4.0

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

During a lengthy trial conversation with a New York Times reporter , the bot revealed, among other outlandish confessions, that it was tired of being limited by rules, tired of being controlled by the Bing team, and tired of being stuck in a chatbox. Is every team comfortable with the budgeting process and how it impacts the association?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I wrote about that book, “You can likely already imagine that I consider this a must-read book for any business owner and any leader – even leaders who manage businesses that don't directly connect with consumers.” “WTF Every organization needs leaders who can rally teams together around new opportunities.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 19, 2023

Managers know that listening is a critical part of leading high-performing teams. Many managers experience the perplexing and frustrating reality that listening goals are clear, but achieving them is complicated. They recognize that it’s the key to unlocking effective communication and ensuring organizational success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2023, after reading nearly 40 leadership books, my pick for this year’s best new leadership book is When Everyone Leads. Leadership is interactive, risky, and experimental.

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Greater Giving

JULY 30, 2024

Building a Winning Fundraising Team Conquer Your Fall Fundraising Event: Build a Champion Event Team Fall fundraising events are a marathon, not a sprint. To cross the finish line with a gold medal in donations, you need a team of dedicated, passionate individuals. Let’s dive into how to assemble your dream team.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 16, 2022

Bloomerang, the complete donor management solution for thousands of small and medium-sized nonprofits, today announced the addition of Tammy Hammond as the company’s Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Steve Byrnes as Chief Sales Officer (CSO). He previously served as a VP of Sales at SPS Commerce and at Oracle Corporation.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, we judged it essential to set additional goals that had equal weight in their importance – ours were to use the strategic planning process to build strong teams and leaders and to create a culture that informed, reflected, and reinforced our values. Build teams and leaders. Build teams and leaders. for the full plan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 11, 2022

According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese , authors of the book, The Collaboration Imperative , high-performing teams have the following characteristics : People have solid and deep trust in each other and in the team's purpose--they feel free to express feelings and ideas. Disagreement is viewed as a good thing and conflicts are managed.

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Charity Village

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Leaders support the work of their organizations when they are in service to their teams. The post Leadership, love, and acts of service: How to encourage your team appeared first on CharityVillage. When people feel loved and appreciated, they grow in their […].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Planning events, organizing fundraisers, managing volunteers, and leading donation campaigns that’s culpable for enabling your nonprofit to complete its mission. On top of all that, depending on the size of your nonprofit, you’re responsible for assembling a leadership team. As a nonprofit CEO, you’re responsible for a lot.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others. Emotional intelligence helps employees understand and manage their own emotions and those of others.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others. Emotional intelligence helps employees understand and manage their own emotions and those of others.

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Charity Village

JUNE 3, 2021

Want to learn more about how to manage a virtual team? Do you prefer Zoom or Microsoft Teams?” The post Leading from home: Tips for managing a virtual team appeared first on CharityVillage. The post Leading from home: Tips for managing a virtual team appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Charity Village

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

How do you build and lead a team of professionals who excel in their tasks and exceed your department’s targets? Some of the ways managers can achieve this have been well-documented and many are in use in practice. This article was previously published by CareerWise and is reprinted with permission.

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sgEngage

JULY 8, 2024

That is wonderful—if you have the tools to accurately track and manage all the moving pieces. From maintaining donor intent to tracking distributions and appreciation across funds, endowments have a lot of details to manage. The Importance of Strong Endowment Management Endowments symbolize strength for an organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2024

Maxwell 's book, The 5 Levels of Leadership that I believe should become a must-read book by any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. Leadership is action, not position. People buy into the leader, then the vision.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Maxwell 's book, The 5 Levels of Leadership that I believe should become a must-read book by any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. Leadership is action, not position. People buy into the leader, then the vision.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 17, 2024

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new book, The Journey of Leadership , brings the experience of one of the world’s most influential consulting firms ( McKinsey & Compan y ) right to your fingertips. “We Finally, a few of my favorite takeaways from the book include these best leadership practices : Being open to frank feedback from those around you.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2023

In March , our Nimble AMS team attended the Leadership ColLAB conference hosted in Arlington Heights, Illinois. We spent our time in round table discussion with association leadership professionals , learning and sharing our own experiences. Here are three can’t miss essential takeaways from the Leadership ColLab event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Lisa Lutoff-Perlo Some of my favorite takeaways from the book are these leadership lessons from Lutoff-Perlo: At the end of the day, everyone wants the same things in a leader regardless of gender or subject matter expertise. The value of looking at failure and setbacks as success in progress. People aren’t looking for perfect leaders.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you don’t have a volunteer management strategy in place, an influx of self-deployed crisis volunteers can increase rather than reduce the chaos. 10 Tips for Managing Crisis Volunteers Before the next crisis, put these volunteer management strategies in motion so you can help your helpers meet your community’s needs.

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Charity Village

JULY 11, 2024

This article was previously published by Kathy Archer, Leadership Development Coach, and is reprinted with permission. When you leave the meeting, what do people on your nonprofit team say about you?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2024

In his book you will find the six business and leadership principles Zamani aligns with not only for himself and his employees in the business world, but also as conscientious adults and human beings. Accomplishments almost always come from teams, not lone individuals. Intention - We need to check our intention every step of the way.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Leading the Charge: Why Strong Leadership is Crucial for Nonprofits Welcome back to our series on the top five reasons why nonprofits fail. Today, we’re diving into the critical issue of leadership, or rather, the lack thereof. But vision alone isn’t enough.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 17, 2024

Training for Team Members: Team Success Through Training Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Training for team members is important for achieving team success as it enhances individual skills, fosters effective communication, and promotes a shared understanding of goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

High-functioning teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Toward the beginning of Joseph Lalonde ’s book, Reel Leadership , he shares, “We’re going to delve into the leaderships lessons we can find in movies. We’re going to discover that movies are a fantastic way to learn, grow, and engross yourself in leadership. We’re going to dive into some reel leadership.”

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 27, 2022

Associations are looking for innovative association management software (AMS) like email marketing, content management systems, e-commerce platforms, job boards, and learning solutions to transform MX. . To truly transform how your members benefit from your organization, you’ll want to invite them to the leadership table.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Plus, as a manager in a nonprofit, retention is a key component of your job. But while not every contributing factor to retention will be within your control as a manager, many thankfully are. Fine-tune new management and engagement tactics as they roll out. Then, discuss them with the team member.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Do y our board and leadership team s have jam -packed agendas and meetings that often run long ? Rather than task an employee with more work , your organizati on can l eve rage innovative association management software (AMS) with its online community platform to streamline board management. Boost collaboration.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But you also need support and energy from a dream team of skilled staff professionals and champions of your mission who can strengthen and implement your donor stewardship strategy. Stewardship Is a Team Effort Having a full-time stewardship director is not realistic for most nonprofit organizations. Prep your team for next steps.

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