sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A good finance team will make sure bills are paid on time, reports are accurate, and the Board of Directors has access to the current financial statements. A good finance team will help you stay where you are. A good finance team will help you stay where you are. You want your team members to grow as your organization grows.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

For the time being, the bottom line seems to be, there is no substitute for intrinsically human skills. In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. Abilities rooted in a deep understanding of human behavior remain essential.

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.orgSource

MAY 14, 2024

They’re good at social skills like listening, empathy, and finding common ground. They are the teams that understand how to humanize business. At.orgCommunity’s March 13 Leadership ColLAB, the group discussed how to use technology to put HEART into our relationships with our members, staff, and constituents. AI is a superpower.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. Elizabeth Brink: The co-leadership model is pretty deep in the organization. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! and Fast Company. Though some U.S. JG: We have about 300 co-leaders.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? Of course, it’s important to consider skills. In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. Associations that treat culture as a skill set are reaping rewards from their investment. Associations that treat culture as a skill set are reaping rewards from their investment.

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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. They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This is especially true when discussing with donors a change in leadership at your school, foundation, or nonprofit. Listen with Empathy During times of change, listening with empathy becomes a crucial skill. Apply the same skills when youre discussing a change in leadership and your donors will feel seen and heard.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In those cases, Id wait to ensure that this high performer is making an effort to work on leadership quality, including their peer relationships. Leadership requires a new skill set and, just as importantly,the respect and trust of your peers. Leadership starts with accountability. Where do I start?

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

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.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

National Leadership Day, which takes place every Feb. 20 , offers a chance to reflect on what truly defines leadership not just strategy or decision-making, but the ability to build trust. Here are a few insights: Empower your team. By making trust-building a deliberate goal, leaders can create stronger, more resilient teams.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some of that adaptation will require higher educational attainment, or spending more time on activities that require social and emotional skills, creativity, high-level cognitive capabilities, and other skills relatively hard to automate.” Discover New Talent Skill building is also a way to discover hidden talent.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With disruption happening all around us, were here to upscale your team and ensure that your organization is ready to thrive, improving operational efficiencies and positioning you for success. Our survey shows that while many organizations value collaboration, theres often a need for digital literacy and alignment across teams.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

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. Pursue a limited set of vital priorities less is more.

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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. Look to the human skills to increase your stability and value. In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Like all big challenges, building a fundraising program is best tackled as a team, with your whole organization offering expertise and ideas in advance of the first campaign. It is always a bonus if your team has personal qualities like integrity, leadership skills, and outstanding manners. Be bold and get started!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Start by identifying colleagues in different teams whose work interests you. After we talked about cross-departmental networking, she connected with our marketing team and discovered they needed help interpreting customer data. Her advanced skills perfectly filled their gap, and her job satisfaction soared within weeks, if not days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership. Empathetic leadership, to us, is about seeing through the eyes of others. Therefore, we need to recognize and respect this dynamic as we lead and support our teams.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

That’s one of the perks of leadership. Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Helping others to rise can be even more rewarding.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

An expert on branding startups, executive leadership, governance, and more, Allison has deep roots in the association community. The Summit Award was an incredible boost for our team,” Allison recalled. million community members have been reached with information, skills, and services. million adolescent girls and more than 4.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). ALG founder and CEO Fred Swaniker started the organization as a leadership academy (now the African Leadership Academy ) for small cohorts of students. Image Credits: African Leadership Group.

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Candid

JANUARY 15, 2025

Professional growth can include developing new skills, taking on stretch assignments, learning from peers, and advocating for promotions. Thats why organizations spend thousands of dollars on all-staff retreats, team-building activities, and happy hours. Conversations about promotions often include senior leadership.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

The IT department didn’t always have a spot at the leadership table. If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines.

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Candid

JUNE 26, 2024

Our collection covers a variety of topics to meet you where you are in your nonprofit career—whether you’re brushing up on core skills, leveling up your leadership skills, or venturing beyond your comfort zone to get ahead of the curve on new technology. Here are nine free eBooks to check out for inspiration.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If, like my client, youre asking if its time to change your fundraising CRM , the starting point is understanding your current situation (your team, your data, and your needs) as well as your goals for the future. Training: What is the current skillset of your team and what is their capacity for adding new skills?

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Build the Human Skills AI and EI might seem to be an odd couple for any number of reasons. As a consultant, I’ve worked with associations of every description, and I’ve learned that the organizations that are most successful with digital transformation are also groups that value the human skills. Our teams are critically important.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

The management team leading the agency back to private business is headed by R/GAs global CEO, Robin Forbes, and chair and global chief creative officer Tiffany Rolfe. The response from both its employees and clients was positive, which gave the team confidence and momentum in speaking to potential suitors. What can’t they do?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Perhaps you’re already having conversations with your team about how you can begin on the path to digital transformation. Successful digital transformation doesn’t isolate itself within a single department or working group; it should change how every team and branch of your organization approaches its work.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Its not explicitly your job to fix your bosss problems (and you dont have the power or authority to do so if you arent in a leadership role). But, a manager sets the tone for their team and if they are burned out, their entire team will likely follow suit. Here are a few.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Getting an MBA takes time and money, making it inaccessible to many people who want to take charge in the business world.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

What personal competencies and skills will the new executive need to possess to lead your organization forward? Conduct an extensive targeted outreach to organizations and professional trade associations to identify potential candidates with the competencies, skills and personal attributes required.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Organizations also lose valuable institutional knowledge and skills when experienced employees quit, hampering innovation, continuity and long-term strategy. High-performing teams thrive when there is clear accountability, fair conflict resolution and a culture of feedback and learning.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These are all valuable skills, especially in a world where you get a fraction of a second to capture supporters attention. As a manager, I have hired full teams, helped lead the build out of new development departments, skilled up new team members, and dealt directly with turnover of a younger team.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Relief organizations have a roster of affiliated volunteers who are skilled in the work of disaster response, such as search and rescue. Many do not have specialized skills but do have a passion to help those left hungry or stranded by a flood, hurricane, or fire. Prevent burnout by scheduling volunteers in shifts of two or four hours.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A glance at the days headlines reveals a universal truth: Leadership matters. Research consistently shows that leadership influences employees attitudes, behaviors and emotions, driving key organizational outcomes such as creativity , employee engagement , well-being and financial performance. And this is especially true on the job.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? Our research shows that people who know how others see them are more skilled at showing empathy and taking others’ perspectives. “ Discover Yourself Both views are important for leaders who want to create positive cultures and strong teams. Begin with yourself. Be the change.

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