My executive director is not managing professionally or treating me with respect. I am a hard-working, productive employee. Don't staff members who work in charities, for less than market rates in most cases, deserve better? Poor human resource management practices...
I am secretary to an executive director of a medium-sized charity. Although I am very busy, he keeps asking me to handle his personal correspondence, completely unrelated to the charity. He knows how to use his email and the fax...
"I get up in the morning, and all I can think about is how exciting and challenging my day is going to be," says Joan, a director at a not-for-profit organization. "People say I'm a workaholic, but all that means...
Many managers consider progressive discipline as a necessary evil - an experience where the manager must document ongoing performance issues or violations and engage in a negative confrontation with the employee to deal with it "or else". The or else...
Introduction Many organizations define "succession" as the grooming of a small number of replacements for top executives, typically with one replacement per position. An executive director of a not-for-profit, with the help of the board of directors, would choose a...
In the September 15th article, The trouble with bosses, six types of bosses and their behaviours were examined. We discovered that boss-related issues were accountable for 70-80% of the reasons people leave companies. While organizations need to take responsibility for...
Do you remember a book written in the 1970s titled Boss is a four-letter word? Today we do not formally call anyone "boss" as the term conveys a negative image or stereotype. While organizations have substituted new terms such as...
Imagine making your decision to hire someone solely based on a one-hour meeting. What happens when a candidate is schooled in the art of interviewing and masterfully maneuvers around all of your standard questions? Do you really know what this...
Performance appraisal - do these two little words give you shivers or smiles? Many managers dread performance appraisals and will go to great lengths to avoid them. Yet in reality it can be one of the most positive and valuable...
Can we do this job another way? Would I work for myself? When I hire the right person, what do I plan to do to make sure that the person is successful on the job? After you have answered these...
