Dr. Lester Salamon, author, professor and director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies was the keynote speaker at Imagine Canada's Symposium "Learning from the World: Canada's Charitable & Nonprofit Sector through...
A recent study of executive directors in the nonprofit sector reveals troubling indicators of burnout, isolation, poor compensation and benefits, and excessive demands. The nonprofit sector is at risk of losing leadership and management skill sets as these individuals leave...
Do you create or participate in alliances, coalitions or partnerships? Do you ever wonder if your time should be spent in such a process? Have you explored the question of the likelihood of success? More time, energy and resources are...
Introduction Many people spend a considerable portion of their business day in meetings. This article is written to provide you with a few ideas to help you run your meetings more effectively. The benefits of meetings Meetings can have several...
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...
Fifteen years ago, my husband and I had a dream of making our little commercial sector stronger by bringing together isolated businesses in our field into a new national association. Since then, we have put thousands of hours into this...
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...
With the speed of change in the non-profit environment the movement of senior people between organizations is increasing and as such an organization can find itself with an interim executive director. In the past this meant having the interim executive...
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...
As human beings, we all have a certain amount of neophobia - the fear of something new. Changes can be frightening, confusing, as well as rewarding and valuable. Change can bring out the best and worst in people, depending on...
