Take a moment and a deep breath to recognize your achievements during the pandemic. Wow! Now let’s talk about one common cost of pandemic success —decision fatigue. Decision fatigue is a thing recognized by AMA. The symptoms will seem familiar: · procrastination · impulsivity · avoiding choices and indecision. When you suffer from decision fatigue, your brains seek shortcuts (it uses your[…]
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Bummer, you missed this Karen’s CEO Major Gift Conversation, but never fear all is not lost! Here is a snippet from the conversation where our special guest asks answers a questions about asking for transformational gifts plus a way to sign up for future event information. Here’s more about Major Gifts: Behind the Scene CEO[…]
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Are you looking for ways to make your board more accountable? More than 50 percent of nonprofit CEOs are frustrated about their board’s accountability. Nonprofit board accountability and engagement includes ensuring that your nonprofit stewards the resources it receives and follows all ethical and legal requirements, and more. The MORE is where CEOs and executive[…]
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So, how can you keep your nonprofit employees now? Nonprofits are no strangers to high employee turnover. Before the pandemic, the sector’s rate was 7 percent higher than all turnover, and now the national rate hovers at 25 percent. So, if nonprofits continue to exceed the national rate, one in three of your employees will[…]
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You feel it in your gut first when good board members have bad fundraising ideas. You’re in a board meeting discussing fundraising someone comes up with a bad fundraiser idea. Then other members start agreeing with it. What do you do when good board members start to fall in love with labor intensive, poor return,[…]
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In the last year, have you had a performance appraisal? Even before the pandemic, many, if not most, nonprofit CEOs and executive directors had not. (45 percent, Daring to Lead, 75 percent Social Impact Architecture.) You may feel you’re better off without an evaluation because CEO assessments can create wounds, discouragement, and exit plans when[…]
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In four years, would you like to– Grow your six-figure donors by 30 percent? Develop an event that attracts 75,000 people? Earn 50 percent more from foundations such as Carnegie, Gates, Rockefeller, and MacArthur? While this article can’t promise you that, it shares how the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) achieved these feats. It[…]
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How often have you made a critical decision in the last two weeks? In all likelihood, too many! Nonprofit leaders have faced weighty, rapid, and consequential choices, which is just a bit exhausting for you, your board, and your staff. This is why you’ll benefit from these conversation notes from Karen’s interview with Brian Greene.[…]
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It’s frustrating when you ask your board to help–for them to be engaged–and everyone looks at their phones. You need board engagement so the board gets more done and has more fun. In years of advising nonprofit CEOs, I find board struggles with two main issues: too much involvement, that is, they micromanage and not[…]
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This year is going to be your year, you know it. How can you practice excellent leadership habits to make your fabulous New Year even better? And ones that don’t leave you exhausted and worn out? Employ these best practices as your leadership habits. 1. Ask, How Can I Do this Task More Easily? Most of[…]
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