The 7 Levers of Nonprofit Leadership
Are you using the 7 levers of nonprofit leadership to prevent burnout?
As a leader of a nonprofit, you need more time, money, and help. To stretch the time, money, and help—you leverage your leadership. How do you do this? You use as many of your seven levers of nonprofit leadership as possible. This video explores the 7 levers and invites you to start using them to prevent burnout.
Chapters of the 7 Levers of Nonprofit Leadership
00:00 How levers help you lead and prevent burnout
00:33 Lever 1: You
00:44 Lever 2: Vision
00:58 Lever 3: Word
01:12 Lever 4: Prioritize
01:38 Lever 5 Forest
02:00 Lever 6: Help
02:21 Lever 7 Gold
02:47 A Challenge
More Burnout Prevention Resources
Preventing burnout comes with the nonprofit leaders’ job description. In almost all cases, the way to prevent burnout is not to work harder. Instead, it is to step away from the flame and figure out how to improve your approach to challenges.
Here’s are three invitations to step back and refresh.
- Do your board meetings stress you and your staff out?
- Sometimes to de-stress, your brain needs some fuel.
Feed your brain with one or more of these 30 Leadership Activities for Growth.
- Or maybe it’s time to get real about what it means to serve others in the nonprofit sector.
Do you have specific stressors you’d like to tackle? Don’t hesitate to reach out.
