I recently joined the advisory board of the Leadership Learning Community.  Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work, facilitated by an excellent outside consultant.   Board retreats, day long meetings, can be potentially be deadly -- sitting most of the time and hearing a parade of reports.  However, this was far from it.  Not only was the work on trying to figure out outcomes (and the measures) stimulating,  we also … [Read more...]

The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival theme is how can nonprofits move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset.  Yesterday, I wrote a post thinking about how this relates to self-care from an organizational culture perspective.   But from an individual perspective, it is about creating a new "good" habit around self-care and starting with some small steps or what BJ Fogg calls "Tiny Habits."   So, I decided to sign up and give it a try with a tiny habit I have been wanting to establish. I … [Read more...]

The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset.   I've been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit:  Impact without Burnout book I'm writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: "Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?"  The scarcity mindset exists when it comes to self-care because there is a lack … [Read more...]