Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “Emerging Leaders Playbook,” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development. We learned a lot from this project about how best support … [Read more...]
Book Review: Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership
I'm a huge fan of Joan Garry's blog and podcast. I consider the "Dear Abby" of the nonprofit world, dispensing practical and brilliant advice to nonprofits with her wonderful sense of humor. Joan has been an executive director, board member, donor, and volunteer - so she brings to her consulting and educator practice so much perspective and wisdom. She has packed all that into her new book, "Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership." I was honored to write a book blurb after reading an … [Read more...]
A Few More Tips for Nonprofit Professionals To Avoid Getting Overwhelmed
This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. I'm overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you? Last week, Aliza Sherman and I published a guest post, "Three Techniques To Avoid Getting Overwhelmed in 2017" on Nancy Schwartz's Getting Attention Blog, based on some ideas in our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. … [Read more...]
The Top Nonprofit Social CEO Awards
While some people are experiencing a social media hangover, especially on Facebook and taking a step back from social, using social media professionally in support of your organization's strategic goals is still more important than ever. With declines in public trust and the continuing need to raise more money, nonprofit leaders will need to strategically leverage organizational and professional networks. Every year Social CEOs hosts an annual award where they seek nominations for the top 30 … [Read more...]
Curiosity Kills Bad Work Habits
The topic of habit change is something that Aliza Sherman and I researched and experimented with as we wrote "The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout" over the last year. Habit change research was one of our favorite rabbit holes to explore. It lead us to discover the works of Gretchen Rubin, Charles Duhigg, BJ Fogg, and others. As we wrote chapters on the book, we examined our own unhealthy habits and experimented applying some of the methods. This recent article on INC by Emily … [Read more...]
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