Socrates once said, "To find yourself, think for yourself." That quote embraces a basic principle for leading on social platforms: a true, genuine, and authentic personal brand. Being someone you are not is not only exhausting, but it will not be an effective if it isn't perceived as true. Extraordinary leaders know who they are and they simply need to apply it to their online social leadership profile. Emerging leaders may need to explore a bit more. Either way, an authentic profile … [Read more...]
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Book Review: When Millennials Take Over and the Fluid Workplace
I am knee deep in developing a peer learning program for Millennial leadership development in nonprofit organizations that is designed based on the research out there. The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant's "When Millennials Take Over," written with Jamie Notter. When Millennials Take … [Read more...]
Measuring the Impact of Your Nonprofit Program
A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. That's … [Read more...]
Two Must Read Reports on Nonprofit Capacity Building
Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: "Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together," from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and "Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity" from GEOfunders. This post summarizes gems from both reports. While the reports are guides to funders, if you do work as a capacity builder, you will find some useful insights for your practice. . Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together This … [Read more...]
How To Make Meetings Work for Your Nonprofit (whether you are sitting,standing, or walking!)
[slideshare id=44836927&doc=finalwebinar2-150218101244-conversion-gate02] Last week, I co-presented a Guidestar webinar with Andrea Kihlstedt on the topic of healthy and productive meetings who talked about the basics for making meetings highly effective. I spoke about standing and walking meetings. This post shares some reflections and additional resources about both topics. Productive Meetings We all have lived through that awful conference call or equally horrendous in person meeting. … [Read more...]
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