The best gifts you can give
From referrals to feedback, if we really understand people’s interests and potential, the best gifts we can give them are often free
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Capability
Commercial understanding
I find it bizarre that a lot of people, including plenty who work in the sector, still see the idea of charities “becoming more commercial” as somehow distasteful or immoral. I can only think it speaks to both an extraordinarily naive view of charity, and an equally poor level of commercial understanding. Because, to paraphrase
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Rethinking power
The phrase “sharing power” has huge traction but it’s often misused and misleading. Here’s why we need to start rethinking power.
Raising performance
For any group of people, the first step to improving performance is always to align on expectations; to explicitly agree what good looks like
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Preparing for the future
If we’re serious about making the world a better place, these are the building-blocks charities need to start preparing for the future
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Critical competencies
There’s a new set of critical competencies we need all our people to develop, and their absence is a growing source of stress for leaders
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Opening up to ideas
The power of the outsider perspective… I received a piece of feedback from a non-profit client years ago that remains burned into my memory, even to this day. Or at least, a version of it is. The client had thanked me, going on to remark that, because I’d not spent years “getting steeped” in their
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Asserting your value
It’s a common misconception that in order to collaborate well with others, you need to “be nicer”. When in reality, what’s usually required is to get far better at asserting your value. One of the most enduring models for explaining the difference between being nice and actually collaborating is something called the Thomas-Kilmann matrix, named
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Growing commercial income
Growing commercial income seems to be back on the agenda for a lot of nonprofits, so here are a few things you should know.
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Building momentum
It’s easy to get so fixated on the challenge, that we think about “getting through it” rather than building momentum from it.