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A newsletter and private membership so 1st-time Executive Directors lead confidently, exiting Executive Directors leave well, and Boards effectively manage transition. Using currently available resources and no ongoing heroics necessary.
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Is Your Workday Building the Nonprofit Organization Your Mission Needs? (opens the original)
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NASA just selected a new space telescope to move into development. PRIMA is expected to launch in 2033 to look at parts of space that other telescopes have trouble seeing. Scientists hope it will help them understand how planets form, how galaxies and black holes grow, and how water and other materials needed for life developed across the universe.You likely have a future vision you’re working towards as well. Even though future planning can be tricky in our nonprofit sector, because the future
October AMA. Everyone brings their questions to you. Where do you bring yours? (opens the original)
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Leading a nonprofit organization often means living at the intersection of urgency and purpose. There is always something that needs your attention, and almost always something else competing for that attention. I created Go Live to give us 45 minutes each month to think about how we can lead with greater focus and impact, while also building a workday … Read more
Would You Apply for Your Current Executive Director Job? (opens the original)
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I don’t mean the mission, the people, or even being an Executive Director. I mean your actual job. The one you did last week.The Board relationship. The decisions that came to you. How much control you had over your own calendar. The things that couldn’t move until you weighed in. Whether you could have disappeared for a few days without checking your phone.Apologies for a bit of a weighty question for Monday morning. Building Movement Project has been watching what happens around the Executive
Who Gets the Call? Who Gets the Email? Who Reads the Announcement? (opens the original)
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A lot of what makes an Executive Director’s workday so full doesn’t arrive as one big organizational problem. Instead, things simply accumulate. Relationships, knowledge, access. Relationships determine how we communicate with people during a leadership transition.And because of that, you don’t need to be thinking about leaving to get something really useful out of thinking through the communications side of succession planning. In fact, some of the best benefits are available while you’re still
Your Next Executive Director Does Not Need to Be Great at Everything (opens the original)
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Does this sound familiar? The topic of succession planning comes up at the Board meeting. Someone says, “They really need to be good with people.” Another adds, “And a strong fundraiser.”“They need to understand our community.”“Definitely be strategic.”“And great with the Board.”Here’s where nonprofit job descriptions tend to get out of hand. First, because it’s typically started too early in the process and second, we identify everything the organization needs to become better at and hand the e
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