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Winning Teams On the Football Field and the Workplace

Teams, teams, teams. Whether you love-em or loathe-em, you’ll have to learn to live, not only with them, but within them. You leadership will depend on it. Here are five strategies for building and nurturing a winning team on the football field and in the workplace. 1. Manage by adultery. It’s a term coined by …

What’s Your Career Success IQ?

There are three kinds of people! Those who make it happen; Those who let it happen; Those who are surprised by what’s happened! How well are you making it happen in your career? To make it happen starts with taking a hard look at how well you are managing your career in today’s very changing …

Tips on How to Conduct Interviews for Program Evaluation (Part 2)

Tip #3: Use trained interviewers who are able to build rapport Effective interviewing is both an art and a science and takes training and lots of practice! As I mentioned in my previous post, interviewers need to think quickly on their feet. This is important because they need to “go with the flow” so it …

What Do They Do With My Contributions??

Some time ago, I got a note from a reader asking, pretty much, that question: My question to you is — I have donated to a small organization, for a year, in my town to help poor children. I have never received an explanation on how the money is used. Should I expect that and …

J is for Joy, Jobs and Jagger

J is for the pure Joy of presenting. How often we view presenting as a chore, something to be worried over, gotten though, and sometimes frightened by. The truth of it is, if we can get into the moment, presentations can be nearly effortless and even joyful.

Crisis Management During Hard Times

[Editor’s note: Today we bring you a special guest post by our multi-cultural colleague, Carlos Victor Costa, that takes a hard look at the Spanish royal family’s most recent crisis] Crisis Management During Hard Times: Lessons from the King and the Elephants Once upon a time there was a very happy Kingdom with a much …

Project Producing: My Way

I am always talking about bringing in training from the outside, not just a vendor but from another occupation or profession. As most of you may know I have a theatre background as well as one in training and psychology. My latest brainstorm in the area of theatre is to develop a community theatre based …

Polish Your Communication and Fundraising Skills with Your Strategic Plan

Many nonprofits just don’t communicate why they are worthy of a donor’s gift very well. Your strategic plan should help you identify your strengths and opportunities. The planning exercises will help you frame stronger key messages. Having fundraising be an issue to be addressed in your strategic planning will make sure that communications about your mission, goals and specific plans are a key output item from your plan.

Website Design and SEO

Search engines all have an algorithm that determines what the site is about, and which words (keywords) describe that. Generally, Search Engines place emphasis on the first 200 words, Headings, Subheads, bolded, italicized and underlined words.

CFC and Planning for the Fall, Part I

It’s now spring, which is an interesting time for charities in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), because this is when the overlap of getting the results from the fall campaign and preparing for this fall’s solicitation period occurs. Even though the CFC solicitation periods occur each fall, the books on one year’s campaign don’t close …