The job search is over! You have an offer in hand, and you are the bees’ knees! They chose you above everyone else, so you must be really good. Was it your perfect resume, your flawless networking or your stellar interviewing skills? It was probably all three as...
Is Collaboration the Right Strategy for You as an Organizational Leader?
Last week, I facilitated a meeting between senior leaders of industry and a professional association to explore the topic of collaboration. For the session, I defined successful collaboration as knowing how to respect personal boundaries and how to break down conceptual and organizational ones. I discovered collaboration is a fluid concept taking many forms:
To err is human – but take steps that move you toward, not away from, your destination.
Is there a connection between the oil spill seeping inexorably across the Gulf of Mexico and the wild gyrations of the stock market last week? I think there is. For me, the link is that we human beings have a dangerous tendency to over-reach ourselves only to suffer...
What’s in Your Manual?: Nonprofit Employee Handbooks
While the very smallest nonprofit organizations may not find it necessary, any organization with more than one or two employees should consider creating a written handbook outlining non-contractual employment terms and work conditions.
Executive Transitions – Be Careful What You Wish For
Sometimes themes emerge in my work. This week’s is the following interesting observation: The long dreamed of promotion or the eagerly awaited job, once achieved, often turns out more troublesome than anticipated. Can some people never be satisfied? Or, is there something deeper to it? And, can anything be done to avoid falling into a hole once what was anticipated is now reality?
Paying Attention to Turnover in the Nonprofit Sector
"Where are they going to go?" "They're lucky to have a job." These are, unfortunately, actual statements I've heard in the past year from nonprofit managers offered as rationales for not taking steps to advance human resources practices within their organizations....