by Fredia Woolf | Apr 19, 2010 | Advice, Management
This week, I invite you to join me on my travels. I have returned to the land of my birth, South Africa, where I am visiting my aging parents. I confess that it was with some trepidation that I agreed to go and spend a week with them out in the bushveld. My cell...
by Joe Brown | Apr 16, 2010 | Advice, Management
In part 1, I outlined a model of human resources maturity among nonprofit organizations based on the clear delineation of position, person and performance. I also examined the first two phases of this maturity including their implications for the design and...
by Joe Brown | Apr 12, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Management
During my years working as a consultant to nonprofits, I have observed three basic phases of organizations’ human resources maturity. This maturity can be defined in terms of how much delineation exists between position, person and performance. Each phase has...
by Joe Brown | Apr 8, 2010 | Advice, Management, Recruiters
In my previous post, I made a case for the use of salary ranges as the foundation of a formal compensation program for nonprofit organizations. Particularly for organizations experiencing or have experienced significant growth, the use of salary ranges can go a long...
by Joe Brown | Apr 6, 2010 | Management
In a recent post, compensation consultant Ann Bares questions whether salary ranges, long a staple of compensation programs among America’s companies and organizations, are still a useful tool given the relatively slow pace of salary annual growth during the...
by Fredia Woolf | Apr 2, 2010 | Advice, Job Seekers, Management
Whether you are president of a board, a senior executive or a job seeker, you need to be good at influencing others. We live in a complex world where there are limits to our authority; no matter how senior we are, the old hierarchies and command and control...
by Joe Brown | Mar 30, 2010 | Management
“Why?” “Because I said so.” This exchange, perhaps a staple of parent/child relationships, has no place in management. In fact, communicating to employees the why of their work — the context, value and relevance of their work — is...
by Fredia Woolf | Mar 26, 2010 | Advice, Job Seekers
Customizing your career used to be necessary for career changers and candidates transitioning between the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. But, in the current job market, where there is no cookie cutter candidate and candidate supply in most fields exceeds...
by Joe Brown | Mar 23, 2010 | Management
“Managers are commonly ill-equipped to understand the dynamics of their compensation costs, never mind monitor and control them.” I was struck by this statement by Chuck Csizmar in a recent post on the Compensation Cafe blog. Chuck was making a case for...
by Fredia Woolf | Mar 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Boston Business Journal interviewed a number of prominent women leaders asking them to reflect on their career paths and what they learned along the way. These women work in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and their observations could be useful...
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