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Paying Attention to Turnover in the Nonprofit Sector

by Joe Brown | May 5, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Management

“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...

What Happens when a Volcano Rocks your World?

by Fredia Woolf | Apr 30, 2010 | Advice, Job Seekers

My last blog, “In Praise of the Simple Life,” portrayed a state of mellowness and contemplative calm. How sad that such a balanced stance does not seem sustainable. Having thought I found the “answers” to dealing with the stresses and strains of work and life, let me...

A Look at Nonprofit IT Staffing

by Joe Brown | Apr 27, 2010 | Featured, Management

My post last week explored some of the challenges facing fundraising professionals and their employers. This week, we’ll take a look at current staffing trends in another important function that has traditionally received less attention in nonprofit settings....

Development in Demand: Challenges Facing Fundraising Professionals and Employers

by Joe Brown | Apr 20, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers, Management

For the vast majority of the country’s more than 1.2 million registered 501(c)(3) organizations, the development function, and therefore development professionals, has always been of critical importance. Today, while the profession itself faces increased demands...

In Praise of the Simple Life

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...

Human Resources Maturity and the Three P’s, Part 2

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...

Human Resources Maturity and the Three P’s, Part 1

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...

Salary Ranges, Part 2: Anatomy of a Range

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...

Salary Ranges, Part 1: Why Ranges?

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...

Influencing – Getting Better at a Key 21st Century Skill

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...

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