Book Review by Michael D. Kogutek Ernest Stambouly is a colleague and friend of mine at ECofOC. He is a dynamite coach who delivers passion, innovation and change in his coaching process. If you are looking for a book discussing the conventional and traditional ideas of change in individuals and organizations, this book is not […]
Improving Board Governance: Part 2
The Importance of Effective Board Meetings Board meetings can be comprised of dedicated supporters, and/or highly trained professionals – all committed to the cause, but with different skill sets for good governance. Part 1 of this series named the three ‘mindsets’ that Boardsource likes for adequate governance of a nonprofit. They were: Financial Insight, Strategic […]
Management and Leadership Skills
Would you be interested in quickly learning how you might get better results from your nonprofit management and leadership efforts? NonprofitReady.org can deliver some ideas relevant to your interests whenever you are ready, and do it quickly and at no cost to you. Here are some of the most popular of the 47 NonprofitReady.org […]
In Coaching and Managing, the Question May Be More Important Than the Answer!
When I am done coaching a client, I usually convene the evaluation committee in my head to assess the session. The first criteria is, did I ask good questions that led to the critical thinking process. Recently I came across a book devoted to the subject of asking the right questions in coaching […]
Improving Board Governance: Part 1
Three Important Precepts – or ‘mind sets’ How many of us as Board members go to meetings, approve the minutes, the budget, listen to program staff or a video on a success story (that matches our mission), exchange pleasantries, and go home feeling quite satisfied that we have fulfilled our volunteer commitment? Is that […]
No-cost Nonprofit Training Opportunities
NonprofitReady.org (NPRO) is a website of 43 interactive E-learning curriculums and 385 online classes and videos on a wide variety of nonprofit best practices, all at no cost to any user. I took one of the curriculums (Management Essentials) and was impressed with the content and interactive presentation. More importantly, sixty thousand people have […]
Change Leadership
What are you as a leader doing to adapt to our fast paced world.? The skills that got you where you are might not be enough to ensure your success in the future. Recent studies by Accenture and others have revealed new focus areas for the successful managers of the future: They must […]
Listening: The Strategies to Hear What’s NOT Being Said
Have you ever left a conversation and said to yourself, there is more to this than was said. The art of good listening is hearing those unsaid thoughts. How does that take place? A recent article I read by David Grossman, a communications expert[1] caused me to reflect on a team meeting […]
Management Essentials
This is a report on my experience with the no-cost Management Essentials curriculum at NonprofitReady.org The NonprofitReady.org website contains over 400 trainings on nonprofit leadership, fundraising, board governance, program and project management, marketing and PR, volunteer management, administration and operations, HR, etc. Most of the curriculums were developed by Cegos, an international $200M developer […]
Modern Technologies Hold a Promising Outlook for the Nonprofit
Young entrepreneurs are exhibiting an affinity to businesses endowed with human qualities, the type that fuels the missions of non-profit organizations, qualities antithetical to cultures found in for-profit big business: sharing, cooperative, generous, transparent, ethical, open, collaborative, democratic, equitable and inclusive. A growing sense of solidarity and consensus-forming amongst young entrepreneurs is giving rise […]