| By Lisa Bodell, www.forbes.com | Have you heard the one about a weekly meeting that wasted 300,000 hours a year? The one that isn’t a joke at all but an actual statistic from Bain & Company? While the number is nauseating, it’s not particularly surprising. From my interactions with leaders and employees around the world, meetings are a […]
Seven Ways To Build Trust With Donors
| By Forbes Nonprofit Council, www.forbes.com | All organizations must establish trust with the people who give them money. This is a relatively easy task for a for-profit business — they simply give the customer a high-quality product or service in exchange for their payment. Nonprofits, on the other hand, must build donor trust based solely on […]
Want to Be a Stronger Leader? Use this Map to Improve Your Alliances and Relationships
| By Ellen Petry Leanse, www.inc.com | Relationships and alliances help you build momentum and move closer to your goals, They influence your outlooks and attitudes about what’s happening around you. They even affect your longevity, resistance to disease, and mental wellbeing. Yet in the hard work of building a business we often forget to be intentional about the allies […]
Everything You Need to Know About Great Leadership
| By Lolly Daskal, www.inc.com | Effective leadership can be thought of as a set of qualities and skills. Different leaders may have different makeups, different strengths and challenges. But there are certain traits that lie at the core of leadership–the qualities that all great leaders share. Developing the elements that make up leadership is a lifelong process. Start with these […]
The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do to Build Emotional Intelligence
| By Jennifer Guttman, www.inc.com | The most important factor in attempting to cultivate emotional intelligence is the importance of listening and not talking. When people feel like they are having difficulty with a social skill, their insecurities bring on talking. So, when people are insecure about something, they tend to talk a lot. The most important […]
Have You Failed Well Recently?
| By Dan Ryan, www.forbes.com | Most of us like to support or follow a winner. In the world of sports, teams like the New York Yankees, the New England Patriots and others have a solid following because of their history of success. In the world of business, success is also sought by many, but there is […]
Want to Be a Great Leader? Become a Great Identifier
| By Jeff Haden, www.inc.com | Once upon a time I was a member of the most productive crew in the department, which meant we were considered to be the best crew, because numbers were everything. But we didn’t need a Jobs or Bezos or Sandberg or (pick your personal epitome of effective leadership) to get us […]
3 Mistakes You’re Making When You Give Constructive Feedback
| By Kat Boogaard, www.fastcompany.com | Ultimately, your goal is to correct a behavior and help that specific person become better at his or her job. And, in an ideal world, you’d be able to do so in a way that didn’t make you seem overly aggressive or condescending (while also avoiding any tears or blow-up arguments). […]