What Does a Healthy Board Look Like? (Nonprofit and For-Profit)
There has been an extensive amount of research and sharing of opinions about what makes…
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10 Benefits of Managing Ethics in the Workplace
Many people are used to reading or hearing of the moral benefits of attention to…
Business Laws & Ethics
10 Myths About Business Ethics
Business ethics in the workplace is about prioritizing moral values for the workplace and ensuring…
Business Laws & Ethics
What is Business Ethics?
Let’s Start With “What is ethics?” Simply put, ethics involves learning what is right or…
Business Laws & Ethics
What is Strategic Planning?
Simply put, strategic planning is clarifying the overall purpose and desired results of an organization,…
Business Planning
Nonprofit and For-Profit Boards — a Comparison
Our firm regularly gets calls, asking about the differences between for-profit and nonprofit Boards. Although…
Business Laws & Ethics
Coaching Your Top Performers
A guest post by Terrence Seamon I recently watched a documentary on TV about the…
Leadership Skills
Board Leadership, Bold and Brave
This is a guest post from Steven R Roberts Non-Profit Boards, charities, foundations must fight…
Business Laws & Ethics
Are You Doing Strategic Planning? Probably
How One Typical Facilitator (Mistakenly) Concluded the Client Wasn’t Doing Strategic Planning I got a…
Business Planning
Succession Planning: Is It a Staffing Matter? No
Succession planning is one of the most important topics in nonprofit capacity building. That wasn’t…
Organization Development
How “Disconnected Conversations” Can Kill Consulting and Collaboration
Here’s an Example of a Disconnected Conversation A couple of weeks ago, a friend of…
Consulting & Freelancing
Meatloaf or Tartare?
I recently encountered an organization that’s on the cusp of a big change … a…
Organization Development
Different Domains of Leadership and Skills Needed in Each
We often generalize leadership and skills to be the same traits needed all the time…
Leadership Skills
7 Options for “Success” in Consulting Projects
As a consultant, your perception of project “success” is the basis from which your client…
Consulting & Freelancing
How to Improve a Board: Understanding a Board’s System
Understanding a Board’s System: Key of Improving Recent Breakthrough in Development: Systems Thinking One of…
Business Laws & Ethics
The Organic Model of Strategic Planning
What Is an Organic Approach? Organization and management sciences today are placing a great deal…